As so often with The Thick of It, the exchange captured a truth.
In an exchange captured by ITN, Mr Clegg replied: "I'm trying to be".
A recording of that exchange, captured during a police sting operation, was released by The New Yorker last month.
That exchange captured the villages: they are charming, to be sure, but they are also clearly dying.
This exchange captured, in microcosm, the shifting psychology of Serbia, a change that would lead to Europe's last democratic revolution.
But in an exchange captured by television cameras, Ms. Palin was greeted by Asif Ali Zardari, the new president of Pakistan, and a delegation of Pakistani officials.
The exchange captured in an instant the way the world had changed for Mr. Kerry on Tuesday night as he scored victories across the country on the primary night that carried the largest delegate prize yet.
Eliot's reply: "I can understand your wanting to write poems, but I don't quite know what you mean by 'being a poet.' " The exchange captures something essential about the disparity in caliber between the two writers, and it also explains why good satires of the literary life are hard to come by.
The exchange, captured by several television cameras, could only have delighted organizers of the Adoption Saturday event, which was sponsored mainly by the New York State court system to underscore the difficulties faced by children in the city's foster care system and adults who sometimes must endure years of delay in completing adoption proceedings.
The two friends and their quick exchange capture the primary emotions that have swept over Chicago since Mr. Daley, 68, said he would bow out of the office he has held since 1989: enthusiasm about an opportunity for real change for the first time in decades, alongside a real fear of the unknown.
