But Francona — no generational peer of Torre's, 19 years younger — was in effect reminding us that Torre, way beyond caricature, has not only won for 12 years but has been the grounding presence inside the Yankees' electrical storm of obsession.
When he remarked that the dedication would "doubtless promote the sale of the work," Romberg was in effect reminding his publisher that Haydn's name could be used in the service of advertisement, much as it had been for Mozart.
Arguably, with its uncompromising photorealism, this week's forensic reconstruction of his face will have a salutary effect, reminding us that Bolívar wasn't, in the first instance, an idea, or an adjective, or a thought, but instead a man — a human being subject to all the foibles inherent to our species.
To remind patients of their authority, through the display of discontent, physicians are in effect reminding patients of their relative inferiority and the value of the physician's time as a resource.
Accustomed to directing episodes for the television series, Frakes was frequently reminded by effects artist Terry Frazee to "think big, blow everything up".
But the uproar highlights the problems associated with having a leading shareholder (as Chinalco might become with Rio) with potentially differing interests to other investors.A rights issue would also have the unfortunate effect of reminding shareholders of how much better off they might have been had Rio not rebuffed the advances of BHP.
It had the effect of reminding that crowd of spontaneous mourners of their own refuted humanity.
In that connection he explores myth, the functions of these predators in various religions, their chastening effect in reminding us that we are, after all... meat.
It was a little awkward, a six-second clip that had the unfortunate effect of reminding people that Morrison used to be a big deal.
This all has the effect of reminding us what an implausible object of obsession Paul really is — a vacant man-child who appears to be waging a two-hour audition for a remake of "Velvet Goldmine".
