Harvest is usually very damp and rainy.

Before Phillips puts on the rubber gloves and leads us through a psychoanalytic interpretation of kindness — complete with morsels like “in order to desire, men debase women; in order to desire, women keep their desires secret (even from themselves)” — the authors bushwack through the history of kindness.

The old man walked with a hunch.

The prodigal son spent his share of his inheritance until he was destitute.