Or as key stylist Eugene Souleiman put it: simultaneously perfect and imperfect.
"$40,000," gasps Miranda, "there's your down-payment".The new consumers of luxury goods are, as Mr Silverstein puts it, "simultaneously trading up and trading down".
By pressing ourselves into service, by bearing witness, we can learn the delicate balance of holding history, as Wildman puts it, "selectively, simultaneously close and at a distance".
As journalist George Monbiot once put it, nations are trying simultaneously to "reduce demand for fossil fuels and increase supply".
It's a state of spiritual hunger and dissatisfaction, of restlessness and curiosity, of excitement and anticipation, in which one is, as Nick puts it, "within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life".
In this view, the child was a fetish offered up by Munchausen mothers so that they might keep alive a relationship with an idealized authority figure, or, as Schreier and Libow put it, "to entice and simultaneously control their powerful, professional victims".
On Saturday night, the Writers Guild of America awards - or the "introverted Emmys" as the New York host, Kristen Schaal, put it - doled out their prizes simultaneously and bicoastally, as usual.
RS: Well, as a drummer you have to play four things simultaneously, and try to put it all together.
Cutting shapes from prepainted paper, he formed the contour and the internal area of a shape simultaneously, eliminating as he put it, "the eternal conflict between drawing and color" (2 ).
The DIA could likely receive a hefty revenue stream while simultaneously putting its collection to work as an active cultural emissary for the city.
