(By contrast, the most recent celebrities to separate, Zoë Ball and Norman Cook, were always extremely open about their struggles with infidelity, addiction and the general mundanity of marriage. For this reason, the announcement of their split felt to me like the saddest of all).
"He's got split personalities" – to me that smacks of a "pick a problem, any problem" approach to character-design from decades gone by.
"I never knew my parents together, so their split meant nothing to me," Churchill said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in 2008.
"The real split, it seems to me," said the historian and Thomas Dewey biographer Richard Norton Smith, "is between those Americans, a majority in my opinion, who at least say they want to see politicians trying to work across the aisle and the political system as it has actually evolved, with gerrymandered districts and talk radio and much of the media coverage reinforcing the tyranny of the base".
"Splitting the baby, to me, was sending the wrong message," he said.
Then she ran back to me, split it in half again, smiled and said thank you," said Chang.
The record, to me, splits up into three different four-song segments, the first four ending in a sort of anthemic ballad, "Continents Drift," the second four ending in another one, "Here We Go Again," and the final four ending with a funny song about the South, "In The Low Country".
7. to separate (something) into its components by interposing something else 8. to betray the trust, plans, etc (of); inform: he split on me to the cops.
It never occurred to me to split up.
