The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character.

He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.

He's very clumsy. I wouldn't trust him with carrying the dishes.

[…] The Great Society was given a blank check. It bounced. While some of the poor advanced over the last twenty-five years, most who did so succeeded the old-fashioned way—by their own efforts. Most inner-city poor are worse off today than they were before President Johnson launched the Great Society.