Some [emotions] are Instigative, and others Arrestive.

She’s not fancy or overcontrolled: she sounds relaxed but alert, and a slight nasal flatness in her voice humanizes her, makes her touch the ground.

But I'd have threw lead at him if I'd been scared enough. I wasn't scared enough.

No one is so beclapped as the author of a popular drama bowing over his own footlights; the artists and romancers of the daily press are modester than they themselves would be willing to admit.