Everyone applauded and sauntered up to the buffet of spaghetti, meatballs, Italian bread, salad and gelato, pizzells, biscotti and cannolli for dessert.

[…] the narcissistic leader does not use his narcissistic charisma only as a means for political success; he needs success and applause for the sake of his own mental equilibrium. The idea of his greatness and infallibility is essentially based on his narcissistic grandiosity, not on his real achievements as a human being.

When I first saw him, he was being chewed out by some jiboney. I thought the guy was his boss.

If there's one phrase that deters people from taking the train, it is: A rail replacement service will operate on this route.