This is a reassuring idea.
The high state of security that's been imposed here is a great way to comfort ourselves with the reassuring idea that the threat will always come from outside.
But with the resurgence of violence across such a wide swath of territory – last month a bomb attack on the Grand Mosque in the Nigerian city of Kano, 5,000 miles from Peshawar, killed 120 people – the reassuring idea that there is one specific battleground where the more general counter-terrorist campaign might be won is looking far fetched.
Finding the documents enabling me to prove that Speke, far from being the prudish bore he'd been painted as by Richard Burton's biographers, had had an affair with an ex-king's wife in Uganda and had given the king and his mother remarkably modern-sounding sexual counselling – including sharing with them the reassuring idea that size didn't matter!). 4. How long did it take?
But in this instance, she seemed incapable of grasping the complicated, interlocking human dynamics that can't be measured by reassuring models — the idea that a position could be leaked, that the press might bear down, that the regulatory environment could compound all those problems.
And yet she loved her: her mind, her ideas, the reassuring beep of occasionally-returned text messages.
And yet she loved her: her mind, her ideas, the reassuring beep of occasionally returned text messages.
It sounds well thought out, complex only in the embedded ideas and reassuring — as work wear needs to be.
Yet her clothes make clear, said Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, the queen's understanding of her ongoing lifelong "performance," and it doesn't take a semiotician to read in her presentation a clear portrayal of upper-class distaste for novelty and gimmick, a resistance to foreign ideas, a reassuring matronly solidity.
That last point Williams makes is a reassuring one, and an idea consistent with Brooks' game.
