Nevertheless, people are always ready to proclaim things at the beginning.
Diners proclaim things like "Oh my God, I'd hang any of these in my apartment," and, fittingly, a yellow-and-black drawing by Matt Mullican incorporates the declaration "I love to work for Truth and Beauty".
As the band let loose its theme song, "Thin Man," pockets of fans flashed red banners with white Chinese characters proclaiming things lik, "Love My Thin Man," although the crowd remained mostly sedate.
The myth of the other girl can be seen in passive aggressive tweets by girls proclaiming things like, "I hate girls".
I talked up Carri at the counter, taking note of such kitschy wall mementos as surfboards, water skis and vanity license plates that proclaim things like "skierup," suggesting a tropical Jimmy Buffett feel right here in the middle of the desert.
On arrival at the Momentum fringe conference, "The World Transformed" the front page of stacked copies of the Morning Star proclaimed: "Things can only get better" – an obvious nod to Tony Blair's 1997 election victory.
His Community Service Announcements (CSA) are warm and fuzzy affirmations for inherently flawed beings, proclaiming things like, "Be Your Own Guru," "Don't Use Others to Get Ahead," and "Hold It Together".
Alternatively, the fad for proclaiming that things are what we need right now desperately needs to stop.
In his "Ode (Inscribed to W. H. Channing)" (1846), Ralph Waldo Emerson saw the resistentialist writing on the wall and proclaimed that "Things are in the saddle,/And ride mankind".
Loudly and often we hear it proclaimed that things aren't what they used to be, that Britain is heading in the wrong direction and that life was simpler and better in the not-too-distant past.
