But after West Ham's defeat in Sicily, the lachrymose sentimentality of the song "Bubbles" seems, once more, apposite.
And then, just as this thought arrives, something great happens — a swaying, brazenly sentimental version of "A Sunday Smile" from the new album, say — and Mr. Condon's obstinacy seems once more like his greatest virtue.
The gap between Turkey and Europe seemed once more to be widening.There followed the financial mess, set off by a government investigation into ten failed banks; an IMF pledge to provide more than $7 billion in emergency loans over the next year was needed to fend off a serious crisis.
Having finally beaten Pete Sampras's record for Grand Slam wins (and thus assuring himself, at least statistically, of the label "greatest tennis player who ever lived"), Federer has become fun to watch again — and he seems, once more, to be enjoying himself on the court.
But Ms. Jaffe took the character of the wealthy Hanna seriously enough to give her glints of recognizable human emotions, which played across her face poignantly at moments when her dashing old love Danilo seemed once more to be jilting her.
The fact that consumers are so aware of the OS is interesting to me: it seems once more to indicate we are still looking at early adopters here.
Targeted by terrorists, displaced by global competition, fractured by dissenting factions within, the United States seems once more perched on the edge of a precipice.
Those stories - of survival, and freedom, and hope - became our story, my story; the blood that had spilled was our blood, the tears our tears; until this black church, on this bright day, seemed once more a vessel carrying the story of a people into future generations and into a larger world.
The Communists seem set once more to be the largest group.
This year, the confluence of Occupy and the global financial meet-ups make local actions seem at once more hopeful — part of an international network of resistance — and all the more miniscule, singing to a dinner of leaders operating at a scale they have no realistic chance of influencing.
