Joffe reserves an especially toasty circle of hell for the declinists — the politicians, historians, economists and journalists who stoke such worries and continually declare America's demise.
They achieve this with a dour yet lavish palette, tactile but implacably workmanlike surfaces and a subtly perturbed sense of space in which seemingly flattened planes and shapes undergo shifts in tone and angle that continually declare their constructed, considered, carefully wrought artifice.
Since the current slowdown began, Wall Street prognosticators have continually declared that prosperity is just around the corner.
The first four games of the NBA Finals were fascinating, not necessarily works of art but vastly entertaining as the teams forged a 2-2 tie and ABC continually declared it a ratings bonanza.
They are continually filling in information; so, as McLuhan explained, "anybody whose appearance strongly declares his role and status in life is wrong for TV".
Benjamin never did join the Party, though he agonized over it, just as he continually postponed his often declared plans to learn Hebrew and move to Palestine.
As you declare and continually reinforce what you're hoping for, those from whom you're desiring it will start working toward it with such a focused effort that the ball should quickly start rolling toward the goal.
Apparently, they prefer to have the cell phone continually available, rather than declare their bedroom (or any other space) a cell phone free zone.
After the 1948 election debacle, he blithely declared, "We are continually experimenting and continually learning," and he contended that the public opinion poll was "one of the most useful instruments of democracy ever devised".
Although Mr. MacIntyre continually insists on the grave difficulties involved in judging among different theories, he ultimately slays his Gorgon and declares that such judgment is possible after all.
