But he added: "Sometimes parts of the Conservative party move but they move more slowly, or a few paces behind the centre of gravity of social attitudes which have changed and will probably continue to change in ways that it is hard to predict.
He cut his teeth on the "cruel and merciless employer" role in George Huang's 1995 comedy, putting Frank Whaley's Guy through his paces in a new job, and snarling through crushing putdowns that would drive the average person to a quiet cry in the office loos.
Carson has a headset mic and paces the state, trying for the Ted Cruz effect.
All day they walk three paces apart from each other so they don't catch Ebola," said one Red Cross team worker staying at the hotel, gesturing at the crowd swaying body-to-body as Guinea's trademark reggae crackled through the loudspeakers.
From no more than 60 paces away, it was a blur from any vantage point on the boundary – I suspect things were hardly different from 20 yards distance.
History weighs heavy on the shoulders of Angelo, the last prince of Belmonte, as he paces the vaulted corridors of his grand palazzo by the sea.
"At Calilly's request one of them was made to show paces and gallop; the stockman suddenly wheeling his horse, charged towards the natives, which scattered them in all directions, first to their great fear and afterwards to their infinite amusement".
The boutiques, bars and churches of Vejer itself are about five paces from the door.
[Hoggart] wrote beautifully clear English, but he could sniff out deceit, prevarication or plain bullshit at 100 paces.
Winston Churchill was put through his paces on several occasions, while John Major was so outraged by his treatment at the hands of the '22 that he decided to call a leadership contest to try to reassert his authority.
Here you can watch celebrity robot Asimo go through his paces, or simply gawp in astonishment at the gigantic "geo-cosmos globe": an LCD-clad model of the Earth capable of depicting metrological data in real time.
