If the houses in fairytales are ever orderly, neat and safe, it is a momentary illusion; you may be sure there is a nasty surprise lurking.
Make sure it's always neat! Always keep your pencils sharpened if you ever need a pencil immediately.
But with Italy in general and Mr. Berlusconi in particular, nothing is ever that neat and clean.
It seems like a simple request, but with the talented but burdened rider, nothing is ever that neat and easy.
Ever courteous, neat and soft-spoken, Arnold brought much of her own calm and gentility to her work, however anguished the subject matter.
One day in late July, as I viewed with dismay the withered astilbes, tiarellas and ferns in a neglected border near the house, I was amazed to note the ever so neat clump of an epimedium known as Niveum.
Nothing about the lives of Don, Peggy, Pete, Joan and Roger has ever been neat and tidy, which is partly why the show is one of the greats.
Yet as ever, the neat trick both Matt McBriar and Andy Ferguson manage to swing, is in providing such unashamedly full-frontal party tunes, while keeping things interesting, keeping them dynamic.
As for the future of the fictional Downton characters, Neame says the major stories will be tied up at season's end, though not always with neat little happily-ever-after bows.
Sia's reticence, it turned out, helped her music speak louder than ever — a pretty neat trick.
