But Mr. Moore does not appreciate being bothered himself, as Alan Edelstein discovered.
But as one of Eliot's early critics, Leslie Stephen, put it: "The question will intrude, What would have become of 'Ivanhoe' if Scott had bothered himself about the possible retardation of Easter?" On the other hand, I also reread "The Mill on the Floss," which is a delight, and a marvel of insight into the consciousness of a small child.
He knows that WH Auden never wore underpants, but he doesn't bother himself with the poetry.
When Sir Tim Hunt referred to his "trouble with girls", the joint-winner of the 2001 Nobel prize for medicine got into a little spot of bother himself.
He has probably never had to bother himself with such bureaucracy, because he has "people" who look after all the boring bits of life, such as train tickets, car insurance, house purchasing and getting a new ironing board.
In fact, his mother-in-law is seriously ill and he is waiting for a progress report on the phone, and he has been in a bit of bother himself recently.
Here, you think, staring at his oaken frame and hearing the gentle but implacable burr of his voice — for Neeson, like Sean Connery, need not bother himself with accents — is the evidence that the movie has sought.
Was his stature at Penn State so mythic and his mission so vaunted that he didn't think he needed to bother himself with the possibility of child sexual abuse — the bureaucrats could surely deal with it — and didn't worry that passing the buck might come back to haunt him?
What Mr Cameron seems to be running is not so much a front-porch campaign – the American tactic of staying at home and waiting for supporters to come cap in hand – as a back-yard campaign, in which he ostentatiously busies himself with local bread-and-butter issues in a venue near you, rather than bothering himself with larger global questions.
Mr. Romney, unlike some other sitting governors Mr. Pawlenty, Sarah Palin of Alaska, Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Haley Barbour of Mississippi doesn't have to bother himself with such irritants as a pesky state legislature, a recession or the daily attention of a statehouse press corps.
She cited the example of Marguerite-Louise, adding that the Pope did not bother himself to machinate a reconciliation.
