The next frontier will be a wave of ground-scraping mega-buildings looking to gobble up our streets, making an ever more privatised, polarised city, all conveniently swept indoors.
If taken up as the silver bullet to endless waiting lists, there's a very real risk it could sow the seeds for a future of cheaply built, meanly scaled, less stable housing that can be conveniently swept away at a moment's notice.
Lots of claims are being made, but not surprisingly, some of the knottier issues are being conveniently swept under the rug.
In the early 1970s, nature was conveniently swept under the rug.
This history is simply and conveniently swept under the rug by Morgan.
His administration has so much to forfeit if it conveniently sweeps under the rug Maliki's culpability in the outrages that have befallen his nation.
What this also means is that the underlying issues that have been conveniently swept under the rug rise to the surface; shadow elements are revealed and, when they're not addressed consciously, they come out in toxic ways.
But does anyone really want to see, 25 years from today, the centennial of the Golden Gate Bridge celebrated in the shadow of hundreds of additional deaths, of bodies unceremoniously plucked from the bay, or, to the private relief of some among us, conveniently swept out to sea? Notes: 1. John Bateson, The Final Leap, p. 9, University of California Press, 2012.
"Maybe K.D. Lang will do a concert in Clark -- conveniently during sweeps!" Hollywood is a small town, too, but not one you'd ever call nice.
So NBC's decision to throw itself a televised party for its 75th anniversary may have been the easiest one the network has made in 75 years -- especially since the celebration can serve as the centerpiece to an entire month (conveniently a ratings sweeps month) of nostalgic looks at highlights of NBC history.
