Begging off their insistence that I should accompany them for a night of revelrous gal-palling, at around 9:30 p.m.
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Then Mr. Gardner jumped in, begging off any discussion of whether he could be the elusive fourth vote who could upend hopes of a quick acquittal of Mr. Trump.
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With other candidates begging off, one possible replacement might be Kevin Kellems, a former aide to Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich and Senator Dan Coats who worked for the Trump campaign last year for two weeks before departing.
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The first lady canceled at the last minute her trip to Davos, Switzerland, citing "scheduling and logistical issues," begging off accompanying the President on the journey, instead making a stealth overnight trip to Mar-a-Lago for an as-yet-publicly-unexplained reason.
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Begging off, I went across the street to a coffee shop with Wi-Fi so I could send the audio I had captured to our studio to be produced and ready to air the next morning as part of our coverage of the vigil.
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Huge overcompensation, I'm humorless, and you know, have one plate and one towel and, you know, and -- and fasting on Sundays, and you know, friends start noticing that I'm -- I'm begging off (ph) going out, you know, at night because I have to, you know, read, you know, Sartre (ph) or something.
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The bear stalks his pet dog outside, the dog begging off ... until both walk past Porky's window and see that he and his dog have sat down to dinner. The bear and his pet knock on the door and ask to join Porky for dinner, but the pig slams the door on them, saying, "You've buttered your bed, now sleep in it!" Just as he heads back to the table, he sees the "love thy neighbor" sign at the door, and he feels obligated to invite his lazy neighbors in. The bear quickly feasts at the table.
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Next, Hume tries to confirm and extend his account, noting that hope and fear can arise from "all kinds of uncertainty": thus fear can be produced by the mere thought of a possible evil if it is great enough, the immediate presence of a potential evil known to be impossible, the certainty of an evil too horrible to think about or whose precise nature is unknown, or anything extremely surprising. Even utterly irrelevant circumstances, or something expected to be pleasant, can call up fear if shrouded in uncertainty. Hume closes the section by begging off any discussion of subtle "variations" of hope and fear, or of the role of the will and the direct passions in animals. Book 2 finishes with a brief section on curiosity—"the love of truth", which leads us to take pleasure in intellectual pursuits and achievements.
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