Before a Kohen duchans he's gotta have his hands washed by one of the Levites, it's a whole magilla, what do I know?

His passion cast a mist before his sense.

Unfortunately, by waiting as long as possible each time before jumping, he lost concentration and then, because of overstriding over the first part of the approach run, he made three no-jumps.

Euclid's parallel postulate may not have seemed so important when you studied geometry in high school, since it is used only once in order to derive the basic result 1 on alternate interior angles, which is then constantly used to derive further results.