Performing a Bond song means lowering oneself to the lovably tacky standards of the series.
To fuck above and beyond any sense of disgust was not just a way of lowering oneself, it was to raise yourself above all prejudice.
On the plus side, the business of busting into bank vaults through enormous circular steel doors, substituting security videotapes and lowering oneself on steel wires past infra-red security beams is as watchable as ever.
Lucinda, when I finally forced her to start watching, correctly told me to stop bitching about the dragons: they were part of the deal, the price of voluntarily lowering oneself into the pit of the brain.
We fling the scorps as far as we can across the brown and withering lawn, chase the ducks and geese out, and then lower ourselves gingerly into the pool, whose sides wave green and long and soft and grasping with algae.
He lowered himself gingerly onto his bench and began a prancing version of "New York, New York".
Elderly ladies in orange dressing gowns and bathing caps lowered themselves gingerly into the opaque depths, their faces breaking into broad smiles at the soothing temperatures.
As he lowered himself gingerly onto a wooden bench, the lights of Manhattan just starting to gleam to his left, he seemed rattled by the workout and disappointed in his performance.
By 10 45, the back of the chariot was lowered gingerly from the white wooden jacks that kept it up off the base of the platform.
How much of self-esteem comes from defining someone as lower than oneself on the ladder of human values?
After a few wobbly moments, I gingerly lower myself on to all fours.
