The latest list of detainees would be pended and they would be allowed to return to their homes on a temporary basis.

He was dressed simply in plain black clothes.

Nothing to say, the oilcloth moans under the swack of Mother's sponge.

[I]ts main character, Henry (Mr. [Ewan] McGregor), is a successful, intellectual dramatist who seems quite capable of churning out fizzy, challenging works about brilliant but ambivalent revolutionaries, philosophers, etc. […] But this cleverer-than-thou creature gets his comeuppance in The Real Thing, showing that a very human heart – just like those possessed by the less sesquipedalian – beats beneath his fancy words.