As RTE ringmaster Bill O'Herlihy tut-tutted in a fatherly and faux po-faced fashion, pundit Eamon Dunphy got to work with his new toy, an electronic pen with which he could enhance and illustrate his analysis by drawing white lines, circles, arrows and squiggles on a monitor after pausing the VT with an often aggressive roar of "Stop it there!" at some unseen flunkie in the production suite.
So did our reluctance, until late in the last parliament, to sufficiently illustrate that we took deficit reduction seriously.
The comments, and the backlash against them, illustrate how a tormented racial history dating back centuries is in constant tension with the aspiration of a "rainbow nation".
By this we mean that it's often better to illustrate something rather than to simply tell the reader.
Ron Austin Hadleigh, Suffolk David Cameron's closing comments perfectly illustrate the paucity of vision of today's pygmy politicians.
"What this scenario helps to illustrate is how buy-to-let has not only provided very strong returns for average investors since 1996 but how it has enabled a cohort of ambitious investors to become seriously wealthy," the report said.
Comics fans and people new to the form alike will enjoy these great stories that illustrate the potential of this extraordinary storytelling form, a form that is becoming increasingly influential internationally.
This story seems to me to illustrate a side, at least, of Jane Bown's genius, the source of which she never properly understood herself and about which she remained gracefully modest.
At the pope's general audience this week he outlined the traits of a good father and told a story to illustrate.
Within the last week, Scottish teens have showcased what a playful prime minister we've just lost, while in a London college pre-voters massed around Nick Clegg, who needed something to illustrate "the biggest shake-up of our democracy" since the Great Reform Act.
In an attempt to illustrate this, MIT researcher Ethan Zuckerman published an extraordinary blog post last Wednesday.
