Locals use the fabrics for wrapping wine bottles and presents (for the constant gift-giving), and they can easily double as handkerchiefs and napkins.
North will regale its clients with its fabled farm-to-table fare, and what Mr. Mancini called "constant gifts from the chef" — "a little celery soup with caviar, a little bit of house-cured salmon with crème fraîche, a little lobster salad, things that are a little decadent".
In a treatment with constant group endowment rather than constant winner endowment, the predominance of 'fixed total sacrifice' behavior is replaced by 'fixed relative gift' behavior.
In Black Rock City, the highly visible constant stream of gift-giving not only reassures you that others are cooperating, but also motivates you to pay these favours forward.
"As the center of our family, our mother's unimpeachable integrity, fierce independence, and constant love were gifts that profoundly shaped our lives and the lives of so many who knew her".
Alan Moorehead records that during the stalemate one old Ottoman batman was regularly permitted to hang his platoon's washing on the barbed wire without attracting fire and that there was a "constant traffic" of gifts being thrown across no-man's land: dates and sweets from the Ottoman side and cans of beef and cigarettes from the Allied side.
Victor Hugo told the Emperor: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you are the grandson of Marcus Aurelius", and Alexandre Herculano called him: "A Prince whom the general opinion holds as the foremost of his era because of his gifted mind, and due to the constant application of that gift to the sciences and culture".
Her forty year marriage was a rare gift of constant love.
And because one of her many gifts was the gift of constant invitation, of being the friend who shows up, who never fails to come through, she was, inexhaustibly, an influence greater than she knew.
My drumming friend Barney praises the Ramones for Tommy's nifty wrist work at such a constant tempo but the gift of the hi-hat is really in the detail.
I feel that an essential part of this great gift of constant change is to embrace all of the complexities that come with the unknown, and continue to appreciate them every day.
