1.   Bits of conversation seem important.

2.   However, a bit of ferocity seems to be back in Fernando.

3.   Sequences and themes emerge usually because a scene-hogging character thinks a given bit just seems like a good idea.

4.   That extra bit of initiative seems to help.

5.   There is not much flat soil, but every bit of it seems devoted to oleanders in big bushes of red, pink and an unusual salmon tint.

6.   This bit of largess seemed excessive to at least one LSU student who expressed himself in a letter to the campus paper, The Reveille.