The South has a lot of outsider art, perhaps because it has always had its fair share of eccentrics, but also because of a strong influence of religion and other experiences which entailed more outside than inside in terms of acceptance by the formal art community.
With its astounding inventory, and because it has always been the sort of cozy refuge that invites lingering, Tender Buttons has been a button mecca over the years for in-the-know collectors, craft types, sartorial perfectionists, celebrities, oddity seekers and not a few tourists.
Variety, the "show-biz bible" that celebrates its 100th anniversary this month, likes the verb to ankle because it has always reveled in the jargon of the industry it covers.
It survives because it has always been there since 1790, anyway and is therefore inviolate.
A Skempton piece is unmistakable, partly because it has always been like it is.
"It's not just because it has always been like that," Mr. Hirt said.
Several historians told me that Rwanda is unusual in Africa because it has always been tightly controlled.
When considering the use of any statistical test fully censored, uncensored, or otherwise avoid the temptation to use a statistical method simply because it has always been used.
This is mainly because it has always preferred to stay in the background, avoiding a high public profile.
Vienna has contributed so vitally to the Western mainstream just because it has always been somewhat isolated from it.
There are some who say that Islam finds difficulty modernising because it has always been a religion of conquest.
