The support provided by custom or by the oenological guide serves only to make it understood that one has not tasted the wine or, having mistasted it, that one perceived nothing or almost nothing.

The political battles raging in states across America are cast as about whether big labor retains its considerable clout. . . . The reality is that the U.S. labor movement has steadily lost influence, politically, socially and economically.

She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in.

The determinate state of the noun is marked in the “Canaanite” languages of the first millennium B.C., in Pre-Islamic North Arabian, in Arabic, in Modern South Arabian languages, and in Tigre by a prefixed definite article. Its earliest attested form is ha-, used in Hebrew, Phoenician, Ammonite, Moabite, Edomite, Liḥyānite, Ṣafaitic, Thamūdic, and in the Modern South Arabian languages where the definite article a- / ä- is prefixed to definite nouns the initial element of which is a voiced or glottalized consonant […]