Katherine [Lester (a character in Lady Macbeth)] is no innocent. Her taste for evil is in her DNA, and her twists of the screw (literally and figuratively) tighten her resolve to control her destiny, no matter the consequence. In short order, we witness homicide, infanticide and even equicide.

In response to a hypothetical question, the psychiatrist stated that quite probably Miss Lynch's abnormal brainwave pattern and behavioral difficulties were caused by the head injury she received in the powderpuff football game.

The Ordos region in the narrower sense is nomadic by history, in contrast to the agricultural and densely populated southeastern loess part that stretches up to the Wei River valley.

Better far for such victims had they, instead of aspiring to the vanities of a classical education, sat, like Keats, unlearnedly at the feet of quaint Chapman, or Dryden, or even of Mr. Pope.