Or even if the senior receptionists are doing it, taking valuable time [rather than getting on with other, perhaps more pertinent tasks] talking about results which are normal.
"We've had one or two discussions, it's only right and pertinent to talk about them if they either get done or don't," Mowbray said.
Chris Martins of The A.V. Club praised "the everlasting gravity of [Scott-Heron]'s words and wisdom", writing that "his pained, bluesy musings are as universally human as they are perennially pertinent... Scott-Heron talks, sings, hums, and pontificates, sometimes over the beat and sometimes from deep within the snowdrift".
"It is meant to get us thinking and talking about pertinent issues of corruption, nepotism... these are serious things".
It perhaps follows that those who stare so closely at the face of climate change talk only of pertinent matters.
And the underlying critique of western chauvinism (that western-style capitalist democracy is the best model for the rest) remains pertinent when people persist in talking of development "ladders", for example.
It's not the most pertinent place to be sitting talking about death, horror, the scariest films ever made and the precise tools and vegetables best employed by sound studios to recreate the breaking open of a human head.
"On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively," she said.
The judges let the lawyers talk, interrupting only for pertinent questions, listening attentively to the answers, and (amazingly, to anyone who has ever attended a Supreme Court argument) interrupting one another not at all.
Knowledge@Wharton: Is there anything in terms of research that you're working on now that might be pertinent to what we have been talking about?
A recent article in the New York Times' "Op-Talk" blog is a pertinent example.
