Save the gerund and screw the whale.
You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.
Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.