of course

This generation of milers is also supremely talented, of course, forming a new golden age of middle-distance running.

I refer, of course, to the boorish crowd at the Ryder Cup—and the extended aftermath of the antisocial behavior witnessed at Bethpage Black last weekend.

This isn’t your grandmother’s china—unless, of course, your grandmother was the queen of France.

Failures—and worse—must, of course, be part of history.

Sen. Joseph McCarthy cited them, praising “one of our outstanding historical figures” for warning that the destruction of democracy would come from “enemies from within”—by which, of course, he meant communists.