Saying one is "moving on" from a collaborator may be meant to be a dig, or may be innocuous. What such a phrase *doesn't* even slightly suggest is that someone "around" Brian is instilling that sentiment.
Maybe people around him do instill sentiments or attitudes. But nothing specifically regarding saying "I'm moving on" from a collaborator has one iota of a suggestion about where such a sentiment originated, anymore than anything else Brian ever says.
Maybe people around him do instill sentiments or attitudes. But nothing specifically regarding saying "I'm moving on" from a collaborator has one iota of a suggestion about where such a sentiment originated, anymore than anything else Brian ever says.
Exactly.