It is sad that the shadow of apartheid is still so long in South Africa that blacks and whites can tell the same narrative in quite different ways, each suspecting the motives of the other.
Still, so long as the hierarchy exists — so long as Charney, as C.E.O., had the power to fire anyone else — it is unpersuasive to maintain that a sexual encounter between him and another employee could happen on equal footing.
Still, so long as the likes of Vladimir V. Putin and Hu Jintao indulge the likes of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the late Kim Jong-il, these hopeful visions of disarmament may have to wait until the day after it is too late.
Still, so long as the fish remain healthy, this exhibition shows Mr. Hirst moving beyond the dead animals and putrefying flesh that catapulted him to fame while clarifying and enriching the grandiose themes of his art: life and death and their complex, sometimes oppressive relationship to science and commerce.
To try to attend to my own state of mind while this is happening would be to throw myself abruptly out of it, back to a place where there's nothing to feel but that I'm cold from sitting still so long, and wouldn't mind visiting the cottage cheese pot in the fridge, with a teaspoon.
Still, no doubt about it, for a 16-year-old to write a novel, to put so many pages together, one following the next, to remember his characters' names, to try his hand at a sex scene, to sit still so long, is an achievement.
And notwithstanding Parliament's vote, Swiss banking confidentiality is also still intact, so long as the account is tax-compliant.
But then, time has stood still for so long.
In Britain, competition is still tolerated so long as the rules of the game are just.
Then my husband stopped moving, and stood still for so long I forgot where he was.
"But still, after so long, you're very cautious to believe it's going to stay on".
