If things are going very well at flagship buildings or organisations, everyone – including boards, critics and audiences – tend to want more of the same, preferably for ever, which is why the initial seasons for a new AD can be tricky if their predecessor was a big success.
In the Spanish viceroyalties of Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, and Navarre and in those of Mexico and Peru, none but Spaniards, preferably Castilians, were ever thought of at all, with the exception of one or two Italians.
Think of it as a hidden treat, intended to distract the audience's attention ever so briefly, preferably with a knowing wink.
It is cooked, ever so slowly, in fat, preferably its own.
What a microbe hunter needed to do to get funding was to hunt and kill a microbe, preferably a lethal one that nobody had ever heard of before.
Preferably creating something new that nobody has ever seen or thought of before, because that's kind of the point of originality, obviously.
Get comfortable where ever you intend to sleep, preferably on your back with soft, down pillow.
Take a few minutes to sit down with an African-American, preferably a male, and ask whether he has ever been hassled by the police.
Then he spoilt it all, by mentioning the "S-word", and suddenly the debate stopped, as ever, being about literacy and started being about "literature", preferably "great".
If Eliza Wilkins was going to be helped, in 1852 the ever practical Charles Dickens decided she first needed clean underwear and a bath – preferably two baths.
I am willing to try to again, preferably in a "modest, private affair, all to myself," but in public if I should ever be challenged.
