Still, the culture warriors of left and right do understand something that their less ideological fellow countrymen sometimes forget.
Tim takes the lead, explaining the ins and outs of the tubing to his less experienced fellow travellers.
Psycho-Babble posters sometimes sound less like fellow sufferers looking to share than connoisseurs involved in collective critique of psychoactive medication — as other groups critique art or wine.
"If it's not Harvard, Yale or Princeton, you get that look," she said, less from fellow students than from parents or other adults.
Ugliness from the meritocrats, who are remarkably dismissive of their less fortunate fellow citizens (of all the myths about America, the myth that it is not a class-conscious society is perhaps the most risible).
He had become alarmed by a huge increase in reports that radicals were imposing their values on less pious fellow prisoners – stopping them from smoking or listening to music, abusing them as "heretics" in the exercise yard.
Dud of the week is $40m Sean Penn thriller The Gunman, which hobbled in at 12th place globally, its $5.9m take less than fellow sharpshooter American Sniper managed after nearly three months on tour.
I just wanted to be on a newspaper.' Eventually, her persistence paid off, and she became a reporter, with a desk abutting that of no less a fellow than Keith Waterhouse.
Even without a vote in Greece, it might behoove Germans — and Frenchmen — to act as if they view Greeks as less fortunate fellow European citizens, rather than as profligate failures who deserve to suffer many years of austerity for their sins.
It demands the acknowledgment that we are all fragile beings, nexuses of hope and fear, children of some mother and perhaps parents to others: that is, no more and no less than fellow human beings in a world fraught with imponderables.
