More blokey and garrulous, less abrasive and boorish, Farage narrowed the focus to Europe and, by doing so, widened the far right's appeal.
I imagined the prize would, while including English-speaking writers of course, want to celebrate the work of translation and of translators who so widen our understanding of other countries, other cultures.
Thus The Sopranos narrowed its focus to Tony and Carmela's marriage and in doing so widened its world; The Wire headed to school, providing their most heartbreaking episodes in the process, and Mad Men gave us a season so tightly scripted, particularly in its middle third, that everything Don Draper has done since has felt like a letdown.
As the pope touched down in the US from Cuba, Democratic leaders in Congress and environmental campaigners were optimistic that Francis would keep the focus on his core themes of the global economic order, poverty and environmental degradation over the next six days, and so widen the emerging fractures in the Republican wall of denial.
Although nothing can be done about it, the small size of our sample also induces less precision in the estimated parameters and so widens the confidence intervals around the forecasts.
For almost two hours, my students and I talked about the importance of voice and perspective in column writing, and discussed how the digital era has so widened the literary platform that now almost anyone can be a published writer.
By including and cross-fertilizing so many distinct but related expressive modes, Chance adds yet another layer to this centuries-old interplay, ever so slightly widening its focus.
If so, two widening projects — one south of the New Jersey Turnpike's notorious "merge" near Exit 8A and the other on the Garden State Parkway — should be placed on hold.
