(Mr. Cohn had tested out this very remark one day before the trial began. He apparently had it stashed away, waiting to use it in open court).
About ten minutes before eleven, Hugh Hewitt, the conservative radio presenter, posted on his Web site the very remarks that Romney was about to deliver.
"We agree with our fellow Council members -- and indeed, with the wider world -- about the folly and illegitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity," asserted U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice in the very remarks that served to veto the measure.
We have moved on, of course, from the days in which Norman Mailer could plausibly put his name to a book entitled Of Women and their Elegance (that very "of", as Martin Amis once remarked, almost guaranteeing the project's naffness), but just how far have we moved, and where to?
Another over-the-top, whatever-came-to-his-mind-at-that-very-second remark?
(Patient 12) Almost all patients (11/12) critically remarked that very little or no information was given to them following their FMS diagnosis.
I think that remark is very, very good.
The important thing in the end, as Anna Ford very wisely remarked, is that "the inside and the outside match".
(The observation is often attributed to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York senator who died in 2003, but the editor of a revised edition of The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs noted last year that a very similar remark was made in 1950 by Bernard M. Baruch, an American financier who advised Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the economy).
In March, he told a French television programme: "Regarding Hyper Cacher, we admitted very quickly that the remark made by one of our journalists about the possible presence of a hostage in the coldroom was inappropriate, that it was an error.
The Japanese government told a counselor at the South Korean Embassy in Tokyo that "the remark is very regrettable as it is not based on a correct understanding of the accident," informed sources said Monday.
