But from my Methuselah-like stance it looks unimaginably exciting.
Where's that statesperson-like stance on something as systemically threatening as climate change?
So it was left to the Sun's headline writers to apparently end the cover up lift the company's Canute-like stance over the facts on the ground.
The French president, François Hollande, has reacted to the Nice attack by reiterating the war-like stance he took after the Islamic State attacks that killed 130 people in Paris in November.
Top tip The Wukoki pueblo is a little further off the main road than the other pueblos, but its castle-like stance atop a large rock outcrop makes it the most dramatic.
The US, and to some extent the UK, has often adopted an Avengers-like stance, assuming a moral mandate to wield weaponry nobody else should have access to – such as nuclear weapons.
We all know the world in which we work is changing at a staggering pace, and the Guardian and Observer NUJ chapel has rightly never taken a Canute-like stance against this particular tide.
As one micro-season slides into the next, and we leave resort for the Pitti Immagine presentations in Florence and then the men's shows in Milan and Paris, followed by haute couture, and the prospect, still unconfirmed, of an Alaia show, and the doldrums of August, I am inclined to adopt a tougher, Pentagon-like stance about everything.
"I think the British outlook on these issues has been a good one on the whole, and this constant attempt to pull it back to these black-and-white issues, and move towards a more France-like stance – which to me is a mirror of the Saudi and Iranian stance, where they impose covering on women – is the wrong direction, and unhealthy.
