It is as though we lived within a five- or six-foot-tall eye, an immense, enclosing ear, with all an eye or ear's illusions, blind spots, and habitual mistakes.
On the evidence of these books, one might almost think that Greene took malicious pleasure in leading Sherry, his pious official biographer, down the garden path, and that, similarly, if he were still around, the old mischief-maker would have been quietly amused by the way Shelden mistook his habitual secretiveness and prankster spirit for outright villainy.
Mistakes have become almost habitual for the tenth-year vet, and he rarely exhibits rapid instincts in coverage.
Rather, it would be 'She be passin' by every Tuesday when I'm about to leave.' " A mistake to untrained ears, the habitual "be" is, "of all things, grammar".
Anyone making a mistake twice is considered a habitual offender…beating is the commonest punishment — those enduring the blows are expected to look cheerful and even to praise their Heavenly King as the blows fall.
Furthermore, the not-self doctrine provides a justification for treating endurance, independence, and self-subsistence as neither desirable nor attainable, but rather as what they are: mistaken notions resulting from the habitual tendency to construct an identity from a stream of physical and subjective phenomena.
The latter is likely to be a chronic or habitual issue, while the former would be an occasional lapse, so a good old fashioned cross beside silly mistakes is as good as anything.
Not the habitual shopper.
Growing similar, habitual.
