We may mark that gentleman with black, at all events, said Leandro Perez. We may indeed, replied the Devil; and you may tar his nearest neighbour with the same brush, while you are about it—an original of an auditor, who, because he keeps a carriage, blushes whenever he is obliged to put his foot into a public vehicle.

There's no way to build to a peak except to get quiet first, and after each breakdown comes another bass drop.

She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.

2022, Greg Lukianoff, The Eternally Radical Idea, Honestly with Bari Weiss at 27m31s: