The Palm Court was the one place she never had to mention manners.
It seems almost churlish to mention the manner of Hales' dismissal after he had made 56 in an innings that was at first dogged and then became fluent.
The upcoming election goes one further, and ignites the touchpaper on simmering familial resentment and unhappy marriages ("Tits, Miles, grab them!" "I'm going to watch the news"), not to mention all manner of fraught dinner parties.
Leg in a cast, bored, he might have just set up a video camera by the window, thus stumbling into a half-dozen murders, not to mention all manner of kinky personal hygiene habits.
By day, these act as the counters from which traders sell fresh north-European seafood – the shrimps and prawns are blinding, as are the ubiquitous Belgian moules, not to mention all manner of other gastropods.
"Laughter in Czernopol," the narrator tells us, "had been elevated to an art form, a folk art of unparalleled authenticity... well endowed with the most vivid references, not to mention all manner of innuendoes".
Bond is horrified at the greater technology and resources available to his American counterpart, while Hunt swiftly becomes pretty unimpressed with 007's determination to sleep with every female member of his carefully recruited IMF team within minutes of meeting them, not to mention the manner in which at least a third of these passing paramours subsequently wind up dead.
Shaheen is not alone in wondering what role they have played, not just in the rise of Isis, but in the decisions to invade Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place, not to mention the manner in which those wars were conducted, from the high levels of civilian casualties to atrocities such as those at Abu Ghraib.
