When asked Thursday whether his advisers were trying to wean Mr. Obama from his BlackBerry, which he often wears attached to his belt, Mr. Gibbs conceded, "Nobody can do that".
He had less use for the antibusiness attitude that often attaches to those disciplines.
But her observations are refreshingly free from the cliched linguistic incontinence that often attaches to this genre.
This reduces, without entirely eliminating, the sentimentality that often attaches to bank-robbing antiheroes who don't shoot anyone.
But it often attaches conditions, and this year Republicans who control the House of Representatives are insisting on particularly onerous terms.
He also strove to overcome the "children's entertainer" onus so often attached to magicians, insisting that no one under age 17 be admitted to his performances.
He begins with some remarks on the social stigma that is so often attached to misspelling.
Mr. Arnott says he likes the higher relative yields and expects the "illusion of reckless risk" often attached to emerging-market debt to abate.
Great weight is often attached to Walter's performances of Mahler, for as a Mahler protégé he was present when the composer conducted some of his own symphonies.
A tassel is often attached.
