As played by Mr. Weston, it felt like a patently Monkish move.
And if Mr. Assad rejects it, such a patently unreasonable move might actually offer the best hope yet of splitting his government and controlling the resulting collapse.
Even when he began making patently foolish political/policy moves, clearly listening to voices who had been consistently wrong in their areas of expertise (economics for one, warfare for another), it was assumed he was playing a game so deep, so intricate, mounting a strategy so multi-dimensional that the rest of us mortals should simply sit back and sigh in awe.
The claims were denied by Olav Fykse Tveit, the general secretary of the WCC, who accused the Israeli authorities of discrimination by singling out the only African member of the delegation, describing the move as "patently unjust and discriminatory action against Phiri".
This seemingly absurd statement is typical of the startling leaps made by the characters in Ms. Ruhl's work, which blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving.
Helen had visited the museum when she first moved to Los Angeles, thrilled by the city's oddities in the way, she now knew, so many new immigrants were — as if kitsch could justify their decision to move to this patently unglamorous place.
The move struck many people as patently partisan because Mr. Chávez regularly wore clothes made up of the national colors and patterned on the flag and used vast amounts of government resources to promote his re-election.
To be sure, corporate greenwash is an increasingly contentious topic around the globe — and it has moved far beyond the regulation of patently false claims.
The latest rhetoric was immediately condemned by Barghouti, who dismissed the recent moves as a "panic-driven, racist and patently propagandistic Israeli attack on the movement".
Golf is so routinely insane and patently irresolvable that the overriding job becomes keeping everyone in the group moving forward.
