They looked up the word "anodyne" to confirm that it originally meant free from or alleviating pain. Only later did i come to mean insubstantial, uninteresting, or unimportant.
we were able to stop side by side at a red light under one of several sets of elevated tracks whose dappled shadows obscured what took place below.
Recently he had published a highly regarded work — maybe that was the one Guido had liked so much — on the economic crisis and on the karstic movement of capital that was being shifted from sources to be investigated toward construction, finance, private television
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I hissed and in such a peremptory tone, so clearly close to shouting, so determined to attack and to fight with all my energy, that he got up, slowly, and said with disgust
Stefano now tried to amuse her, but being amusing had never been his strong point, sentimental tones suited him better, or the sententious phrases of the mature man who knows what he wants
