Jefferson Hunter's account of Edwardian fiction employs similar imagery when he argues that 'nostalgic Edwardianism' is invested in this idea of the 'single long country-house weekend from Edward's coronation to his passing and, beyond that, to the guns of August'.

The visions of ubicomp are compelling, and from Weiser's perspective they are very human-centered.

A natural (non-binary) measure of the degree of rationality exhibited by the consumer is the minimum number of data points whose removal induces a rationalisable data-set.

Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.