Afterward, he asks her to his room; she, it's implied, declines: Shall I drop you, he says, or shall we go back to the room for a drink?
By 1780 Robert Adam's popularity was beginning to decline, and Horace Walpole, after visiting the architect Henry Holland's new Carlton House, wrote, "How sick one shall be, after this chaste palace, of Mr. Adam's gingerbread and sippets of embroidery".
The educator E. D. Hirsch Jr. has pointed to a trend he labels the Matthew Effect, citing the Biblical injunction: " 'For unto every one that hath shall be given and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.' We've lifted up rich kids beyond their competence," he says, "while the verbal skills of the black underclass continue to decline".
When she offered it to him, saying "I give this not in love but in fear", Cornwallis graciously declined the offer, responding "Not a man of my command shall touch a single loaf".
John B. Elstrott, a Whole Foods board member and a professor of entrepreneurship at Tulane University in New Orleans, declined to discuss Mr. Mackey's future, saying only, "This too shall pass".
Even at a time when religion is declining in the West, most people remember the Biblical saying "As you sow, so shall you reap".
Shall we forgive the line at the bottom of the menu that reads, "Changes and modifications politely declined"?
Shall we take the vote away from all those middle-aged and older Americans whose brains have declined far below that of a teenager?
"Shall we say 6 June for that interview with Mike in Shirebrook?" we asked, after the MPs had declined.
But the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, which for years declined to notice the practice, now has tightened its rules to stipulate that any member known to be thus breaking the law shall be thrown out, whether he is legally convicted or not.
