To the charlatans who so desperately strive to perpetuate these pious frauds, such a threatened warm welcome is an essential feature of their gloomy ponerology — hence the puerile solemnity with which it continues to be invoked against all who temerously thumb the nose at their bogus thaumaturgy.

The curious misogyny which chequered Maupassant's gynomania seems to have tried hard to express itself in her portrait.

a graphite-moderated reactor

Please pass that over to me.