Post-Miranda, the "unfailingly kind" Diana became Decca's favourite sister, a position later filled by the monstrous Unity.
But from 1940, when he published his tercentenary essay, The English Revolution 1640, his own voluminously expanding and unfailingly literate work became the starting point of most subsequent interpretation, even for those who rejected his method and conclusions.
He finds abundant theatricality within even the most mundane surroundings; and though there is much about the script that now seems tired, the characters capture Waterhouse's flat, West Yorkshire repartee with such conviction that they become unfailingly hilarious simply by virtue of opening their mouths.
It becomes apparent that she is self-deprecating, hesitant, contemplative, unfailingly polite, more comfortable asking a question than answering one - though at the same time matter-of-factly candid.
(Sample joke: "What did you major in — crying in the shower?") While the writing is unfailingly predictable and never more than adequate, "How Sweet It Is" becomes almost watchable, thanks mostly to Mr. Bergen and to the uncannily tenacious hold (for some viewers, at least) of a put-on-a-show plot.
Since its launch 17 years ago, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award has become an unfailingly reliable guide to the best new British literary talent.
After the premiere, Ippolito Valetta of Nueva antologia wrote, "[Puccini] finds in his palette all colours, all shades; in his hands, the instrumental texture becomes completely supple, the gradations of sonority are innumerable, the blend unfailingly grateful to the ear".
"George," as he unfailingly calls Bush, "and I became friends, family friends...
As "Friends" and "Seinfeld" would later, in its afterlife "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" became a reassuring, unfailingly funny end to the day, as much a social phenomenon as a sitcom.
But nearly six months later, politicians are still deadlocked over forming a government, and the glares at the sport-utility vehicles that ferry them and their gun-toting entourages from air-conditioned offices to air-conditioned homes, after meetings unfailingly described as "positive," have become sharper.
As we approached the assembly area, with the skies delivering unfailingly regular bursts of drizzle, it became clear that we would be walking side by side with a class from Roligheden School.
