We're just trying to tell neat stories about neat characters in a neat way".
At the same time the neat, almost epigrammatic character of the second subject makes it similar to a codetta theme, which is often used to round off the exposition after both main subjects have been stated.
She's clearly in favour of him embracing the messy truth, but the reality she creates on the page ends up being too tidy, with a neat ending and characters like the spoilt, shallow Maxine (who calls her own half-baked couture ideas "pure genius") too often used to score easy points against.
Appearing before the Commons liaison committee of senior MPs, Mr Clegg said he was wary of developing a broad-brush "constitutional blueprint", comparing the pursuit of "excessively neat" solutions to characters in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot searching for the meaning of life.
Above all, he lends the character's neat one-liners the lightest of touches.
The gameplay includes building your force and developing your character, with neat graphics and simple controls adding to the appeal.
There are three different skill trees – race, pursuit and exploration – each containing different types of enhancements; it's a neat take on the character classes found in regular MMORPGs.
There's also one neat touch, involving a character turning up like a stowaway, whose actual identity and place in the story suggest a realm of missed chances for scientific yet seemingly supernatural intrigues.
Murray continued that he believed the episode to be "an efficient action/adventure/horror hour, heavy on suspenseful moments and neat effects, light on character development and progress on the master-plot.
I dug it out and saw four neat rows of carved characters.
