What is irresponsible, however, is for a candidate's supporters to ignore such campaign realities, to demand that their candidate constantly reassure them that they will not be let down.
Dom Casey was, as O'Malley constantly reassured us, free to talk to anyone connected with the club, who was, in turn, free to express their opinion in any way they liked.
Even in such a small thing as winning at cards it must be important to him to be constantly reassuring himself, constantly searching out omens of good fortune and success, even to the point of creating these omens for himself.
He had to constantly reassure her that that was not why he went out at night.
That mix-up caused us serious problems for the rest of the campaign because we had to be constantly reassuring the media that we would get them good positions.
Mr. Bolet's sense of reason and reliability constantly reassured his listeners that order would prevail in these difficult pieces.
As he recounts his courtship and marriage to Yvette in flashback, he constantly reassures the audience that he had "no indication we'd be anything but an ideal couple" and rhetorically asks, "How could anyone have known I was being deliberately misled?"
It is a commentary on the edginess that people feel in these days of restructuring and downsizing that even the president of a company with Hoover's track record must constantly reassure his work force.
"Hidden Laughter" is the kind of schematically constructed play in which characters constantly reassure one another that "everything will be all right" right up to the moment when someone histrionically asks, "So why is everything going wrong?"
Amanda began questioning her ability as a mother after Janet convinced her she is just like her mother, even though Jake constantly reassured her.