When devoManc broke cover in November, other cities were not pleased, so much so that Bernstein worried that Manchester's exceptionalism might undermine the deal.
We're actually pleased so much mass media arrived to cover the story, although we're a little disappointed that it happened just now, not two months ago.
Briefly accepting the Royal Philharmonic award from McDowell and disposing of it, he turns to the matter in hand: rearrangement of the musicians' seating – "Everyone forward two metres, please" – so as to project that much more forcefully.
They want to please you so much.
It would please me so much if I could — it fills me with suppressed wariness that I don't.
Sometimes Baryshnikov wants to please me so much he'll even try tap dancing with Liza Minnelli, risking the scorn of the purists.
"She was so emphatic, and I wanted to please her so much, that by the end of the rehearsal tears started welling up in my eyes, and my throat started closing.
It breaks my heart to argue [with open culture evangelists] because it would please me so much to say: "Oh yes, those old ideas we had when we were young were perfect and I'm so happy to have brought you this gift" and so on.
Child-led activities like this, and the notion that children can come and go as they please, underpin so much of what goes on in nurseries.
