(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).
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.
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.
At that height the jet-stream winds are stronger and blow more consistently than ground-level winds, and they carry up to a hundred times more energy.
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.
With consistently strong ground-ball rates, it was entirely possible Buchholz was a pitcher who could prevent runs better than his peripherals would suggest, and with a good pedigree at age 27, there was also a real chance he would make a leap.
