With the poet Byron, we can wish it ever more power: "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean -- Roll!" PERILS OF PARLOUS These are parlous times.
These changes, economic and political, make it harder for sober economic policy to prevail, and that, in the current parlous times, is troubling.
In economically parlous times, it is more likely that advertisers and agencies will try to revamp the ads or designs deemed unacceptable than scrap them altogether.
But it will still be pizza, and it will still be delicious, and in these parlous times, it is cheap to boot.
In a language column, I asserted with zesty finality that parlous and perilous meant the same thing, that only pompous commentators intoned "These are parlous times," and that perilous should triumph.
But Mr. Sachs does not have that luxury in these parlous times: Summergarden has been reduced to four Sundays, two devoted to concerts by the Juilliard players, and two by ensembles from Jazz at Lincoln Center.
In a sign of the parlous times for publishers, The Independent's owner had to pay to cut it loose, agreeing to contribute £9.25 million (about $13.7 million), to its operation over 10 months.
Attending matches is not cheap, especially in these parlous times and, after a hard week, some modern fans have no time for underperforming players, particularly not those who earn in a week what they do in a year.
It needs to be pointed out that this greater security comes from these institutions' underlying ethos of mutuality – a characteristic that, as Michael Stephenson argues, we need a lot more of in these parlous times.
In such parlous times, I felt a little guilty about indulging at length in reading for mere pleasure — the one lacuna in Merrill's cosmopolitanism was politics, which he seems to have found boring — but only a formidable pleasure was capable of drawing me away from the news, and for the sake of my mental health I decided I had to license it.
