("What's a widget?" scores pretty low, for instance, but the answer is just two paragraphs away).
You Pretty Things, for instance, repackaged Aleister Crowley's sinister occult millennialism as a bar-room singalong.
Occasionally - on the druggy, crimson-hued Pretty Girls, for instance - his monotonous rhythms sound plush and hypnotic; for the most part, however, they are thuddingly dull.
Why? You'd think there'd have been something slightly more au courant – the London Olympics were pretty epic, for instance.
I'm pretty sure, for instance, that my husband still doesn't know my phone number, which he stored on his phone on the day we met, whereas I remember his because he wrote it down for me on a tiny scrap of paper that I pinned to my bulletin board, where it gradually accrued meaning.
It's probably based on a combination of current concerns (such as high cholesterol readings) and past perceptions -- that you're a relatively fit person who eats pretty well, for instance.
"We learn pretty interesting things, for instance who prefers Wal-Mart over Target, or Walgreens over CVS, who is split, which stores they will travel to get to," said Thaddeus Fulford-Jones, chief of Locately, a location analytics company.
Your best option, perhaps, is to zone out from the implausible kinks in the setup — husband and wife seem to live a pretty fancy life, for instance, given that she is a non-writing writer and he creates recipes based exclusively on chicken.
I think you need a pretty precise saw (read: laser) to make something pretty (as a gift for instance), but a bandsaw should be sufficient to make your initials in block letters.
He has engaged in pretty naked populism, too, for instance in calling for a "gas-tax holiday".
