Sharon Osbourne seemed old when she last appeared on The X Factor in 2013, railing so fruitlessly against the ravages of time that it perpetually seemed as though she was performing a one-woman revival of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? whenever the camera cut to her.
We've come close – Scandal is clearly preposterous but takes itself slightly too seriously, and House of Cards perpetually seems seconds away from turning into a full-scale Frankie Howerd parody of itself – but it has always been hard to shake the feeling that most modern showrunners have been too busy eyeing up prestige to fully commit to trash.
With a deep tan and residual ski hair, Mr. Bemis perpetually seems as if he just took his final run of the day.
Skid Row-based producer Letta's debut LP the first long-player to see release from increasingly influential label Coyote is a pitch-black, mutated piece of music that perpetually seems on the verge of imploding.
It is just they perpetually seem reluctant to dip into it.
In the 1970's, Bangladesh perpetually seemed in famine and was famously dismissed by Henry Kissinger as an "international basket case".
He has close, productive partnerships with the singer Dianne Reeves and the trumpeter Chris Botti, with whom he is currently — and, it sometimes seems, perpetually — on tour.
The movie has a fan's heart, a sense of loving every goofball moment, but as directed by Mike Mendez it also seems perpetually caught between being a spoof or playing it straight and winds up falling between the cracks rather than rising above.
This movie by Djibril Diop Mambéty bursts with energy and brio, and it's got such verve and immediacy that it seems perpetually modern.
As a chronicle of hopes fostered and dashed in Hollywood, it seems perpetually ready to stab its loyalists in the back.
"The Door in the Floor" nimbly shifts between melodrama and comedy, with a delightful and perfectly executed excursion into high farce near the end, and it seems perpetually to be discovering new possibilities for its characters.
