His taking the bar exam for a third time was pure futility.

In fact, I've, uh... well, there's this forum for demisexual and other ace/arospec people, and I've been a member for a while.

In the field of epitaphology, Dr. Johnson opens his essay on the subject by adhering to the familiar topos of claiming new territory for critical exploration:[…]

There is no trick of the trade which he does not know, no artifice which he does not which he does not habitually practise.