For him the diamond-necklace affair, by grinding the royals through the twin courts of the judiciary and public opinion, "brutally dramatised what had been known for a long time that the Bourbons were no longer the uniquely glorious individuals prescribed by royal ideology".
Let's face it, a no dickheads policy, properly implemented, would pretty much destroy professional sport altogether, not to mention robbing us of some of the most glorious teams and individual athletes in history.
Chamber music can be a meeting of the minds, a glorious merging of individuals into a well-crafted whole; or it can be a discussion between opposing points of view.
And all the focus on glowing mamas and "the hardest job in the world" makes it easier to present parenthood – by which we usually mean motherhood – as a glorious, universally desirable and fundamentally individual task that should be incredibly difficult but look easy.
Everest, he learned then, had been climbed but "by a handful of brave individuals, not because a Party was glorious or a Chairman great".
Luckily we live in the age of the glorious and almighty internet, where we can find individuals who are as passionate about weird shit as we are.
Unlike the glorious sports of basketball, American football and baseball, she says, all individual talent is subsumed into the back-patting, winning-isn't-everything comradeship of football.
And so then, dear friends of the glorious RR, let's carry this Celebration on, not only as individuals, but en masse.
For individuals with back pain, both yoga and Pilates poses can give glorious results for stronger and more supportive back muscles.
