That such ladies have, to an extent, gone out of style suggests how very much real life has changed for gay men of my generation.
Those were the days, and how very unlike the life of our own dear Brian!
How different, how very different from life lived behind the screen of privets in middle-class suburbs.
However one might respond to some of the complexities of current feminist debates, it's sobering and significant to be reminded how very recently the life of any sexually active and fertile woman – married or otherwise – was dominated by the prospect of pregnancy.
In the days before the deadly attack, Ms. Zonszein's fellow activists at Ta'ayush were working to draw attention to how very tense daily life in the occupied West Bank can be when Israeli soldiers try to keep Palestinian farmers away from land near Israeli settlements.
And while you might not need a biology class to understand all of that, you might need a business lesson to teach you how much that very life cycle applies to entrepreneurs running a business, and that your knowledge of this life cycle could mean the difference between failure and success.
He was willing to stake his money, his sanity and even his very life on how others viewed him.
How very different from their working life in Mother Russia.
How different, how very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen.
"How different, how very different is the home life of our own dear queen!" Legend has it that in the days of Queen Victoria, one British matron spoke these words to another with reference to Sarah Bernhardt's impassioned performance as Cleopatra.
Che never goes off duty in this epic, and those who stick with it over both movies may well be perplexed at how very little of Che's life it covers.
