If that were all there was to worry about, there would, as it were, be nothing to worry about.
But Long will long (as it were) be remembered for reading out his family's favourite recipes, including a soup made of the water left over from boiled greens, known as "potlikker".
For Del, however, Pete has reached the end of his usefulness and should, as it were, be sold for scrap: a prospect so horrifying to Charley that one night, with the horse in tow, he flees.
The question is what is in our national interest: and I've always been very clear it's in our national interest as a trading nation to be in the single market, but not like Norway just accept all the rules of the single market, pay for the privilege of being part of it, and, as it were, be governed by fax from Brussels.
As in the social example, the religious hypothesis must, as it were, be met half-way.
As Arendt puts it: "Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever".
