Sex in those days was regarded not so much as a playful sport, horizontal jogging it might be, as an unspeakable obsession needing pseudo-new assistance, the sin that dare not speak its name except in obscure, allusive, Latinate verbiage.

The two three-car Chesham sets were re-converted for steam operation, with vacuum-controlled push-and-pull gear in 1940 or 1941, when the last of the old seven-car electric trains began to be withdrawn.

[…] false reasoning themselves, namely, by making false syllogisms; whereby they misconclude about their spiritual and eternal estate and condition, and befool themselves.

Yesterday, Frears told the Guardian that he was surprised and honoured: Stone me! as Jim Broadbent said when he got his Oscar.".