Data from one insurance-company survey suggest that the average person misplaces up to nine objects a day, which means that, by the time we turn sixty, we will have lost up to two hundred thousand things.
Then, before she knows it, it is 2 30 p.m. and time for the scramble of picking up the children at their three schools, looking for misplaced backpacks, cleaning up spilled juice and potato-chip crumbs and cooking dinner while helping Imani with "three-take-away-one".
Comparison with Oliver Hardy is not misplaced: Hardy summed up his own appeal as 'a very stupid guy who thinks he's a cut above another stupid guy'.
Do this last to cover and blemishes, bags, and misplaced make up.
Graphical faults identified by critics included occasional pop-up, misplaced shadows, and lag when racers passed through on-track trees; these problems were generally identified as minor.
Apoptosis is a tightly regulated form of physiological cell death involved in organ shaping during embryogenesis, tissue turnover in the adult as well as the removal of damaged, misplaced and used-up cells (Meier et al. 2000).
A street cleaner comes to pick it up, spikes it with a stick, produces his card instructing him to pick up all misplaced matter, and goes off with the money.
Neither the Taiwan issue nor labor's misplaced opposition should hold up an early, positive vote.
2. Conor Pope made a similar argument two days ago on Labour List: "Miliband's faith, on which Labour's election plan was founded, that there is a progressive majority in this country has been shown up as misplaced.
It's a pattern of socialising adopted by certain stand-up comedians when on tour, and one which risks aggravating a performer's tendency to excess (from a misplaced obligation to live up to a hedonistic reputation) and heightening their vulnerability to bad publicity.
