Once seated back at the table – or rather, restlessly moving about at the end of it – he relives the long years of rejection slips and how he very nearly gave it all up as a bad job.
Much is made of David Frost's brilliance at oleaginously lulling interviewees into letting go, but the film Frost/Nixon is a reminder of how he very nearly didn't nail the former president.
Fifty-one years after he became the first African-American to win a national championship in figure skating, Atoy Wilson remembers how it very nearly slipped away.
So down at Findon, tucked away in a fold of the West Sussex downs, Gifford can now reflect on how the bandwagon very nearly stalled.
La Frenais and Clement dissect their own rather sterling work while original locations are visited, as is the little-known story of how the show very nearly never reached the screen.
Of course I'd forgotten how hard it would be and very nearly took it off.
What's remarkable is how such a skilled and generous writer very nearly escapes the trap.
Asher also emphasizes how paleontologists, comptive anatomists, and molecular biologists infer very nearly the same sequences of divergence from data in their various fields.
I tapped into how very profoundly I love Kelley and how frightening it was to have nearly lost her to cancer.
The game, the series, their season — they all very nearly ended for the Rangers on Thursday night, but maybe this is how their revival begins.
