mislaying

Her soaring film career has by now supplied Brown with such an array of other fictional gifts and odd abilities that mislaying her telekinetic powers doesn’t seem quite so bad.

What counts is the manner of slaughter, and—this being the most courteous of films—the vital importance of never mislaying one’s cool.

“I hope you will forgive me disturbing you," she said, “but I was not sure whether you meant to throw these drawings away. All the waste-paper baskets are always brought to me to check, at the end of the day, in case of mislaying anything of value. Robert told me this was thrown into the library basket."

Maybe it was down to a post-euphoria sag, fatigue or just trying to do too much but Maguire, while still very good very often, committed uncharacteristic mistakes last season, mislaying passes, such as the one to Sergio Agüero at the Etihad minutes after a sensational 60-yard romp forward, or making rash decisions such as the one that got him sent off after four minutes at Burnley.

He has matured from the young man who once kicked a ballboy in frustration, or lost his place having returned late from Belgium after mislaying his passport.