Indeed, Lemmy always insisted that Motörhead were a straight rock'n'roll band, while all around him critics and fans told him that he played heavy metal.
Pitt begins as the ugliest baby since Henry Spencer's progeny in Eraserhead, and grows younger while all around him age naturally.
The Scotsman remained aloft, alone, and aloof, while, all around, a dynasty hastened to its end.
A solitary US company, Campbell's Soup, has been standing ever taller while all around have fallen.
For years, I remained stolidly baffled while all around, critics simpered and swooned at the words "Tom Hardy".
The prancing horse emblem can be seen on the giant red roof of Ferrari World, straight ahead, while all around are the spectator stands of Yas Marina Circuit.
The Hallé's leader, Lyn Fletcher, played Scheherazade's seductive theme as if her life depended on it, though perhaps the measure of a great orchestral leader is the ability to keep one's head while all around are losing theirs.
In his new book, the Australian scientist Tim Flannery uses Leopold's words to express the agonising sense of being aware of a terrible threat while all around are blithely unconcerned.
Listen to this groove-banger and tell me it's not gloomy as shit, while all around foxy as shit.
Yet the songs on Be Here Now differ in that they are longer than previous releases; an extended coda brings "D'You Know What I Mean?" to almost eight minutes, while "All Around The World" contains three key changes and lasts for a full nine minutes.
Arsenal remains constant, while all around it changes.
