It's also further evidence that, though richer people are healthier in the long run, sudden improvements in economic circumstances can have undesirable side-effects.
The first and best-known aphorism is, "Life is Short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgment difficult" (often shortened to the Latin tag, "Ars longa, vita brevis").
Cheesy bands pop up again They made most people long for sudden deafness when they were together the first time but, for reasons best known to themselves, the Nolan Sisters are back.
In the modern airport experience, where the tedium of long lines, sudden delays and ever-more-invasive security checks is the norm, little can be done to avoid the frustrations increasingly endemic to travel.
Outside, Mr. Timberlake had walked with the briskness of someone long accustomed to sudden, shrieking swarms of fans.
Not long before his sudden death in 2008, Richard Hickox had begun a survey of Holst's orchestral music for Chandos.
He likes the "spontaneity and variety, reacting to the rhythms of the street, with its long lulls and sudden convulsions".
We understand from the fussy diction and from the jokes that this is not a person given to spasms of rapture; as with many such passages in her poems, a fundamental asperity, never surrendered for very long, makes her sudden joy all the more moving.
(Remember: Wikileaks existed long before its sudden burst into the spotlight this year).
Other characteristics of lava domes include their spherical dome shape, cycles of dome growth over long periods, and sudden onsets of violent explosive activity.
