Every week, I got a little deeper, hoping to find something.
Other teams may have profited of late from a more aggressive, smothering approach but Moyes had clearly determined his own side lack the dynamism to swarm into such a press and simply sat deeper hoping to survive.
In our preparation for this editorial we sought to dig deeper, hoping to undercover a trove of research that was overlooked in the English-language meta-analyses that would somehow balance the view.
It can only come with patience, dedication and a surrender to accessing an even deeper hope within.
But the Knicks' deepest hopes were always tied to James.
Since her clients are marriage-minded men who confided their deepest hopes, fears and turnoffs, she has rare access to the male mind.
When we debate economic policy, we are talking, after all, about the deepest hopes that carry us each along in the work we do... about all the things we wish for ourselves and for each other.
"You can share your deepest hopes and fears with a heavily armed psychopath for hours on end, " she says, complaining angrily that he nevertheless won't open up to her.
Palin has the opportunity to recast the 2008 election entirely — by proving that freshness and unpreparedness for office are not synonyms, and that Democrats do not have the corner on our broad, deep hopes for political revitalisation.
His best work, consequently, offers the odd spectacle of a man who knows that he is failing to realise his deepest hopes but is at his sharpest when analysing the shape that failure takes.
