But all of a sudden Britain's newspapers, the qualities included, have become seized with the notion that the old political commentator, at 64, is fast becoming the nation's latest sex symbol.
He became seized by the pipeline issue.
There are also encouraging signs that the party has finally become seized by urgency.
She and Mr. Arriaga said they became seized with a desire to apply their talents and time to something beyond retouching photographs and polishing advertising campaigns.
Just as the children of postwar America were starting to have their own children, they became seized with an intense nostalgia for the cultural signs and symbols that surrounded them in the 1950's.
"I mean, Adlai — " The crowd laughed again, briefly; then, in the ensuing quiet, McCarthy became seized by wave after wave of hysterical giggles, which Murrow and Friendly coolly held on screen until the last, painful spasm died away.
The diplomat added it has become "seized with the climate issue," said Stern.
Visitors prepare for a range of possibilities: if the drugs haven't taken effect, he becomes "akinetic", seized by tremors and stiffness.
LONDON — Every so often, a crime as lurid as it seems inexplicable becomes a bellwether, seized on by politicians to diagnose a broader social ailment and offer a cure cut from their ideological cloth.
In fact, if anything, they have become worse, having seized the opportunity presented by a recession to make more money from more people - which, it seems, they are now using to create an "acceptable" face to the public.
