Consider, for instance, his speculation about housekeeping as a metaphor for life: "In our daily sweeping and polishing, I could sense the perpetual fight against change, the doomed desire for the world to be constant, the struggle we make against death and decay".
Safety measures in Port Vila, including daily sweeping of the runway, were being monitored and captains had the final say on whether it was up to scratch before taking off, it said.
For years he made the sausages in his garden shed, and he combined this labour of love with being a night editor on the Daily Telegraph, sweeping in to work in a black cape "like a ruddy-cheeked vampire", one colleague said, with packed coolboxes of his produce to sell to hungry subs.
We are bombarded on a daily basis with sweeping extrapolations about the abstract "consumer": their attitudes towards climate change, their expectations of brands and businesses and their purchasing intentions.
In a classic case of unintended consequences, a process intended to produce unity, a strong candidate, and a compelling platform to take against President Bush has so far produced a campaign that many Democrats describe as strikingly harsh and marked more by daily bickering than sweeping themes or compelling new ideas on where to take the country.
Sometimes André assumes "traditionally male" domestic roles (e.g. taking out the garbage, household accounting) and sometimes his tasks are less so (e.g. remembering birthdays, general daily tidying up, sweeping the floors).
Mahipati, in his work Pandurangastrotra, narrates how Vithoba helped female saints like Janabai in their daily chores, such as sweeping the house and pounding the rice.
Most participants described daily activities such as sweeping, vacuuming and washing clothes as physical activities, however a small number of participants were unsure whether such incidental activities were considered as physical activities.
Papers like Metro London are part of a new phenomenon -- the free daily newspaper -- that is sweeping European cities and is swiftly challenging the assumption that the Internet generation has all but given up on reading newspapers.
She has a busy daily routine, collecting water and sweeping her family's compound in the morning, going to TDC Primary School Masaka to attend classes, then fetching water for the classrooms.
We'll be reporting from the Ram Lila grounds in Delhi to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, tracking the triumphs and frustrations of daily desi life and the changes sweeping the nation.
