"I would be quite untroubled with the state recognising same-sex couples, and giving that the term of marriage," he said.
We can think of no lovlier experience than to read a short story in which we are the hero, free from debt and the crowding infirmities of middle-age, untroubled by the state of the world, only certain that we are going to get the girl in the end.
In his book "Dianetics: The Original Thesis," Hubbard writes, "A Clear is relaxed in a fully conscious state, untroubled by aberrated fears".
I had a great Labor Day ride, taking advantage of Minnesota's network of state bike trails and cruising 60 miles untroubled by traffic on a paved, woodsy path through a region sprinkled with Paul Bunyan-iana, heading in the general direction of Minneapolis.
And yet, when it comes to my own country, he is surprisingly untroubled.
People are thus untroubled in inviting divine retribution or the power of the state to harm other people they deem immoral.
The sheriff's campaign fundraising this year appears untroubled, hauling in considerable sums from people living mostly outside the state.
And yet the cascade of failing credit and risk aversion that began there, partly as a result of inadequate supervision, has spread not just to the overstretched banking systems of Europe, but also now to untroubled banks in emerging markets.On the other hand, nation-states jealously guard the right to oversee their own banks.
In contrast, Dick Cheney's recent memoir ("In My Time") is magnificently untroubled of second thoughts, though the former vice-president spoons poison on Colin Powell, Mr Bush's secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, his national security adviser, and sometimes his own boss.
