And her no-nonsense declarations ("Don't play with me," she warns her young, young beau) are emblazoned by a classical singer's earth-shaking vibrato.
But the agency is showing some backbone today with a no-nonsense declaration that the merger can't go through unless a few "serious concerns" are addressed.
Everyone I spoke to for this article rejected Trump's preemptive "rigging" declarations as nonsense.
But the amount of falsity on cable news nonetheless requires a lot of on-the-spot declarations of "that's nonsense" in a medium that doesn't provide a lot of room for it.
Because of the overlapping authority of the generals, their interim declarations and the old Constitution, "it is nonsense to think that this is a fully functioning legal system," Mr. Hanna added.
It isn't just that this declaration, no matter what he says now, makes nonsense of his quasi-judicial role in deciding the fate of the applicants.
But declarations are cheap.
Typical was the portentous declaration of the London Sunday Times: "The dot.com era has changed for ever with the collapse of one of its brightest stars".Stuff and nonsense.
