Longevity is his revenge: his instrument for shoehorning himself into history.

(A more grandiose musical version of another girl's-growing-pains classic, "Jane Eyre," suffered from similar shoehorning.)

Payment by results appears to be more concerned with shoehorning people into predetermined "clusters", which can then literally and explicitly become a "currency" for mental health trusts or other, private, service providers.

The reason for my shoehorning into the so called 'denialist' camp is merely because I pride myself (rightly or wrongly) on being critical of govermental and intergovernmental predictions which are just that, guesses.

But for every Spike Jonze there's a dozen filmmakers who woo guys like me by shoehorning a dozen non-sequiturs into a mundane storyline and then showcasing them all in the commercials.

Steve Roberts medals in singles competition for shoehorning his opinion that presidential diplomacy is "indispensable" in the New World Order into both Washington Week in Review and Late Edition .

The Galleria has been plagued with problems from the beginning, when neighbors rose up in protest against the proposed shoehorning of a $500 million complex of six towers onto a 14-acre site near a stable middle-class neighborhood.

Kenneth Klein led his New York Virtuosi Chamber Symphony in a celebration of black composers at the Kaye Playhouse, but he seemed intent on shoehorning two very different programs into a single evening.

It does this by shoehorning in a strong, alternative Palestinian point of view in the person of Suha (Lubna Azabal), an attractive young woman Said meets in the auto-repair depot where he and Khaled work.

"There's a lot of shoehorning of music into projects, with little motivation other than that the music and the movie are from the same company," said Steve Gottlieb, the president of TVT Records, an independent label that produced soundtracks for "Big Night" and "Scream."

Mr. McLaughlin's overheated verbal virtuosity - best seen in his adroit shoehorning of more words, opinions and topics than seems possible in a half-hour - spawned CNN's "Crossfire," with an ex-Group member, Michael Kinsley, and "The Capital Gang," featuring another former Grouper, Robert Novak.

With the help of God and a shoehorn it all went in.

And the record store itself is going the way of the shoehorn.

"With everything we already have, you'll need a shoehorn to put it in," she said.

He opened his bag - the item was a long shoehorn.

Do you know that some mornings he has to get his hat on with a shoehorn.

The couple and the shoehorn were given a pass.

In this key passage, the shoehorn becomes an instrument of God.

Viewers might feel in need of a shoehorn to fit other pieces into the theme.

You'll have to dig me out with a shoehorn.' "

One of life's little luxuries is a shoehorn that does not have a hotel's name on it.

"I'll beat him so bad, he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on."

The friend picked up the shoehorn, put it to his mouth and began blowing through the hole at the end.

A shoehorn would have come in handy in moving some of the cars.

It increasingly seems to be acting as the shoehorn of globalisation.

Perhaps it could be done with a shoehorn.

It's like asking, "Which is better: a mango or a shoehorn?"

In 1976, he bought a shoehorn company consisting of one plastic-molding machine.

An assistant raced over with what looked like an ivory-colored plastic shoehorn.

She took the prints on thin card stock held in a device shaped like a shoehorn.

You couldn't fit even a helicopter into this jungle with a shoehorn."

Buck Perry said they looked like "a shoehorn that's been tromped on by a horse."

The works are essentially installed in one large space, and many of them seem to have been squeezed in with a shoehorn.

"By that I mean as many as you can cram on board with a shoehorn.

After a bit of scratching about, Bruce found a shoehorn shaped object in a small compartment behind the bowl.

Use devices such as a sock aid and a long-handled shoehorn for additional assistance.

They'll stop at nothing to shoehorn their way into America.

New ones are being shoehorned in on almost every block.

Often they shoehorn a week's worth of activity into one day.

I suppose she'd gone and shoehorned him into this thing.

It was tough enough to shoehorn in my 5- and 9-year-old children.

Groups of more than 500 people have to be shoehorned in."

When the fires die out, we'll shoehorn the rest in.

Still, all of these new small cars will have to be shoehorned into a shrinking market.

Another problem is shoehorning a poetic language into the modern age.

Maybe this is why they're increasingly trying to shoehorn social features in.

Do they have to be shoehorned into every facet of our lives?

Those who would shoehorn towers everywhere can take care of themselves, thank you.

Our final destination was a huge house shoehorned onto a small lot.

It would have been hard to shoehorn four more varied styles into a single program.

"I've developed a reputation for being able to shoehorn everything into small spaces."

Joe's school is shoehorned into a building already accommodating three other schools.

No one can shoehorn God into a single box.

Since then, the 330 high school students have been shoehorned into 18 aluminum trailers.

The two mechanics do feel slightly shoehorned together, but the result is still fresh and fun to play.

"I feel as if we're being shoehorned into this year's premise," he says.

They also do not attempt to shoehorn a crappy story into their games.

"It's seriously shoehorned into the middle of a gigantic city.

We wish them economic health, but to try and shoehorn a project of this size in there, it's not right."

Supermarkets are also less willing to shoehorn themselves into tiny spaces.

Part of the high cost was because we had to shoehorn the suite into a difficult-shaped space.