He refused to participate in the debates, which were shown on little-watched cable channels, and he postponed a call-in show, perhaps because when he sent proxies to a town-hall-style meeting, they encountered angry constituents.
Perhaps the injunction he sent to a young man who had written asking for guidance about life points to a fundamental characteristic of Berlin as a letter-writer: "Do not do anything that bores you".
If Mr Bayrou does end up among the top six or seven candidates this weekend, perhaps he should send Yacine some pocket-money to ease the pain.
Perhaps he is sending up the notion of heritage, preserving his own in aspic, rather like Miss Havisham's wedding banquet, except that most of the bugs here are dead.
Katis has a punchy, restrained command of action; perhaps he can send a few tips to frenzied over-stylist Matthew Vaughn, whose jumped-up espionage romp Kingsman: The Secret Service (Fox, 15) is the kind of knowingly irresponsible splatterfest one could gladly excuse as "a bit of fun" if any fun were to be had in it.
Perhaps she sent her laundry out.
Which perhaps explains why, when he sent Bobby back, Peter issued a CYA regulation on Lazy Gene.
But on Nov. 13, when he announced that Mr. Mohammed and four co-conspirators would face a civilian trial, Mr. Holder did not explain the problems with the commissions, perhaps because that same day he sent five other detainee cases to the military.
Last year at the winter meetings, Alderson said that perhaps he should have sent Jose Reyes a box of chocolates when he signed with the Miami Marlins, in response to Reyes's claim that the Mets did not even call to make a final offer or to say goodbye.
