A caper or two on each is not amiss.
We extend greetings and trust it is not amiss to give Mr. Smith a few words of friendly counsel about the magazine business.
The first pleasant surprise was the dark burnished tone the group applied to the opening of Haydn's Quartet in G (Op. 77, No. 1), a courtly work in which a touch of velvet is not amiss, at least in the first two movements, but which also demands an ability to pivot quickly between elegance and forcefulness.
And a pinch of spice isn't amiss, either.
So too Pindar's intervention on behalf of Damophilus, a noble exile from Cyrene (Pythian ode 4), seems to have been taken amiss, and he was not invited to commemorate Arcesilas's triumph at Olympia in 460.
But when New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced last week that his administration was planning to ban sugary beverages larger than 16 ounces, that catharsis I expected to feel wasn't quite there -- something was amiss.
Some are comic set pieces, like "Disclaimers," a series of mock-official disavowals of problematic appetites and passions: about "The Rape of the Sabine Women," by Rubens, "the policy of the Museum is not to be taken amiss: / we oppose all forms of harassment".
In a federal lawsuit filed earlier this year, the Allens claim they were not aware anything was amiss until a year later when they received a letter from Bank of America, which had recently purchased the servicing rights on their loan, demanding $2,752 to bring the loan current.
When workers entered Room 20, nothing was immediately amiss: Things were not in disarray, and the only noise seemed to come from the water that had been left running.
While the Dan Ortegas of Paterson bemoan that they did not recognize sooner that something was amiss, they were not the only ones.
