If Brown's premiership had gone without a hitch, each new decision an easy one, each new crisis patently manageable, then no one would ever have had a reason to encounter Brown's "dark side".
That subject is front and center this week after President Trump tried to address why he hadn't called the families of four soldiers killed in Niger Oct. 4, saying his predecessors rarely called family members — patently false — then on Wednesday called the widow of one of the Niger soldiers and reportedly said, "He knew what he signed up for".
There is a balance to be drawn between a long-term project of development and results but, if things are patently not working, then all other considerations go by the board.
The pair came into this huge match all square, Nadal having won their opening meeting over three sets last year in Miami when Federer was patently tired, and then at the same venue, Key Biscayne this April, the Swiss came from two sets and 4-1 down in the third to win in five sets.
Even as he apologized and acknowledged that there was indeed a problem, he was joined by Scott Forstall, a senior vice president at Apple, who attacked an article in The New York Times that blamed an interaction with the phone's software as "patently false," and then Mr. Jobs went on to call a Bloomberg article that suggested the company knew about the problem last year a "total crock".
The Iranian regime has delegitimized itself, first by conducting a patently dishonest election, then by using brutal methods to stop the protests, and now again in their most recent hypocrisy.
Then a patently made-up bloke arrives at her car and rounds out her piece oh-so-neatly by apparently telling her "not all men are monsters" while paying the remainder of her toll for her.
If, as one assumes, it is Chesterton himself who is speaking through Grant, then it was patently his ambition, in all of his shorter texts, to write fiction that would turn out to be stranger than truth.
If the idea was to make it easier for referees to manage the scrum, then that has patently failed, as has the attempt to reduce the number of resets.
If I'm right about the net effecting a transformation in our communications environment comparable to that wrought by Gutenberg, then it's patently absurd for me (or anyone else) to pretend to know what its long-term impact will be.
