It's a quiet, orderly affair, where adults swim laps in roped-off lanes in otherwise empty pools.
The orderly affair viewers see on television is the result of a chaotic circus behind the scenes.
Channel 5's Immigration Row: Live was a more orderly affair by comparison, but also played too obviously into the hands of the awaiting Twitterati.
If it is an orderly affair, if Pakistan has a role to play, not a dominant but significant one, that might go reasonably well with the public".
Up until Friday, the Democratic convention looked on track to be a more orderly affair than its game show-flavored Republican counterpart.
She demarcates the purpose of the clinic, laying it out as an orderly affair and (implicitly) setting limits on what can happen.
Apart from the assumption that the consultation, with its various 'phases', is an orderly affair, these models tend to assume a structuralist orientation to language, that is, the talk shared between clinician and patient is assumed to represent particular meanings talk is simply representative of reality.
For small children, Murray's Trumptonshire suggested that Britain ran like clockwork and that adult life was an orderly, measured affair.
CLIVE, Iowa — After the months of speeches, millions spent on advertisements and seemingly zillions of debates, the culminating event of the Iowa caucus campaign in the city of Clive, Precinct 4, is an orderly, uncomplicated affair.
