When I watch Nick Saban, it is hard for me to tell how much difference he is really making out there, notwithstanding the nervous pacing and urgent back-and-forth over the headphones.
Pre-game comparisons of Carolina's character as a big team that favours close range shooting and Villanova's urgent back-to-front style set this up as a size-versus-speed contest where UNC would dominate in the paint.
"There is a need for an urgent, back-to-basics review of Ofsted, as there are big question marks over the quality of judgements following what has happened in Rotherham and Birmingham, among others," he said.
He also has an urgent problem back home: a collapsing garden wall belonging to an elderly constituent, whose son (the comic actor Steve Coogan) unfortunately has Simon's cellphone number, a lot of free time and a serious anger management problem.
While citing urgent matters back in England as being his reason for stepping down, when prodded, he broke down, blurting out his concern that God's judgment would "come upon us for these differences and dissensions".
The quality of the meeting was perhaps best reflected by an equally urgent stampede back to the conference center in time for the evening sessions and posters.
And on "Never Want to Live Without You" there's nothing more urgent than getting back to fidelity: "Thank you for the chance/ To run back to your arms/ Where I belong".
But now I often have trouble remembering what else seemed so almighty urgent to me back then.
It was May, season of the first strong storms; it was urgent to get back to the Plain of Jars before the route was cut off".
But now there is an even more urgent reason to back the bombing of somewhere or other, which is we must do it for the refugees.
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — The retirees came from near and far, gathering in a muggy auditorium here to listen to an urgent pitch: give back a big chunk of your pension or risk losing it all.
