They could choke on prunes!" "Of course," I calmly explained, hoping I would not be fired as a caretaker for my darling grandsons, "I didn't give them whole prunes or prunes with pits.
"Of course," Trott says calmly.
Perhaps realising this, the president had rowed back a bit by mid-week.Mr Obama's best course is to explain, calmly and patiently, why bailing out banks and honouring contracts are necessary evils.
But "quietly" and "calmly," are, of course, essential to the point.
[Here's a link to a book passage about Aerosol Age and Rowland.] Rowland calmly stayed the course, working to convince everyone from Margaret Thatcher to Al Gore to reporters from hundreds of news outlets of what was at stake.
And the brutal charade for government ministers is that right now they have to perpetuate the illusion that they are not panicking, that they are calmly pursuing a course of action that will be effective.
Water imagery courses across her globe, sometimes calmly but also cataclysmically.
The problems come when scientists advocate, be it calmly or shrilly, a course of action.
And then of course the band came on and calmly took over the situation.
French children could sit calmly through a three-course meal; Bean was throwing food by the time the apéritifs arrived.
