"He was in a horrible state.
"But the French contribution to this recovery is likely to sag, thanks to its labour market which is still in a horrible state.
"I've been lamenting the horrible state of the movie industry the past few years," he told the LA Times in March.
"I am the cause for the disruption between the North and the South," he continued, and the point was to destroy the "horrible state of affairs" that man's "selfish nature" had brought.
Kere, who works in public affairs, says the trains themselves are in a horrible state, "often very dirty and very old", and completely packed by the time they arrive at her station.
Up ahead we have more sequels than ever — "The Hangover ad Nauseam," "Pirates of the Caribbean: Back for More of Your Money," "X-Men Tiny Toons Adventure" — and thus a fresh set of reasons for critics and their readers to grouse about the horrible state of movies.
You must have seen parties of blockheads With blotched and lagered skin Blockheads with food particles in their teeth What a horrible state they're in They've got womanly breasts under pale mauve vests Shoes like dead pig's noses Cornflake packet jacket, catalogue trousers A mouth what never closes.
Their friends Andrey and Nina Botkin had been denied and now lived in a horrible state of limbo, outlaws in the eyes of the Soviet government, both fired from their jobs, Andrey painting cabins at some remote resort, Nina working as a cleaning lady at a school for the deaf, their son, Kolya, expelled from his kindergarten and left in the care of his psychotic grandmother.
"I could be doing very well and I'd focus on somebody who was kind of sitting there and I would stop the show and say, 'THIS ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, SIR?' " He still shivers thinking about dating: "I never, ever showed up for a date without being in a horrible state of anxiety.... Women will take looks and money over a sense of humor any day.
Lest we forget, the UK economy and the public finances are still in a horrible state.
