These events are usually spoken of as "collapses," but Scott invites us to scrutinize that term, too.
Mr Luzhkov has started praising the talents and leadership of the prime minister, Vladimir Putin odd behaviour for a man who usually speaks of the "Yeltsin regime".
Language itself conspires toward this sort of asymmetry: we fall into error, but do not usually speak of falling into truth.
"We do not usually speak of personal characteristics, personal effects, personal correspondence, personal influence or personal tragedy as referring to corporations and other artificial entities," he wrote.
Even among detractors here and abroad, he is not usually spoken of in the same breath of, say, Mr. Mugabe, who is widely blamed for transforming a once prosperous country into one of the world's poorest.
The celesta music that Tchaikovsky wrote for the "Nutcracker" Sugar Plum Fairy usually speaks of enchantment; but these two men hear it in terms of modern women, both bewildered and amused by falling in love.
Indeed, Mr. Gandhi's future prime ministership is usually spoken of as an inevitability – as though the only serious question is whether he will have to wait until the next election, in 2014.
Those who have seen his hypnotic plays, which feature mostly wordless images in front of saturated colors and shrieking feedback, usually speak of his mysterious stagings as unforgettable, if also disturbing, events.
By Brendan Gill The New Yorker, November 20, 1943 P. 23 Charlotte Watkins was usually spoken of as "the perfect doctor's wife," and Dr. Watkins, one of the town's most successful physicians, as "poor little Harvey".
The second part, which is mostly prose and usually speaks of Jeremiah in the third person, probably owes its composition to Baruch, the scribe who, according to chapter 36, wrote the prophecies against Israel and Judah and all the nations from Jeremiah's dictation.
