I don't ask whether it was her father's death when she was 10 that triggered her interest in acting, on the assumption that she is tired of having this neat scenario presented to her as a profound insight, but she sees fit to confide that Gregory Peck and Alan Alda stood in as "substitute fathers" when she was growing up.
One of the purposes of this transformation was to make comparison neater to present and easier to understand.
We saw an example of such neat choices presented at a recent democratic debate where Wolf Blitzer tried to force candidates to choose between idealism or realism, human rights or civil liberties, and economic growth or renewable energy with the false underlying assumption that we have to give up one to obtain the other.
If the plots of some works are nonsensical, Verdi embraced musical drama not as a way to present neat little narratives but as a chance to bring to life flawed and lost characters caught up in complex relationships, especially those between fathers and daughters, mothers and sons.
Another neat way to present a napkin is to choose one in a green color (for grass) and fold it flat, then place an origami bunny atop the napkin.
Rock had long presented itself as something rebellious, youthful and unstudied, the antithesis of Broadway's neat, middlebrow presentations for the middle-aged crowd.
"Wide Angles" (Verve), credited to his Quindectet (that means 15 people are in the group) does a neat trick: it presents amiable, fairly easy-listening jazz-funk dressed up in progressive orchestrations by Gil Goldstein that include French horn, flute, bass clarinet, oboe and a string quartet.
Moreover, the presented neat formulae serve a verification tool for the researchers actively working in the field, particularly when numerical methods are employed to investigate more complex phenomena.
A neat Arsenal move presented Jordan Nobbs with a chance, but her effort was blocked by Chelsea's Millie Bright, and that was as close as the Gunners came to an equaliser.
Check to see if they are neat and well presented.
