Go to bed, roll around a lot in your sleep, and wake up with that messy, "I don't give a damn" hair style.
My response is that age doesn't matter a damn if the style is right.
Only someone who had barely glanced at Ulysses would damn it for "pure style".
Yet nor is it right in Corbynesque style to damn capitalism with a reflex call for stronger unions and public ownership.
In his "Tonight Show" set, after a bunch of likable, funny jokes (about being pro-ugliness, for example), Apatow closed with his Cosby bit, which patiently, intelligently, and powerfully used Cosby's own style to damn him.
If ever a style were damned out of its own mouth, it was this.
Since then, of course, a gold-encrusted, damn-the-torpedoes visual style has evolved on its own, typically dominated by gargantuan Easter Island Oscars.
It permits me to stockpile thermals and tights (try Marks & Spencer's Warm Toes Tights – the merino wool soles are unbelievable) and slide my pac-a-mac into my handbag, style be damned.
They're just Big Damn Heroes, Buffy Summers-style, and no matter how much life sucks, if they can't find the will to carry on, the rest of us are pretty much screwed.
I am opposed to having the eagle puts its talons on any other land;" and the impeccable William James, father of philosophical Pragmatism, fulminated Jeremiah-Wright-style: "God damn the U.S. for its vile conduct" in the Philippines, as James put it in 1903.
