And fourth, our society is currently gripped by a pervasive ideology of work.
(Vaizey also weighed in on the hot debate currently gripping the front row. He suggests: watch Downton Abbey, record Spooks).
But there is now a little more interest in events at this Norwegian university town, where pitch darkness currently grips at lunchtime.
Now, he said, the financial crisis that currently grips the nation's commercial aviation industry means that local companies will need to replace revenues from that sector.
With America currently gripped by the story of alleged misdeeds at Goldman Sachs, it may be that the Enron story seems like old news.
Cathey sees Outcast as a direct response to the zealous, god-fearing climate that has currently gripped the US and "throws a real demonic entity into the mix".
The same is true of the violence, tension or oppression currently gripping the Muslim world from Iraq and Iran, though Egypt, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
One grizzled political hack, Robert Novak, says that "in 44 years of campaign-watching" he has not seen anything like the Bush-hatred that is currently gripping America.
P.S. Interesting that the world's most famous Belgian is Francophone; earlier this year, in the magazine, Ian Buruma reported on the crisis of politics, language, and identity that's currently gripping Belgium.
Now an arena that was never full – not even for the Stanley Cup finals of more than a decade ago – before the arrival of superstar Alexander Ovechkin is currently gripped by hysteria.
The decision of one half of the original reggae pop group to publicly support Corbyn in the leadership campaign attracted some mockery because of the parallels between the band's bitter split and the divisions currently gripping the Labour party.
