This is a challenging thesis, presented with a masterly array of sources across a busy century, at once thought-provoking and thoroughly informed; the prose is fluent and zestful, and the arguments are constructed with a fine level of critical observation.
Everyone's too busy talking at once, loudest of all being Grandma in the midst of recalling the shore dinner in tedious detail: "For six bucks you'd get a shrimp cocktail, clam chowder, a green salad with sliced tomato and onion".
Despite the challenge of making multiple changes to their already-busy routines at once, those who began changing diet and exercise habits at the same time were most likely to meet national guidelines for exercise — 150 minutes per week — and nutrition: five to nine servings of fruit and vegetables daily, and keeping calories from saturated fats at 10percentt or less of their total intake.
Heirloom tomatoes, sweet corn and watermelon garnishes were still on the menu, but a fall-spiced breeze was coming through the windows, open to a tree-shrouded corner of Prince and Sullivan Streets that felt both busy and secluded at once.
Go and talk to the local taxi company: they know when we're busy, when we're quiet". Keeping a site with the capacity to film two blockbusters at once busy will be Warner Bros' challenge.
"SeNSATE" is at once busy and thin; for a work that encourages a wandering eye, Ms. Ahern doesn't give us nearly enough things to look at.
When our attention is divided, for instance, and we're busy with several things at once, time seems to pass by much more swiftly.
The results, like the memory tricks Milo performs for money, are at once busy and empty, a mere gloss on the real thing.
The Messiah, though he was supposedly only one man, seemed to be busy fighting several battles at once, in the name of different causes.
