If Nicolas Sarkozy latterly scooped up votes shamelessly from the gutter of the far right, France's next president headed consciously elsewhere: "We need everything France has got to offer," he said.
Latterly, however, if something really matters to us, we turn it into a reality television show.
This suggests that for many clinicians, their experience of pursuing HIV medicine initially featured a considerable element of chance and serendipity, even if this field had latterly come to represent a significant and meaningful dimension of their working lives.
As Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Samuel Eto'o and, latterly, Luis Enrique himself have discovered, if you value your future at the Nou Camp, it is important that Messi likes you.
If you live in Scunthorpe, you've been forgotten; if you live within the M25, third way liberalism and, latterly, the more #FBPE-friendly elements of Corbynism have worked out well for you, right?
Twenty years into a mighty if relatively unsung career – first as an act called Smog, latterly under his own name – Bill Callahan's oblique, deadpan, understated songs mark him out as one of the most penetrating crafters of the North American language since Leonard Cohen.
Latterly, Yelchin had been broadening his range, including a well-regarded if not mould-breaking performance as Cloten in Michael Almereyda's film version of Shakespeare's Cymbeline at the Venice film festival in 2014.
You may find yourself spending rather more on dinner if you choose to dine in, for the chef is Jean-François Piège, latterly of the palatial Hôtel de Crillon, where he had three Michelin stars.
Latterly they have thrived.
Latterly, Hill lived in Malibu.
