There's no new news -- everybody thinks war is imminent, ... Bush has made it clear we're going. I don't know why you would grasp for shades of meaning.

[Superstitious Mathilde (Tautou) refuses to believe the news that her fiance, Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), died during the war and sets out to find him in] A Very Long Engagement. ... the story is so complicated ... even we were lost at times.

I was devastated when I heard the news. I just didn't want to believe it. We know he's in a better place.

There's nothing older than yesterday's news. Danica is going to have to win soon to avoid that.

There is clearly a shift in sentiment. The market had already priced in too much bad news.

[During the Gulf War, in early 1991, the news coverage was so laudatory that a former media strategist for President Reagan was ecstatic.] If you were going to hire a public relations firm to do the media relations for an international event, ... it couldn't be done any better than this is being done.