Louis's brow wore its deepest gloom as he said, There are few in yonder room who would so cavalierly reject my love.

The Middle-East is a geopolitically important region.

… I know how you came to despise all that sickly Wagnerian idiocy and bombast.

Meaney demonstrates that in Australia, too, a prior emphasis on settler rights and constitutional principles gave way to a more racialized conception of Britishness from roughly mid-century.