The crowd guffawed loudly and the Rugger Blue laughed vinously.

No painter qualifies more than Hogarth as a painter of 'social criticism', but none, at the same time, was more level-handed in his use of that criterion. . If the rich were called to order, the poor were certainly not sentimentalised.

We eased the boom vang, then lowered the sail.

...unaffected harmonies over fairly conventional shoegazey rock, though usually to exceptionally beautiful effect.