But, aided by caffeine, she's swiftly into her stride, vigorously debating the colourful contours of her extraordinary life – from Native American rights campaigner and protest music icon to hit songwriter, amateur astrologer, teaching co-ordinator and electronic music pioneer.
After a year in which the Megaupload dispute has become one of the most prominent and colourful talking points in the debate over "internet freedom", Dotcom himself has, he says, had his eyes opened.
The committee debate also heard colourful language from the Texas Republican John Cornyn, who said there were also national security concerns – as some of those coming across the Mexican border were "wearing turbans".
European debates can be colourful.
Therefore, this eponym encapsulates many diverse facets of eponymous medical terms – a colourful history punctuated by controversy and debate, a credible scientific understanding regarding its aetiology that has ushered an alternative name, and also reflects flexibility of medical community towards acceptance of an eponymous nomenclature.
His life is the subject of numerous colourful and exaggerated stories, many of which are debated by historians.
Dawkins, and his colourful disciple, Christopher Hitchens, have set the agenda for today's debate.
The current debate is the latest episode in a story so dramatic and colourful it could inspire a book, a feature film or an opera.
I am an admirer of the RI's fabulously colourful founder, Count Rumford, and have been a regular visitor in recent years to lectures, debates, ministerial speeches, conferences, book groups, schools award ceremonies and even been interviewed there on camera.
He saw off a leadership challenge last year, and in an uncharacteristically colourful moment in this campaign he scornfully slapped down a Fianna Fail opponent during a television debate, telling him, "You're full of wind and spoof".
