His work was consistently ground-breaking: Savage Beauty ably charted his exceptional tailoring, romantic ball gowns, and the extremes of fashionable styles uneasily tinged with frissons of sadomasochism, bestiality, death and decay.
Yet Ms. Meckseper consistently grounds her work in what she called "real political dilemmas" relating to our oil-dependent economy.
(I'm not including Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded, which contains lots of interesting ideas, but isn't all that consistently grounded in reality).
Jon Tenney took a problematic part — the F.B.I. agent Fritz Howard, whose oscillating feelings for Brenda Leigh could register as an artificial device for pumping up the emotional level — and managed to give a consistently grounded, at times intensely sympathetic performance.
As the work unpeels its visual and auditory layering into realms of the divine and sacred, it remains consistently grounded in Yoon's Korean-American identity and personal journey.
Greece, which has consistently lost ground on the world stage for letting the issue fester, consistently objected in the past on the grounds that FYROM will "possibly" stake a territorial claim to a northern area of Greece called Macedonia if the name is approved.
Not a single lineman, save for maybe rookie Adrian Clayborn, was able to consistently hold ground.
What might be the implications for Labour and for the city, where about 20% of Labour's total membership lives and where the party has consistently gained ground in recent years, notwithstanding the mayoralties of Boris Johnson?
Moreover, the Greens are a pro-Europe party that is consistently gaining ground in Germany, and elsewhere across the union, so it is too simplistic if not plain wrong to blame the Greek crisis for the CDU's slide in popularity – or for the SDP's climb to near parity with it.
Field observations indicate that current engineering practice does not consistently estimate ground water flows into unlined rock excavated tunnels due to various factors that analytical solutions do not take into account.
And it is well documented that the divide between the richest and poorest among us is increasing, with the middle class consistently losing ground.
