It is easy to dislike many of the later videos: even as early as the late ’80s, the kind of drama he puts onto screen often looks fakey, and isn’t always rescued by his skill as a performer.

A common technique (variously known as an emergency brake or meat axe budgeting) used by governments is across-the-board cuts;

The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him.

And Abraham circumciſed his ſonne Iſaac, being eight dayes old, as God had commanded him.