INCLEMENT FORD: "I am well used to being put in my place," Saul Bellow once wrote to the critic Roger Shattuck, forgiving him for some dinner party slight, "and I don't really mind when I can feel that I am in the hands of a dependable place-putter".
The chamber society was once viewed as dependable but stodgy, the place to go for Beethoven and Schumann.
It provides a fair selection of useful information of dependable quality in a single place.
"You start to think, 'I can solve my own problems.' " If you are ready to do that, an simple, dependable machine is the best place to start.
("Spare me the picturesque moil on the rind of an old Gorgonzola in place of the dependable monotony of cream cheese!") Mr. Franzen's footnotes are speckled with comments like, "This sentence is very funny in German".
Global weirding means the number of places with truly dependable Winter Olympic weather will probably shrink, not increase.
This Special Issue of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society features extended versions of five papers selected from The fifth Latin American Dependable Computing (LADC '2011 symposium, which took place in São José dos Campos, SP, on April 25 29 , 2011
FIRST IN VERSE: Before his death in January, John Updike was a dependable presence on the best-seller list, placing some 15 novels here over the years.
They had turned out to be passports to places that were always clean, dependable, comfortable, and -- this was the unexpected bonus -- surprising and different.
