Hell, I've even got relatively nice relatives, so I know I should be relatively happy.
"The only way to get it in New York and San Francisco would be to know a real nice relative traveling from the Upper Midwest, or to call a shipping retailer in one of those states".
I envisioned horrible squalor – and there are places that are terrible – but what was surprising is there were also places there that were really nice, relative to Beijing standards".
Peter Parker (Spidey), meanwhile, occupies a more benign and familiar modern environment in Woodhaven, Queens, and is cared for by much nicer relatives.
There is now reasonable agreement that its purpose is partly to be nice to relatives (with whom one shares genes) and partly to permit the exchanging of favours.
"Selfish" genes are perfectly compatible with selfless organisms, because a gene's metaphorical goal of selfishly replicating itself can be implemented by wiring up the brain of the organism to do unselfish things, like being nice to relatives or doing good deeds for needy strangers.
Taking a page from the playbook of George H. W. Bush (who, nice guy and relative moderate though he was, based the non-Willie Horton half of his successful 1988 campaign on the fantasy that his opponent despised the flag and the Pledge of Allegiance to it), Romney led a Virginia crowd in reciting the Pledge.
Amid the clamor there's a nice pocket of relative quiet when Jake, who's been detained, suddenly realizes that the strange, metallic bracelet locked on his left wrist has a purpose, an epiphany that turns him into a cowboy with a zap gun.
This one is also nice and cheap relative to its expected earnings power.
Plus, this one has become nice and cheap, relative to its expected earnings power.
