But it is stuck in the past to avoid or decry working with companies.
But off the court he does not talk about staying focussed or decry "distractions".
Just months ago, Mr. Lay was widely hailed -- or decried, in some circles -- as the genius behind energy deregulation.
My fascination with the microscopic form, color and disposition of cells drives me like a critic to interpret, to applaud or decry them for others".
Clarkson will wield his considerable power not just to attack, belittle or decry those who he feels entitled to criticise or ridicule, but he does so from a comfortable place of entitlement.
Whether future pre-teens will laud or decry today's mostly formulaic games remains to be seen, but the emergence of the engaging "non-game" game shows how the medium is evolving.
There have been the excellent Letters Of Note books edited by Shaun Usher, with its accompanying Letters Live stage shows; the Letters In The Mail subscription service run by rumpus.net, where you get a letter from an interesting writer every two weeks; and a whole series of books and articles either celebrating letters, or decrying email, or both.
No Arab Spring protester, however much he or she might identify with the plight of the Palestinians or decry the cruel policies of Israeli occupation in the West Bank (as I do), would think today to attribute all the ills of Arab polities to empty abstractions like "imperialism" and "Zionism".
In a way, her rites of passage are essential to Rookie's authenticity: it's a place where teenagers can channel their own adolescence through hers, whether she's extolling the cult sitcom "Freaks and Geeks" or decrying Hollywood's standards of beauty.
Certain makers of musicals, like Stanley Donen and Vincente Minnelli, were fêted or decried for their organizational verve and a fetishistic appetite for color; only with time did it emerge that what they sought was a shape for emotional longings, and that could happen here, too.
