"I wish I could find more to love about it," he recently observed, "but it's hard.
As one critic recently observed: "Isis is moving in on their turf".
"I'm not that talented," he recently observed with engaging modesty.
But as the pop critic Lindsay Zoladz recently observed, disdain for generic boundaries can be a kind of orthodoxy, too.
As the Times columnist Paul Krugman recently observed, California's power crisis is "first and foremost a crisis of underinvestment".
"We have recently observed that there are efforts to undermine the democratically elected ANC government," he alleged.
This means that the recently observed "pause" in surface warming may tell us nothing about longer-term global climate change.
A woman on my governing body recently observed it's more sexist than the construction industry in which she works.
The philosopher Julian Baggini recently observed British politics to be going through a rare phase of philosophical literacy.
Mr McMahon recently observed two Barnes & Noble outlets close to each other in Maryland.
Author Tom Keneally recently observed: "Gallipoli has an almost mystic place in our minds... in 1901 we managed to federate a country the size of London to Moscow.
