He spent nearly a quarter-century at the Washington Post, and I remember him, back when I was in college, as a guy on television panels sometimes with a winning presence and decent insights.
Niles and his brother, Frasier, both practicing psychiatrists, might be expected to have some practical insight into decent relationships, but in fact both are divorced from horrible women -- the frighteningly deadpan Lilith in Frasier's case, the invisible shrew Maris in Niles's.
The answer is not really, but it does manage to fire off a handful of decent jokes and a few sneaky insights before losing its nerve and collapsing into incoherence.
It's not an apology a viewer seeks; it's insight into what three articulate and decent Arab-Americans think and feel in their innermost selves.
However, each brain gives her an insight into its owner's life, so she does the decent thing and helps the police solve their murders.
Bellamy's debut was cautiously welcomed on Twitter, where the former Chelsea midfielder Jody Morris described his performance as "decent" while the Gloucester prop Paul Doran Jones declared he was "loving" the "real insight" the former striker displayed.
He thinks Labour will split, "when the Corbynistas get around to deselecting some of the decent MPs", and says he would happily share with those MPs his insights from Clacton about winning byelections.
The best insight into this whole saga came from Stewart herself, who, in between starring in decent independent movies and winning acting awards and fronting Chanel campaigns, took time to refuse to add grist to the mill.
"It was a decent end to a bad movie," said Jesse Toprak, the vice president for industry trends and insights at TrueCar.com, a site that tracks sales and pricing.
He has insight and empathy and knows how to fly the Tardis, and he also made a decent fist of ruling "firmly but wisely" in 12th-century Constantinople (a comic strip or audio play of this off-screen storyline, please).
