We are all prisoners of this tacky culture, her novel suggests, and we might as well steady one another by telling a few jokes while we're planning our breakout.
Neither scrap of news is particularly welcome to fans of the old British and Irish golf, so here's some better news: McDowell is going well, steady as you like, -1 through 13, while Poulter is hanging in there, level par after 12. Lee Westwood in action on day one.
Frame your subject (which must be static as wind in nearby bushes will not reproduce well), steady your arm, ask your subject to hold as still as possible.
What we need to be a healthy nation are good, steady, moderately well-paid jobs and decent, affordable homes.
"Just as it was important for Gandhi to be told, 'Get off the train, kaffir,' and be thrown off, unfortunately it is important to understand Darwan's stillness and dignity in the context of a pretty well-steady flow of abuse," Kingsley told host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani.
The prediction of this remarkably simple result relies on a steady-state approximation for HO2, as well as steady states for more active radicals during induction.
"Well, the steady marriage is one thing," she says, "but my flirtations, all that stuff, that's something else entirely.
He was in a lot of trouble there, he's done very well to steady the ship.
The company has benefited from improving capital markets activity as well a steady recovery in consumer credit and business lending.
The state is prospering on the back of booms in mining and farming, as well as steady growth in tourism.
There has been, as well, a steady surge of nuisance complaints: bears rummaging through campsites, attacking livestock, raiding bird feeders and beehives, and threatening pets.
