Practically everyone alive capable of using a cellphone remembers when we didn't have them.
The ice cream machine itself practically comes alive -- a "steel, piston-pumping, cream-dripping, gadget-whirring, water-spraying, pipe-rattling, chocolate-leaking animal".
Jan van Kessel's "Still Life With Lemon," for instance, practically came alive in the corner of the room dedicated to Dutch and Flemish artists, revealing hidden caterpillars and other insect life that hardly seemed to be still at all.
Kim Dotcom, by contrast, has more assets than practically any human alive.
Galileo Galilei may seem like the ghost of another era, but by Catholicism's slow-ticking clock he was alive practically yesterday.
"Apollo at 70" is nominally about the theater's star acts, but Mo'Nique, the host of "Showtime at the Apollo," does introduce a quick montage of amateur-night performers practically being eaten alive, and the specter of those hopeful, desperate Wednesday nights looms over the whole special -- somewhere between center stage and the back row.
In "Devouring Devouring," an aptly named new work by the choreographer Netta Yerushalmy, the dancers practically ate the stage alive.
This stuff was real, alive, and practically dancing its bubbly way around me, making me dizzy with delight.
Practically all cancer patients alive in 1968 or born thereafter, and their children were identified from accurate population registries.
It may make things look better in the most obvious places, but it's bound to kill off practically everything that's still alive there.
