And to anyone who might decry this revelation as irrelevant or inconsequential, look no further than last Thursday's White House press briefing, during which Robert Gibbs was pressed by ABC's Jake Tapper about President Obama's position on same-sex marriage in light of the Clinton reversal.
"We're on a steep learning curve," he explains as he shows me the inconsequential-looking, A5-sized grey box attached to the wall.
Only in 2000 did he embark on his strongest work — on "Code Unknown," "The Piano Teacher," "The Time of the Wolf," and "Caché," made within a five-year period, and possessed of a maturity and an implacable poise that leave "Funny Games" looking as inconsequential as its title suggests.
The repercussions of this week's vote will make the question of head scarves look inconsequential.
He asks Ms. Lovette, Ms. Isaacs (especially) and Ms Kretzschmar to knock off various feats, but he makes them look inconsequential.
And we know too that Shanghai is not China - indeed its relation to the impoverished western vastnesses makes the gap between Mayfair and Middlesbrough look inconsequential.
Nowadays it looks inconsequential, but for a brief time in the 15th century it was recorded as one of the most important places you could worship, along with the two cathedrals of St Paul's and Canterbury.
Yet these setbacks look inconsequential when set against the monstrous losses reported by bigger banks farther afield.That Erste Bank continues to stagger on in perilous emerging markets while many of those that bet on American or British housing have fallen flat is explained, at least in part, by the fact that banking was not Mr Treichl's first choice of career.
"I'm simply stunned by some of the omissions," says blogger Tina Jordan, "...the list of nominees looks inconsequential -- and the NBA looks a little silly -- when the year's truly great books are nowhere to be seen".
Perry, for one, has had back-to-back dismal showings, and is dismissing the earlier contests as inconsequential as he looks to right his struggling campaign in South Carolina.
The number of people in the education system who have actually embraced change is so completely dwarfed by the number who resist it, that the impact our innovators have had in moving the dial on student outcomes is almost inconsequential when you look at the overall data. .
