The angular defect clearly has something to do with curvature, because the larger it is, the more pointed the surface is at the vertex.

'They warned me off you and Lawrence because they reckoned you were a couple of chutney ferrets after my arse. […]

I was simply making the prosaic point that we are running late.

Do ideals, symbols and beliefs lead people to act as they do? Or are the wellsprings of action and the drivers of history less ethereal: money, fear, the thirst for power, circumstance and opportunity, with culture as an afterthought? Scholars in the first camp are culturalists; in the second, materialists.