It's enough to make Messenger users downright mad with power.
The most incredible thing concerning this whole business is the way political actors and public opinion have gotten carried away; it is our immediate acceptance of what must be termed a diktat, if not a downright abuse of power.
It is remarkable that a woman as distinctive looking as Ms. Lansbury, with her Tweety Bird-shape face and immense eyes, has always been able to blend so thoroughly into whatever role she plays, from the warm and cozy (Jessica Fletcher in "Murder, She Wrote") to the downright evil (the power-crazed mother in "The Manchurian Candidate").
Broadly speaking, White House scandals can be divided into four categories: sex, corruption, abuse of power and downright incompetence – and virtually every recent administration has had its share of them.
But we are seeing an increasing number of cases where our members are being forced out due to a lack of co-operation by the estate owners and often downright intimidation". Land means power, so Scotland's few hundred aristocrats can scarcely be expected to give up on four centuries of owning more than half of the country.
Here we are well in to the 21st century, still facing the inhumanity of deportation, the persistence of sexual abuse, the misapplication of power or downright lies masquerading as justice that we did decades ago.
O.K., admittedly, the doodler in question is Leonardo da Vinci, but after a weekend full of attempts -- some aborted, others just annoying -- to view the city's current roster of blockbuster museum exhibitions, one can get a little testy, not to mention downright skeptical of the transformative power of art.
The cautious attitude, if not downright skepticism, of buyers at Power's first show, though, remains a reminder of how elusive success can be.
And nothing in the Constitution permits power-happy or just downright creepy people from abusing their uniforms and the real need for security.
Given the phenomenal growth of cpu power, it's actually even downright zippy.
