They feel better about themselves for a little while because they realise that they are not quite so bad after all.
Only after they had refined two years' research into a marketable product – James now tosses out phrases like "close-noded thick-wall tubes" while talking about bamboo – did they realise they were on the wrong track.
My parents didn't see it at first, but I kept showing them videos, and after a while they began to realise this is something special.
"It takes the middle class a while to realise they're being shoved off of the precipice," Thomas Adcock, a writer and novelist tells me.
One admitted, "It took me a while to realise they weren't original poems quoted by Byatt (and I've read a fair amount of Victorian poetry - does that mean I have a cloth ear?).
The cast, led by Mlada Khudoley in the high dramatic soprano role of Empress, navigated the wall of orchestral sound with almost unstinting energy, even if it took a while to realise they were singing in German not Russian.
Similarly, they did not want to take away patients' hope by discussing death and dying while giving chemotherapy, but they realised that delaying such discussions reduced their patients' time to accept death and to say farewell.
Reporters who come here from some other papers take a while to realise that they really are allowed to write what they want.
The entrepreneur has a series of interactions with someone and after a while both sides realise they're getting value from the conversations and – de facto – the person has become a mentor".
