"When so many people you know are at an invite-only affair that you weren't invited to, it makes you wonder how they could possibly have so much fun without you," said Dave Winer, a software developer who had vowed to unfollow tweeters from the Davos conference.
That is no mean affair; the only thing that separates the writer from ordinary folk — and, far from making him or her a better or wiser person, let alone a more amenable one, it can redouble the force of solitude, "one's ultimate hard irreducible inorganic singleness" — is that the reading of a poem, or the pondering of a Crucifixion, becomes an event.
Proof of an affair is the only thing that might have tempted me to vote for Palin.
Layering bland stomps like Everybody's on the Run and The Death of You and Me with acoustic Oasis numbers, it's a joyless affair that only comes to life when Gallagher dedicates Supersonic to Mo Farah.
By comparison, the campaign for Sani Isla is a grassroots affair that has only just started to attract the attention of the domestic media.
They're a classic example of "parasitic" mimicry, a strictly one-sided affair that benefits only the imitator, but leaves the male and the masculine-colored female vulnerable.
He made only a passing reference to the affair that brought him down, mentioning it only to express regret and to say it had not influenced earlier testimony about Benghazi.
His California swing was a four-day affair that included only one public event.
Monitoring Internet traffic is a tedious and time-consuming affair that will only become more difficult as the volume increases.
Mr. Chan, through his lawyers, said that he and Mrs. Wang had a 15-year affair that ended only with her death.
What we are witnessing is a completely one-sided affair that can only be described as an act of aggression using weapons of mass destruction against a nation devoid of the means of defending itself.Such actions are illegal and undemocratic.
