Asked if she thought she might be in the vanguard of a new era, she said, "I'm not thinking about that.
As mundane as these results might seem, they represent the vanguard of social-network science.
It might not be at the vanguard of cutting-edge comedy – it's a panel show, a bit blokey, bants and gags.
That's because the "other lot" happens to be sitting at the cabinet table.As might be expected, the Blairite vanguard maintains that such fears are overdone, and makes a fairly plausible case.
Greenberg was talking about the mid-20th-century vanguard, but he might also have been describing Phillips, whose paintings similarly have a pragmatic, Yankee economy of means and style.
If it was just the established heavy-hitters, though, the week-long event might look like the old vanguard is just flaunting its feathers in a stagnant circle jerk.
The older lady in line at the Port-o-Potties, the one who looks like she stepped out of Central Casting for "country school marm," might be one of the vanguards of evangelical feminism.
Broadway and Hollywood might appear to be in the vanguard of diverse, progressive America but for the past two years no black actors were nominated for an Oscar.
But it quoted Thomas Fischer, an analyst at the Bertlesmann Stiftung think tank, as saying that a smaller vanguard of member states might agree on treaty changes that could be adopted by the other European partners later on.
Indeed she might, with BBC4 being at the lonely vanguard of a recent influx of subtitled European TV drama.
