It is a function of social class and occupation as to why a man's capacity to stand and deliver, as it were, is reduced as youthful Romeos are dragged by Time's relentless claws of age into the abyss of the yawning grave.

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The stunning banality of the libretto, by Mr. Wainwright and Bernadette Colomine, reaches its apex here, with lines like "Your beauty intoxicates me, " while Tim Albery's directing of this opera-within-an-opera references old-fashioned stand-and-deliver style at its most wooden.

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"We believe in fairness, we stand for fairness and we will deliver fairness - yes, at Westminster and at Holyrood too, " he said.

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You have to fight for that finish line, you have to fight to get things done, and you have to let nothing stand in your way to deliver on budget, on time and to client satisfaction.

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