The moves, which drew laughter from the audience in the hall, and more than a little mockery on social media, were combined with some opening references to the disastrous time she had delivering her conference speech last year.
The cold opening references several notable bands and musicians: the scene consists of Ryan complaining because he recently heard erroneously that notable musician Smokey Robinson died.
There is an opening reference to the US army being sent in to defend a trading post against the attacks of a native tribe in Missouri.
Gun-control advocates have long maintained that the amendment's ambiguous opening reference to a "well regulated Militia" limited its scope to gun ownership in connection with service in a state militia.
After the speech, a couple of pundits described Obama's opening reference to hating the bank bailout as a call to arms, but it didn't come off like that at all.
Two brothers, Mike Smith, a business-school student, and Mark Smith, a financial adviser, applauded his opening reference to the killing of Osama bin Laden: "There we go!" At Obama's call for an economy in which "everyone plays by the same set of rules," Monique Hedmann, a public-health professional, said, "He's stating the obvious.
Fifteen thousand lines after that opening reference to unburied corpses, the poem closes, magnificently, with a scene of reconciliation between the grief-maddened Achilles — who has daily defiled the unburied body of his mortal enemy, Hector, dragging it back and forth through the dirt before the walls of Troy — and Hector's aged father, the Trojan king, Priam.
The overall message of B34, from its opening reference to "no man" to its concluding phrase "fashioned for all" would have been that there never has been nor ever will be anyone who has the capacity to achieve certainty with respect to these important matters.
Makovsky's opening reference to the "midterm elections" is the key.
Maddin, who is African-American, later said, "The first thing I noticed was that in his opening reference [in his dissent, Gorsuch] simply called me a trucker and didn't use my name".
Vincent Bourne, a master of Westminster School, wrote a Latin poem on the jackdaw which was translated into English by William Cowper and forms the opening reference to a tale by George Augustus Henry Sala about a royal wedding viewed from the point of view of a jackdaw.
