No doubting he's made an impression, but not even seasoned commentators are saying what begs to be said: one swallow doesn't make a summer.
Our readers informed us of the mistake, and we corrected it, and while correcting it realized that we didn't know what "begging the question" means.
Now that you, my dear readers, understand what "begging the question" is (and trust me, you're way ahead of 95percentt of people), you can hand out these cards every time someone misuses it.
Make it quick is what I beg.
"If that's what people beg us for, we'll do it.
"Everything was different — that's what garbage smells like, that's what illness smells like, that's what children begging look like".
"What one begs the American people to do, for all our sakes, is simply to accept our history," Baldwin said.
"Headhunters" is admirably swift in style, and dangerously silly in what it begs us to swallow, but at its heart is a consummate depiction of a permanent type — the proud and prickly male, thrown back on his desperate wits.
I ask myself the questions that should be asked; "What story begs to be told?
