I started to feel that, at certain points in some of the stories, the most interesting aesthetic motion — the plot twist, if you will — was the one that swerved away from what I might call the habitually catastrophic.
Approaching the ECT informed consent procedure as an exercise of utility (risks vs. benefits) obscures the way ECT intervention ought to be assessed, namely how the procedure might affect the everyday, habitually engaged self.
In fact, the main group to suffer this Easter might be the minority who habitually holiday in the UK.
Crickmay's fellow committee members are altogether so gray, and so habitually absent, that they might as well — well, they might as well be dead.
James Cowper's Holland says: "If customers are habitually late payers it might be worth considering invoice discounting, where a third party advances a percentage of funds against unpaid invoices.
Subjects with high reactivity showed a higher degree of interoceptive awareness and trait anxiety suggesting that a habitually increased sympathetic outflow might be one variable contributing to the establishment of high interoceptive awareness and trait anxiety.
So a person may take little exercise but be physically active with low levels of sedentary behaviour, whereas another might do structured exercises but be habitually inactive and spend long periods sedentary.
For example, one might conjecture that the habitual use of Spanish induces its speakers to be sensitive to the formal and informal character of the speaker's relationship with their interlocutor while habitually using English does not.
The observed tendency towards increased risk among individuals who habitually wash their hands 10 19 times/day might even be the result of false security, or even more speculatively, a perturbed protective skin microbiota [ 25, 26].
The knife was worn so habitually that – as with a watch – you might start to regard it as a part of yourself and forget it was there.
