What the two old enemies have in common, significantly, is a natural taste for irony: Grant's understatements, like Adams's self-mortifications, are meant to make the narrator seem modest while showing that he sees through everything.
"And when you share a landlord with people you have of course a built-in common enemy, and there's just about nothing more bond-inducing than sharply focused ill will".
It is much easier to pull together when the enemy you have in common is them, than it is to pull together when the enemy you have in common is you.
Some examples: Use a smash with the home run bat to get a free kill (be careful), throw bombs into crowds of enemies, plant motion sensors in common places enemies will be (edge of the map), use the Poke Ball close to enemies, try not to throw it off the stage by accident.
Although he is keen to bring out "the latent political intelligence of literature", Mr Hitchens is rightly not prepared to have authors like T.S. Eliot and Philip Larkin read only through the optic of their politics; in his opinion this grossly distorts their art.Mr Amis and Mr Hitchens have many friends, enemies and attitudes in common.
Each felt they could only insure themselves against their neighbors by invading them (Lebanon, Yemen) or by funding proxy wars and coups (Syria, Egypt, Libya).They have enemies or rivals in common - Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Hamas in Gaza, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Believers and nonbelievers have a common enemy in state-controlled religion, and a common interest in church-state separation.
The enemy today has something in common with the people who seized him in 1979, he said: the Taliban, like the Iranian hostage takers, at first described themselves as students, and the methods they used to humble the United States were inexpensive and mostly low-tech.
Protective mutualisms, in which one partner defends the other from a natural enemy, are common in nature.
"If you share the same enemies, you have something in common.
