There's a Nabokov quote, I can't quite remember how he said it so I'll put it badly: You don't convey how horrific a situation is, how tragic, unless you convey how funny it is too".
"I feel – how to put it – I feel badly that he was not convicted.
Congress hasn't updated the fine structure for businesses behaving badly, to put it another way.
When you do these things, you are stealing lots of money from innocent people, and you are, in fact, behaving badly (to put it mildly).
"Waffle," as one frontbencher put it to me, "and badly written as well".
"He continues to feel badly, but he's put it behind him and he is moving forward," he said.
He promised no extra help, offering only to put badly behaving local authority freeholders "on watch".
We believe that significant technical changes affecting legal liability in the proposed bill will jeopardize the ability to put badly needed money into these declining properties.
To be overpaid for your first book, the argument goes, is to put yourself so badly in debt to the publisher that you become doubly mortgaged.
The spectacle of his corruption trial was an insult added to an injury New Orleans badly wishes to put behind it.
To say (as Shapiro puts it) that O'Malley "badly wanted to build a ballpark with his own money in downtown Brooklyn,... but to buy the land he would need it condemned" and that "Moses refused" ignores two crucial facts.
