But they were already showing promising signs of recovery in the second half of 2013 after Powell replaced Ian Millward, and the former Great Britain stand-off has made a series of sound signings in his own low-profile, common-sense image.
Thus contemporary process philosophy not only holds out the promise of an integrated metaphysics that can join our common sense and scientific images of the world.
The answer, Mr. Sweeny said, was to invoke the heritage of the brand, which dates to the California gold rush, by describing 501 jeans as "the uniform of common sense," while celebrating the images and voices of contemporary youth.
At the University of Brasília there is a lively center in general philosophy of science, where Paulo Abrantes (who earned a doctorate from Paris-Sorbonne) works on "Compatibilism", trying to coordinate the view we have of ourselves with common sense and the current scientific image.
It's just part intuition, part common sense, part chemistry and part image.
It's common sense, backed up by research: images of strong emotions were significantly, specifically and repeatedly evoked in the viewer, and in the broader sense, both happiness and sadness have been shown to circulate through social networks in a manner similar to disease.
So Leeds loves John Lewis and John Lewis loves Leeds, a romance that has blossomed into a constructional fancy that, if it belies the brand's image of sober common sense, speaks eloquently of its status.
"Watch out for pictures," Gauguin said at the end of the tale, giving it a moral that seems double-edged: beware the power of romantic images to banish common sense; but attend to it, too, and relish the sorcery.
Common sense should also be exercised when people are exchanging intimate images, he said.
