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 [[File:Supporters.png|450px|thumb|center|I would be [[inclined]] to be [[supportive]] [[at this stage]]]]
-}}A manner of speaking whereby someone in a position of small authority — is there any other kind? — indicates enough agreement for an initiative {{sex|she}} does not enormously care for to proceed — while leaving a door unlatched through which {{sex|she}} can escape and categorically deny approval later on, when the initiative turns out to be the moronic idea it will almost certainly be.
+}}A manner of speaking whereby someone in a position of small authority — in our diffused times, is there any other kind? — indicates enough agreement for an initiative {{sex|she}} does not enormously care for to proceed — while leaving a door unlatched through which {{sex|she}} can escape and categorically deny approval later on, when the initiative turns out to be the moronic idea it will almost certainly be.
 One can further equivocate by ''[[inclined to|inclination]]''  as in “I would be ''[[inclined]]'' to be [[supportive]], [[at this stage]]”— the implication being that “if gravity were allowed to do its work, one might eventually arrive at a position of agreement, but one is not there yet, and who knows what disturbances in the [[space-time continuum]] might intervene to take one to a darker and more hostile place?”