But there is also frequently the sense -- conveyed in commentary between friends, or shared glances -- that while keeping up with the Joneses may be tough financially, it would be dead easy if taste, discernment and good sense were the criteria.
But while we're gazing at glossy baby pics and trying to determine whether a female celebrity's protruding belly means she's with child or just ate a burger for lunch, women whose pregnancies don't make the magazines are too often finding themselves injured, sick, financially devastated, or even dead.
FS: Financially secure; financially stable.
"It is my wish that the Helmut Newton Foundation be a viable and living institution, not a dead museum, that will financially exploit these archives," he noted late last year.
But quite often, the shooters themselves cannot be held fully or even partially accountable, financially, because they are unknown, destitute or dead.
With the help of developers such as Double Fine and Telltale Games, adventure games saw a resurgence in the 2010s, with financially successful titles such as Broken Age, The Walking Dead, and The Wolf Among Us.
You must be financially prepared at all times for any home emergencies, like a dead air conditioner in August or a termite infestation.
In certain respects, the proposals take dead aim at one company in particular, Goldman Sachs, which has emerged stronger financially through the crisis but has taken a beating in the court of public opinion.
Valedictorians, by contrast, conformed to the expectations of school and carefully chose careers that were likely to be socially and financially secure: "As a rule, valedictorians relegated their early interests to hobbies, second majors, or regretted dead ends.
By the time the Soviets left, in 1989, many hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilians were dead, along with about fifteen thousand Soviet soldiers, and the Soviet Union had been set even further off balance, financially and morally.
