21.   His loneliness and isolation probably will grow in direct proportion to reports of revelations about his private life.

22.   I call it TWM, short for Talented Woman Malaise, a mysterious condition of a severity that increases in direct proportion to intelligence.

23.   In some areas of the state that burned in previous years, the mule deer population has fallen in direct proportion to the loss of sagebrush.

24.   In most people, cholesterol production in the liver is reduced in direct proportion to the amount consumed.

25.   In the sport of boxing, where the ability to absorb punishment is in direct proportion to the ability to dish it out, Arturo Gatti is an anomaly.

26.   Its central character is Peter Dragon, a producer who understands that his grand success exists in direct proportion to his ruthlessness.

27.   My infatuation with tobacco almost might have made sense had the cigarette manufacturers been paying me in direct proportion to my standing on the smog alert scale.

28.   On anything longer, the chances of being seated next to a screaming child or a gum-cracker rise in direct proportion to the length of the flight.

29.   Of course, they are made for each other in direct proportion to the antagonism between them when they meet on a plane.

30.   Perhaps the number of hitters with dazzling production totals grows in direct proportion to the number of ill-prepared pitchers who pitch to them.