Lunch for the busy has become a quick scoff of processed, terrifyingly orange couscous, […]

He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.

No pupil who will syllabize and pronounce carefully will misspell such words as accommodate and professor.

They froze on their knees, their faces turned upward with a ghastly blue hue in the sudden glare of a weird light that burst blindingly up near the lofty roof and then burned with a throbbing glow.