The other perennial habit of Italian politics, trasformismo, means something comparable: that left and right are forever blurred and that change merely masks continuity.
If it happens this September as well, Mr Reinfeldt might be forgiven for concluding that, in Sweden, the centre-right is forever jinxed by crises that are largely not of its making.
This is it: right now is forever.
The odd catch has gone astray; the runs have dried up and that right elbow is forever painful.
Counterfactuals are the byproduct of a paranoid nostalgia specific to the right, where "greatness" is forever being sabotaged by leftists, liberals or whoever.
Unlike anyone else, she wants to keep spent fuel right where it is forever, and opposes any centralized disposal or storage program.
Chocolate is forever, right?
"Every film is difficult to make... but we all in this room know very well that pain is temporary, but a film is forever, right?" Iñárritu said.
Freud, wrong about so much else, was certainly right that the mind is forever locked in internal conflict; where he talked about "id" and "ego", modern scholars see something slightly different, a clash between "ancestral systems" and more modern "deliberative cognition", but for present purposes the point is much the same.
While the answer to the question, "What is the right way to build a website?" is forever evolving, one thing remains constant.
This was pre-war, when bright young Trinity graduates of the right lineage were forever being recruited for the forthcoming games against Hitler.
