The reality is usually rather different.
"I'm usually rather bad tempered when I lose," she said.
Occasionally there is more to them than meets the eye, usually rather less.
If anything, they reveal more about his circumstances — usually rather desperate — than his genetic character type.
They harass people and organisations they dislike, but usually rather ineptly.
"He spoke with great passion, in a meeting that is usually rather dry," said the nonpartisan veteran attendee.
Projectile points vary widely but are usually rather large and crude and are stemmed or broadly notched for hafting.
Worms typically have an elongated, tubelike body, usually rather cylindrical, flattened, or leaflike in shape and often without appendages.
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon Jonathan Cape £17.99, pp390 A spot of bother, like a bit of trouble, is usually rather a lot.
The wives, mothers and sisters most often remain on the periphery, and are usually rather stern authority figures to be kept at arm's length.
And, before anyone mentions Margaret Thatcher, she was usually rather cautious and sensitive to parliament, more so than Tony Blair was, I am sorry to say.
