My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves.
In 1995, Leonard Lauder told Bobbi, "You're beating us in the stores" and offered to buy the company with the assurance that she could do anything and be totally creative.
Sometimes the adult may say something totally unhelpful, and not do anything at all.
On The Huffington Post and its ilk, you would find rants about how "Beltway media really makes no effort to do anything other than parrot totally out-of-touch conventional wisdom--no matter how inane, stupid and ridiculous it is".
As recently as today, you would have found a well-reasoned and rational argument, making proven claims about how the media made no effort to do anything other than parrot totally out-of-touch conventional wisdom.
You can then proceed to arguing over the latest machinations of the Bowl Championship Series to produce something resembling a playoff, writes Andy Staples on SI.com, while realizing it doesn't do anything to fix what is totally crooked about college sports, writes Ray Ratto on CBSSports.com.com
Hausfeld replied, "The union still has to explain why they appeared before Congress over three years ago admitting the injuries experienced by former players resulted from head trauma-related concussions and then failed totally to do anything on their behalf to eliminate it".
"One of the worst experiences for a family is to witness their child in pain and discomfort, and for them to feel totally powerless to do anything about it," said Dr Craig, a consultant in paediatric palliative medicine at GOSH since 2002.
She couldn't muster enough interest in life to haul herself out of bed most days, until (she wrote on her blog): "I started baking cakes, because I was so totally unable to do anything else and I found it comforting and it got me through the day".
