When the sitcom débuted, it was based on Fey's experience as the first female head writer for "Saturday Night Live," but it quickly became something bigger, stranger, and bolder: a surreal machine capable of commenting on anything, from feminism and prismatic perspectives on race to national politics, reality television, and corporate culture — always from a New Yorker's P.O.V.
Three days earlier, he had embarrassed himself — if he is capable of embarrassment — by commenting on a recent SurveyUSA poll showing that he would beat Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head race.
If other characters' voices are occasionally too polished to be convincing, this criticism relates more to St Aubyn's intellect and sharpness: most of his characters are capable of arch comments and wry irony.
If our foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, is still capable of making any comment without inflaming an international crisis, he should also condemn unequivocally the police and state brutality meted out against peaceful protesters.
But imagine how impressive you'll sound when you can not only stammer out "Un verre de vin, s'il vous plaît", but are also capable of ordering a fine Bordeaux, commenting on its complexity of flavour and describing the time you visited the very vineyard where it was created.
The Home Secretary RK Singh commented: "We are capable of looking at the security of our own citizens.
"That Xi and Biden managed to keep their differences over the ADIZ out of the spotlight on Wednesday - there was no mention of it when the two spoke to reporters - was a sign that Beijing and Washington are indeed capable of managing their occasionally volatile ties," comments the China Daily.
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That Mary Shelley was capable of sharply turned and acerbic comment is incontrovertible.
"Chekhov was capable of casually tossing off deplorable comments in his letters, combined with a very modern anger against antisemitism.
Broadcasting regulator Ofcom, which received 11 complaints about the incident which aired in November, said that the comments were capable of causing "considerable offence".
