In short, the fuss and chaos about these appallingly presented NHS reforms has served at least one purpose: yanking the Tories out of the hole they dug for themselves by showily ring-fencing the NHS budget before the last election.
In September, the state showily sued six car manufacturers, alleging they had damaged its climate.
But their style was showily indebted to television, advertising and fashion, and no apology was made for marrying the art film to pop culture.
But as a choir began singing the "Ode to Joy", most jumped to their feet (the Austrian chancellor, Alfred Gusenbauer, showily singing along).It took an instant longer for some, including Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, to stand.
Though he is neither as showily cerebral as the current prime minister nor as scintillating a retail politician as the previous one, Mr Cameron is adept in both settings.Such roundedness may contribute to the leader of the opposition's lack of definition ("Who is David Cameron?", The Economist once asked on its cover).
By now, it was four in the afternoon — right around the time that some blue-collar workers finish their shift and head for the nearest seedy tavern and other blue-collar workers are just getting ready to go to work, either in beat-up old cars or in showily new ones that they can't really afford — and I had to get back to the city.
What is also striking about the book is how much it is taken up with a seemingly endless series of metaphors, alternatively highdramatic, technological, showily erudite, and religio-spiritual.
But her refusal to dress showily is part of her naturalness, which is preferable to the puffily frozen faces of the actresses who have attempted, through surgery, to preserve their youth and who can no longer stretch their mouths into full smiles.
It was an inspired way of representing the passing of time in a medium necessarily inert and space-bound: unlike sculptures in marble or plaster, showily outlasting their makers, these sculptures would fall apart at roughly the same rate as a human body, like a companion one's own age.
Her consciousness was filled to the brim with her contact — astonishing because she was so virgin in contacts — with the boys' warm bodies, lapping against her; she didn't even much mind Nigel's chin resting showily on her shoulder, when he leaned over from his perch in the back.
The family moved into a gigantic house, and practically an entire episode was spent on Kate showily cleaning a disgusting fridge that the previous owners had left behind.
