fogged in

When Covid-19 swept across the globe, Putin went into an isolation unusual even for personalistic autocrats, with anyone going to meet him being isolated for a fortnight under guard and then having to pass through a corridor bathed in germ-killing ultraviolet light and fogged in disinfectant.

I’ve not usually been a fan of the avant-garde, which too often strikes me as intellectualized and chilly, fogged in a machismo musk.

It might be good to try, because after seven albums fogged in hype and tsk-tsk, the parsing of her celebrity has done very little to give us a clearer picture of her work.

“We have more than 100 clients, and if I have five that file on time this year, it’ll be a miracle,” said Meghan Blair-Valero, the founder of Fogged In Bookkeeping, which specializes in small business accounting.

But every time Stevens has edged too close to the precipice of mainstream success, he has reacted by releasing something challenging or fogged in darkness.