Is it the braggart and the bristler, the man who has nothing to learn, who would build a wall between America and other lands, or would array America against the world;

Tanks are not street-legal because their treads chew up the pavement.

The suspect impetus behind Stephen's recurrent desire for confession becomes clearest when it expresses itself as an urge to write pornological letters, intended not for a forgiving priest, of course, but for an innocent and unsuspecting girl

He frequently set his stories in a pretechnological past and was easily enthralled by the authority of ancient texts.