But it won't set fair when made tight around yards or round thimbles.

The last thing you want is a threshold that is too triggery (one that goes off too many times) or a threshold that won’t go off until the entire building burns to the ground.

Then [her voice] became a little louder, and sounded like a flute or a distant hautbois.

Returning to our own epistemic situation, we do not know the sense in which quantum mechanics and relativity will be taken to be approximately true after their descriptive infelicities are addressed.