For Rice, this is not only an unforgivable renunciation of county sovereignty, but "a perpetual marketing thing" that the county commissioners employ in order to claim more money.
Well, except for that little "civilizational collapse, mass starvation, and perpetual warfare" thing right up ahead.
It suggests that, as confirmation of their love, he should appear before her "yellow-stockinged and cross-gartered" and bearing a perpetual smile, all things Olivia in fact detests.
I was writing for many, many years and I was not among the prizes at all or I was a perpetual runnerup, and things have changed in a big way.
Instead, we just get perpetual promises that things are getting better when in fact the opposite may be happening.
The violence is gruesome, and perpetual, but the whole thing leaves nothing behind but a moonshine hangover.
Anyone who cooks knows that it is in following recipes that one first learns the anticlimax of the actual, the perpetual disappointment of the thing achieved.
After 44 minutes and 17 seconds of this sort of thing, our perpetual motion machine begins its descent back to what we will laughingly refer to as reality.
More recently, Adam Gopnik wrote a long essay about cookbooks in the New Yorker in which he claimed, among other things, that one of the functions of recipes is to accustom us to "the anticlimax of the actual, the perpetual disappointment of the thing achieved".
