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To reinvent the wheel of the rose window would be a supererogatory chore.

The unctuous voice, the complacent gesture, made Billy Doud seem asinine.

a woman brimming with affection, a woman so adroitly officious that she gave the impression of belonging to whomever she was addressing

Her face, on-screen, gives off an odd lambent UHF flicker

she was seated near Martin, who was catercorner to her left