Indeed, high-sounding speeches and scenes of stormy and tumultuous excitement were not lacking; but with all this, as it seemed to me, there was too little of an earnest and thoughtful exchange of opinions between eminent men, and too much of theatrical attitudinizing and of declamatory phrasemongery.

Lunches usually consist of cold sandwiches consumed al desko.

Press releases we wouldn't dare make up: "Dicks of America, the internationally recognized club for individuals with the birthname of Richard, have . . . declared the month of May 'Be A Dick' month.

An important feature of the original edition of Leaves of Grass was his emphasis on the unaccountable emergence of his poems without forelearning or art.