The adult is almost there but vital things are missing.
Distance translated into a lack of vital things.
It has to leave out vital things because they don't warrant source-hunting.
"Would you give me a reading on his vital things, if you please?" Robert says.
There's a huge backlog of vital things that need doing round the house, as your partner always reminds you.
Yet still Rove could have been just another Republican political adviser were it not for two vital things.
Carla Sozzani says that cooking relaxes Alaïa, freeing up his mind to concentrate on more vital things.
A life in print should offer two vital things: a light on the wider world, and lovely prose.
"There are three vital things - you have to keep working hard, keep humble, and keep wanting to achieve something.
"People think the only vital things happen in Europe and America, but that hasn't been true for a long time," he said.
"Diversity of the media is one of the most vital things for democracy and that diversity is under serious threat in Turkey," he said.
