The speculative drawings of architects raise the possibility that all architectural drawings, rather than representing a future building, are confabulist pre-enactments—that is, they tell the story of a world that may be, that could be, that might or even ought to be; but is not, and will never be.

The fore end of the tape is drawn out, and when the indicator points to this number the end is firmly fixed to the front of the camera.

It started raining on their picnic and they had to move the whole shooting match inside.

Rituals can, in fact, be the province of many-roled leaders, but there may be no highly institutionalised system of professional religious functionaries, as such.