"In the north, nobody ever says you've done something fine," Niemi says.
So here's what Sergeant Boyce told Mr. Quick in a conversation tape-recorded at Sing Sing: "If you did something, fine, you did it.
For me, observing and touching some of the gravestones was a gesture to thank those who had given me the opportunity to do something with my life; and now perhaps I had honored them by doing "something fine" with that opportunity.
It is easy enough for a good writer (and this is very good prose — that "inner wedge of sky" perfectly capturing the living blueness of atmosphere) to do something verbally fine with the extremities of desert.
"You can't do something really fine-tuned".
According to Henry James, his father was determined that all his children should "be something, something unconnected with specific doing, something free and uncommitted, something finer in short than being that, whatever it was".
If I have to do something once, that's fine.
The government won't lift a finger, but if people in Manchester want to do something then that's fine.
I remember those first couple of days very distinctly as being a battering, like, 'Fuck!' Just really trying to get into the space of what that was, and it being something that was a bit foreign to me, because part of me was, 'Well, fuck it, come on, pick yourself up, go do something, you'll be fine!' Maybe that sounds really weird".
"The public decided we needed to do something about it, so fine, that's what we do".
