And why do the police think Rust can help them with their current investigations when nowadays he can barely string a sentence without the steadying aid of six cans of beer?
It may be hard to believe that it was so, when nowadays we mostly ingest our drugs from prescription bottles, early in the morning or late at night — but it existed, and was as alluring as it was utterly toxic.
"It makes no sense to imprison a peasant who grows marijuana, when nowadays, for example, its cultivation and use are legal in eight states of the United States," he said.
The sheer ordinariness of her wardrobe – when, nowadays, female detectives such as Stella Gibson in The Fall must appear as though fresh from a Whistles sample sale, or like Sarah Lund, as famous for her jumpers as for her ace detective work – is exactly what makes DCI Tennison's such an unforgettable look.
The disintegrating process continues still, in a different sense, for when, nowadays, I attempt to follow in memory the winding paths from one given point to another, I notice — alas! — that there are many gaps, owing to oblivion or ignorance, akin to the terra-incognita blanks the old mapmakers used to call "sleeping beauties".
Even a word as central to the current debate as "austerity" comes with its own bias: originally from the Old French austerite meaning "harshness or cruelty", it carries in Britain also a positive meaning, being associated with the self-restraint at the expense of the public good which was required by the wartime economy, when nowadays it is used to justify policies that effect the exact opposite.
When philosophers nowadays discuss the issue of universals they normally think of properties as entities that account for the similarity and causal powers of things.
I laugh when people nowadays talk about recycling as if it's something new.
Thus, when neuroscientists nowadays refer to epigenetics, they discuss processes that involve histone-modifications, DNA-methylation as well as the more recently discovered DNA-hydroxymethylation and often also the action of non-coding RNAs (Fig 1).
"Nowadays, when you finish third, everyone is thrilled to bits.
Nowadays, when my phone rings, my wrist buzzes.
