I'd felt acutely that there was no excuse for it under the circumstances, despite perennial existential crises, the forgotten sorrows of a distant childhood, slight wrongs done to people now dead, the truth that I am not Tolstoy, the absence in this world of perfect love, and those impulses of greed and uncharitableness which lie too close to the heart — that sort of thing.
Between 2000 and 2010 he made numerous reports about perceived slights and wrongs against him.
What else can I say, except that old retainer of slights and wrongs, that bad boy I hadn't quite outgrown — I'd brought him along, too.
What else can I say, except that old retainer of slights and wrongs,that bad boy I hadn't quite outgrown — I'd brought him along, too.
How fuzzy the glow would have been if the chopper, whose manoeuvre was frightening even to those watching at a distance, had made the slightest of wrong moves is probably a question best left alone.
Kate Winslet, who took her voyage to megastardom on Titanic, had a similarly tough time :'Jim would lose it if anything was the slightest bit wrong.' Yet actor Bill Paxton, friend and collaborator of Cameron's for more than 25 years, hints at self-knowledge.
My sister and I were like soldiers under the vicious regime of a tyrant, scared to put even the slightest foot wrong through fear of sadistic retribution – yet suffering that very fate regardless.
"Mother!" dramatizes the inevitable connection between casual slights and grievous wrongs, the slippery slope that inescapably binds dismissive or insulting or contemptuous actions on an intimate scale with acts of grievous violence.
Even a slight intimation is just wrong that anyone will not look after a player's best interests.
Somehow, though (and I could be wrong), a slight residue of an archaic will to power seems to survive on the bike paths of Berlin.
"If, as some people have suggested, more of David's supporters have left the party since 2010 than Ed's, that slight adjustment might be wrong; Mr Corbyn's support could be slightly higher than we think," he said.
