Just a moment to nip and put the kettle on, go to the loo, feed the cats – all the things that can be conveniently fitted in round a normal ITV show.
But Chinese officials prefer to direct the world's attention away from that and to the brutal events at Gyantse in 1904, which conveniently fit into their master narrative for Tibetan and Chinese history.
At the time it felt as if everyone was writing variations on the same issues (visual pleasure blah blah blah) while using the same almost ritualistically recycled theories with the same types of films that conveniently fit those theories.
We signed up, at $12.50 a head, and worked our way along the main street, balancing a wineglass and plastic plate in one hand (the stem of the glass, conveniently, fitted into a slot in the plate, allowing a one-handed carry), an umbrella in the other.
Because it's built so high above gardens, with an uncontrolled tangle of jasmine at the window and much creaking of floorboards, it's quite easy to imagine I'm in a wooden hut swaying among the trees and conveniently fitted with bookshelves.
Both brothers can operate the new prefab smokehouse, which conveniently fits inside the old one; both brothers can do the other's work -- they have to, now, with each racking up doctors' visits and dentists' visits that come along with getting older.
Into this concept a belief in metempsychosis (transmigration of souls) can be conveniently fitted, for the idea that souls pass through a series of incarnations becomes more intelligible if the process is seen as being cyclical and in accordance with the pattern of time that apparently governs all the forms of being in this world.
SIR In order not to be guilty of the same "unintelligibility" that he criticises, Charlemagne should present facts as they are instead of repeating half-truths that conveniently fit in the point he is trying to make ("For your eyes only", 9th August 2007).
Feminine and masculine gender-norms, however, are problematic in that gendered behaviour conveniently fits with and reinforces women's subordination so that women are socialised into subordinate social roles: they learn to be passive, ignorant, docile, emotional helpmeets for men (Millett 1971, 26).
