Swaths of the semi-rural township and pastoral environs have been bulldozed, flattened, rezoned, redeveloped, and covered with "people farms".
But in that case, why not permit the use of the heavy roller, which flattened things out considerably in Nottinghamshire's previous home game against Lancashire? Brown described that as "a tactical decision", which left him "very surprised".
Beckham's crime, if you do need reminding, was to give Diego Simeone a light flick on the calf in retaliation for being flattened during a World Cup game with Argentina.
They are unmistakable even from a distance with their distinctive flattened, brightly coloured bill," she said.
He sped past Porsches, Maseratis and "mother-of-pearl Rolls-Royces", he and his wife flattened against the back seat.
This afternoon its trumpets were in full bloom, comfortably upright in a blustery April wind that had flattened more refined, weaker-stemmed modern cultivars in gardens.
A border patrol agent for 13 years, he knows how to spot the clues, some obvious – like the jeans – others more subtle, like the flattened grass nearby that formed a northwards path through dense bushes.
In fact, the curve goes in exactly the opposite direction: capitalism started out unequal, flattened inequality for much of the 20th century, but is now headed back towards Dickensian levels of inequality worldwide.
The proof on this occasion was breast-ironing, a horrific practice in which the breasts of girls are flattened with hot objects to delay the onset of puberty.
Only a few weeks into its release, the film has been flattened into a symbol to serve the interests of an ideology that, arguably, runs counter to the ethos of the film itself.
Sammy the demolition man (Who flattened the poet's house In Ashley Avenue, its roof Crashing into that homestead, Then all the floors, poetry And conversation collapsing) Slices the sawdusty tons, Wooden manhole-covers, An imagined underground.
