There are various ways of dealing with the fact that you are suddenly surrounded by creature who can see and would like to eat you, but one way, a molluscan specialty, is to grow a hard shell and live within or beneath it.

I was vegetizing in front of the TV after a tough week.

When he is hugging grandmothers or quizzing college students or consoling anguished overbidders on the set of “The Price Is Right,” it is hard to imagine that anything as crass as ambition is what motivates Bob Barker.

On the other hand, positive philosophy is empirical aprioricity, or it is the empiricism of the a priori, to the extent that it proves itself the prius per posterius as God.