"This was the part I liked," she thinks, "straightforward tasks of love and order that I could perform with ease".
This is music whose simplicity is complex, whereas the complexity of Mr. Boulez's music may be thought thoroughly straightforward.
Certainly, the still-quite-vocal "Bring Back TOTP" brigade are on to a loser if they think a straightforward chart show has a role on television in 2013.
Just in case you're one of those high-minded people who refuses to click on Daily Mail links, the central thrust of Vine's piece is that while she doesn't agree with Rees-Mogg's views on abortion and gay marriage, she thinks his straightforward answers mark him out as an authentic figure in a sea of politically correct wooly liberal snowflake lefty blah blah something about free speech blah.
In order to measure something you thought was fairly straightforward, you really have to take into account a series of things that aren't so straightforward.
In an exact parallel to the situation on Robben Island, the first five rows of German jackbooted officers admired what they thought was a straightforward piece of classical culture, but the French audience behind them knew what it was about".
"It was, one might have thought, a relatively straightforward task to photograph 30 world leaders and dignitaries, but whoever first noted the particular challenge presented by herding cats has never been to a G20 summit," writes the Guardian's Esther Addley.
But my effort was to try to mute the political content of the language as much as possible, and I thought that the straightforward (and accurate, in my view) use of the familiar term "illegal immigrant" would not call attention to itself.
As we worked through the process, some of the things we thought would be straightforward turned out to be harder than expected, and some things we thought would be difficult turned out to be relatively easy.
Second, because Aristotle's hylomorphism was initially developed to handle puzzles of change and generation, its deployment in philosophical psychology is sometimes strained, insofar as Aristotle is not immediately willing to treat every instance of perception and thought as a straightforward instance of change in some continuing subject.
