"Refined," as Wilson notes, originally meant "processed," and, gastronomically speaking, still does.
They are, generally speaking, still profitable, but they can't help but sulk after the crumbling of their boom-time dreams.
In pure number terms, today's figures are relatively speaking still some way away from the levels of the Soviet crash.
It's a strange sensation being surrounded by coconut palms and rainforest, more than 4,000 miles from home yet knowing you are, technically speaking, still in Europe.
It is also the first book ever sold by her agent, Seth Fishman, who is 30, and the second book bought by her editor, Noah Eaker, who was 26 when he acquired it and, strictly speaking, still an editorial assistant.
But whereas some misbegotten shows do a self-evident crash-and-burn — or announce their ill-advised intentions with perverse gusto — "Viva Forever!" on opening night arrived at the halfway point as if everyone involved were, figuratively speaking, still waiting in the wings.
He slips into art-history speak, still talking at warp speed.
The fate of "Starry" is, so to speak, still up in the air.
Woods coughed occasionally as he spoke, still feeling lingering symptoms from a flu he caught last month.
One patient, a 50-year-old man who had a breathing tube down his throat and was unable to speak, still remained unidentified on Sunday evening, officials said.
When interrupted at one point, he declared: "I'm still speaking, I'm still speaking, I'm still speaking".
