For her part, Binoche can only recall meeting Depardieu once, over dinner, where he accused her of "always making beautiful films" – for which, clearly, she merits only our bile and condemnation.
On the 150th anniversary of d'Annunzio's birth, the British cultural historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett wants to reintroduce him to an English-speaking world that has largely forgotten him, and in "Gabriele d'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War," she argues that he merits attention not only as a literary figure but also as a major political one.
Both would deliver panicked back-passes that threatened to hand the hosts the lead they merited, only for Joe Hart's excellence to preserve England their point.
But the prospect merits only two cheers.
Inter-war Greece, for example, merits only a slender paragraph.
Among militant Shiites in Lebanon, apparently, Mr. Khatami is a nonperson, somebody who merits only scowls.
These days, a "once-in-a-lifetime" $19 million estate merits only a quarter-page ad.
In the ever-expanding universe of financial fraud, Marcia Sladich merits only the tiniest of footnotes.
Bush's mention of North Korea -- "added to the axis last" -- merits only a few sentences here, mostly concerning Frum's pleasure at Pyongyang's pique.
The death of Bach's first wife Maria Barbara merits only a single page, and we learn little of its musical consequences.
