Or perhaps, looking a little closer to home, these pictures of antiquated technology are an unconscious tribute to his mentors' photographs of the "anonymous sculptures" of the industrial age -- a tribute made particularly timely not long ago when Mr. Ruff took over Bernd Becher's teaching post at the Düsseldorf academy.
But Timothy Spall earned it long ago, particularly in association with the director Mike Leigh.
Currencies and shares have tumbled, from Brazil to Indonesia, but one country has been particularly badly hit.Not so long ago India was celebrated as an economic miracle.
Things like chanting "death to America," burning effigies of Uncle Sam and painting murals of Lady Liberty with a skull as a face lost their impact long ago, particularly among younger Iranians.
When you're freewheeling through ideas that you yourself have collated -- particularly when you'd long ago forgotten about them -- there's something about the experience that seems uncannily like freewheeling through the corridors of your own memory.
"Unfortunately, that horse has bolted long ago, particularly in a world where in the UK, with the BBC, you have a big, free news provider … so that's reality.
Furthermore, poor recall of seizures, particularly those that occurred long ago, could have led to underestimation of incidence.
It is notoriously hard to secure convictions in sexual assault cases, particularly ones that took place long ago.
This universal attitude struck me particularly hard because not so long ago I called one of the top recruiters in Silicon Valley to ask about whether they could fill a senior role for me.
"It isn't that long ago clubs, particularly those in the top flight, were solemnly insisting that ignoring the views of fans would be akin to financial suicide," it added.
All food materials contain phosphorus, a particularly durable marker of food from long ago.
