The cab is roomy and richly appointed (I love saying that but I've never really been too clear on what exactly it means; it just sounds great "richly appointed") and comes with all the right touches like burled walnut and leather seats.
This is precisely the kind of change and growth that Nando Parrado describes: "If I had not suffered as I did, and had not been forced to stare death in the face, I would not treasure the simple, precious pleasures of my life as richly as I do".
Properly described, these games would be called second-person shooters, as the protagonist in them is a broadly identifiable You, rather than a richly drawn I, a character speaking in his own voice.
And one aspect of being creative is always thinking that it would be very nice to be richly compensated dare I say _over_compensated?
The scolding they got from the president this week suggests that they're going to be paying a price — richly deserved, I might add — for a good long time.
But, while the piece is zealously researched and richly informative, I found myself hankering occasionally for the fictional method of Peter Nichols's The National Health or the more visibly polemical style of Stella Feehily's This May Hurt a Bit.
"When we have that drink together, which we both so richly deserve, I hope we can discover a way in which the mayoralty can continue to benefit from your transparent love of London, a city whose energy conquered the world and which now brings the world together in one city," Johnson said.
The line about the Stones - "with Mick Jagger" - is so richly ludicrous, I wondered if there was some weird pastiche afoot; an attempt to deliver modern times in a deliberately stilted, anachronistic manner so as to simulate the weatherbeaten patina of a "classic".
"The quality of just about every setting, in and beyond schools, can be richly informed, I dare to say improved, if the voice of the child or young person has a legitimate place and they know it will be heard, whether or not they always get what they say they want.
They say preparation is the worst part - and they are right - but I went ahead, and 30 minutes after a procedure that was not scary, horrible or terribly uncomfortable, I was given a five-year clean bill of health and celebrated at my local deli with a double-decker corned beef sandwich that I felt I richly deserved.
