He served a man who habitually went over the heads of Cabinet members and who frequently settled important departmental matters without consulting the department heads.
For example, if preliminary scans of a department targeted for change indicate that faculty within that department habitually use catalogued PowerPoint slides when preparing their courses, then, efforts to improve teaching would be well served by focusing on improving these materials.
Even those of us who habitually favor serious, austere, aesthetically correct drinks — single-malt Scotch, green tea, pomegranate juice, whatever — may occasionally indulge in a frivolous cocktail bedecked with fruit and umbrellas and served in a bulbous, sugar-rimmed glass.
He was the duly-elected governor of the state of Indiana, and he declares himself "a Christian" before anything else, and now he is "privileged" to "serve" a man who habitually lies.
The Blankfeins and Dimons and Welchs not only lack the critical attributes - they also lack the sense of what it means to serve the public from which they habitually distance themselves.
He habitually stops at the soup kitchen -- the Worker serves 800 to 1,000 meals a week -- on his way to play speed chess for cash in Washington Square Park.
Most modes of rationality, he suggested, are conveniently instrumental or ideological forms, which serve distinct subjective and objective functions, and they habitually stand in the way of genuine knowledge.
It could serve as an anthem for crime-fiction writers, who habitually kill off the kind of people -- in the kind of places -- they care about most.
While he was serving Lyndon Johnson, Valenti cultivated his next patron — Lew Wasserman, whom Valenti, in later years, habitually referred to as "the tallest redwood in the movie forest".
If poetry habitually offers an opening up, a sharing and surrendering of the senses and perceptions, for Kathleen it serves a different purpose.
