Their friendship, we're told, consisted almost entirely of their tennis dates, yet Straus made Hirson a co-executor of his will.
Mitt Romney's stimulus plan, as far as I can tell, consists of the confidence-spurring effect of his plan to cut spending and taxes and shrink government.
In the case of "Ben, in the World," the story Ms. Lessing tells consists of little more than a series of picaresque adventures that take Ben from England to France to Brazil.
The "backlash" that launched a thousand mini-essays, so far as I can tell, consists almost entirely of a few celebrity bloggers and a lot of random people sniping at her on Twitter.
We get a deluge of emails urging us to participate in this weekly program, which as far as we can tell consists of very heavy drinking, and lots of drinking games, in all of the AOL's offices.
In fact, Ivan Drago/He-Man's muscles come from a very lean breakfast, which, as far as I could tell, consisted mainly of honey.
But neither is a prerequisite otherwise Babbage, with experience limited to being an airliner passenger and having read some Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy in translation, would not have got past the first hurdle.The selection period is about a year and a half long, all told, and consists of several stages.
The local Republican Party, in his telling, consisted of three competing factions: moderates, fiscal conservatives, and Seely's group, the social conservatives.
One might wish to do this, for example, if one thought that paradigmatic story-telling consisted of utterances that were not truth-apt (not anyway through the same mechanism as ordinary utterances), while claims about, say, ideal gases were better construed as standard sorts of assertions that were literally false.
Lefties (BBC4) made me feel quite nostalgic for a bygone age of women-only households, where male cats, let alone male children, were unwelcome, and where the catering, my spies told me, consisted largely of pulses and unidentifiable meat-free slurry.
