Barnes says there is some natural variation across the population, but that many of us tend to be larks as children, veer toward owls as adolescents, and as we get older, sway back to larkhood.
You may not mean to neg a woman, but a compliment might veer into that territory.
More worrying still, as our modern transport, industry and infrastructure networks become more reliant on GPS, there is a growing risk that these could break down completely if those satellites veer off course.
It takes the equivalent of only a two-second lapse for a driver to veer into oncoming traffic.
In his fight to win his party's nomination, the 61-year-old candidate is putting forward a platform of policies that veer even further to the far right than in 2012, when he set out to win over voters from Marine Le Pen's Front National.
I tended to veer slightly away from the edge of the roadway and the drop-off beyond.
People with a right ring finger that's much longer than the index of the same hand are more likely to veer toward the dissolute, judging from an Oxford University study published today in the journal Biology Letters.
People with a right ring finger that's much longer than the index of the same hand are more likely to veer toward the dissolute, judging from an Oxford University study published today in the journal Biology Letters.
From the reality of Thomson preparing for his show to the illusion of himself flying over the Manhattan city as Birdman, the genius cinematographer allows the film to veer without a break.