Anger was what motivated her to write for newspapers as a teen-ager and to make documentary films as an adult, and it is the reaction she habitually tries to provoke in audiences.
I doubt they'll ever really function as anything close to a first family of letters — Owen and Kelly, for the most part, seem to want to establish themselves independent of Stephen King, lest it seem that they were habitually trying to gain leverage from his name.
Even riding through the mean streets of Bay Ridge is a frightening proposition as grannies and the habitually stupid try to pass me all the time on my bike.
(This can be frustrating for YA authors, who feel that, as teenagers habitually swear, trying to create convincing voices for them without using anything stronger than "flip" can strain credibility – and seem, in a world full of sweary films, telly and video games, futile.
For instance, if you procrastinate habitually, do not try to justify it by saying that you get the work done anyway and so it doesn't really matter.
And to those who habitually don't respond, try sending a quick e-mail just to say you can't answer now.
If you habitually smoke, drink, or swear try to keep a grip on it.
As a professor of new media, I habitually present my students with a thought experiment: Try to imagine a different Facebook.
Rene, to try to refresh his memory of the previous day's events, habitually takes snapshots wherever he goes.
I try to pick out the palace balcony where the future Czar Nicholas II habitually enjoyed an evening smoke while watching the promenading crowds pass below.
