What Frenchman or woman would speak of their loathing of gastronomy – "all that terrible fussing about what you eat"?
Criticising George Orwell for having advocated political quietism to writers, Rushdie asserted that "we are all irradiated by history, we are radioactive with history and politics" and that, "in this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss".
"Hate talking about themselves", "don't like to make a fuss", "terrible at returning emails"… there have been times this week when this feature looked like it might have to go ahead without its co-stars.
"If we're talking about empowerment, that's what her songs are – this terrible thing happens and she's going to make a fuss, not by weeping but by making a decision.
After all the fuss about Control (and I know this is terrible, but I'm not a Joy Division fan and I get the feeling I know how this film ends, so I've not actually seen it yet), there's an even bigger fuss brewing about the Todd Haynes film 'inspired by the music and many lives of Bob Dylan'.
She fussed with her hair and thought she looked terrible.
This may have to do with the frank intimacy of her tone, which is stripped of ornament and fuss, yet also, in its plainness, contains huge amounts of terrible, sublime, and contradictory feeling.
I'm sure it is lots of fuss for nothing, a mistake, but it cannot be denied — this is terrible timing.
Among all the fuss over Disney's $4.05bn purchase of Star Wars rights holder Lucasfilm in October 2012 – remember all those terrible shots of George Lucas fighting Mickey Mouse and Darth Pluto with lightsabers?
