This song has the makings of a hit, from the Donna Summer-y intro, the bold melisma… even guest rapper Wale sounds like he's having "just enough" fun, instead of his customary "too much".
I had the beginnings of a word,... maybe miles away, maybe too far for customary use, and it would remain, a delusive harbinger of night, a word unborn, doomed to remain unsaid as humm — or thal — unable to complete itself because of my aphasic ineptitude".
By making the Americans cruel, too, he escapes the customary division of good and evil along national lines, but he escapes any sense of moral accountability as well.
Salter's publisher, Harper, and others rejected the novel, citing the customary complaints — too repetitive, unlikable characters — though Salter surmised that it was the sex that put them off.
In fact, Sunday's celebrating had begun minutes before, with the game still in progress, with North Carolina vainly scrambling around the court, as if trying to correct some stupid mistake, as if it still weren't too late to retrieve customary victory.
The king will probably be too frail to make his customary birthday speech.
In Tennessee, the adjusted results were not distributed to teachers and principals until late summer, too late to play their customary role in many districts' decisions on summer school or student promotion.
"In glossing over her husband's actions and abetting his efforts to squirm away from the scrutiny and judgment they provoke, Hillary has too often lapsed into her customary hauteur and self-righteousness and added to the pain delivered upon these women".
Health insurance plans maintain the right to deny coverage if the cost for medical care is too high -- that is, not customary.
When you add such choice into the British state education system, the customary listlessness that accompanies too many options can give way to pure panic.
