"It just seems designed to go on punishing people forever".
Both the constitution and the election laws included specific provisions which seemed designed to prevent her from running for election or holding high office.
At the same time, however, new features of the iPhone and iPad, which run on the AT&T network, seemed designed to consume more data.
Similarly Esme's intervention, with its invocation of Lees and talk of running away to France, also seemed designed to hammer those Romany origins home.
They seemed designed to repel hugs.
Even the plan seemed designed to stir cinematic memories.
Though the level of lighting is still not high, Borgen seems designed to get you running to the airport for a standby flight to whichever of those double-glazed countries has the greatest number of female politicians.
Everything about his relaxed demeanour, including the hole in the arm of his expensive v-neck jumper, seems designed to convey the impression that running a magazine company is a rather straightforward affair.
Its return to New York after a decade (to the Joyce Theater, where it opened on Tuesday night for a run through Sunday) seems designed to show it off in a more eclectic phase than in the past.
None, alas, seems designed to help hone negotiating skills.
