Given that over the last two decades, General Motors' prestige division has sometimes barely seemed to be breathing, all this might be likened to menu planning on the Titanic.
Frank, it seems, has barely bust out of jail when he starts romancing Kate Winslet's depressed single mother and playing baseball with her hothoused adolescent son (Gattlin Griffith).
While Mr. McGrath refrained from passing judgment on Mr. Schundler's decision, a Democratic ally of Mr. McGreevey said this: "To be out there, when New Jersey has barely begun to mourn, seems untimely, to be polite".
There is something touching about the gilded isolation of Kate Middleton, who has barely held a job and seems to spend a lot of time having her hair done with her mother.
Balazs Csillag, who has barely survived the Second World War, seems to his son, Vilmos, to be determined to forget the very things that Vilmos most wishes to learn — family history and history itself.
In the run-up, it is true the flag has been flown from cars and balconies - but not that much in a country that has barely stopped for breath in what seems like the inevitable route to the World Cup final.
The field that seems to have fizzled has barely begun to live.
After all, the war has barely come up during a campaign that already seems interminable.
And the idea of eleventh-century men expressing their undying love to women they have barely seen might seem strange to us.
