It's our chronic inattention to that fact that keeps it from having any lasting, tragic weight.
Our Islamophobia dates back to the time of the Crusades, and is entwined with our chronic anti-semitism.
However, this is obviously a small part of the much bigger plan needed to fix our chronic housing shortage.
"We haven't had good information to identify our superstars or our chronic underperformers".
Our chronic embarrassment or fear of embarrassment when it comes to our President may be a new phenomenon, but our lack of imagination is not.
The recent cases illustrate not just an explicit link between civil unrest and an increasingly volatile global food system, but also the root of this problem in the increasing unsustainability of our chronic civilisational addiction to fossil fuels.
Architects and engineers also could try to cultivate benign or beneficial species, favoring certain conditions and altering our chronic, long-term exposure.
"At Shelter we see the impact of our chronic shortage of affordable homes every day, with increasing numbers of people left with no choice but to fork out most of their hard-earned wages on expensive private rents, and wave goodbye to the chance of a stable home".
Jimmy Aldridge, energy campaigner at Greenpeace, welcomed the commitment but said: "If ministers are serious about shaking off our chronic addiction to volatile, dangerous fossil fuels, they should drop their good cop, bad cop routine on clean energy and get on with the job of making Britain's energy cleaner and safer".
We arrived on site earlier that morning, having come on the midnight ferry, straight from a warm-up show in Brighton, only to find that the hotel where we picked up our passes closed over night, proof of our chronic inability to read emails properly.
Interestingly, the German spoken among the U-boat crew was left in the original and subtitled – a bold decision given our chronic British aversion to the format, but it felt right.
