For the next couple of minutes, she abrogated her family history.
I genuinely don't think this word is being used properly
My first day on the job was as I expected: business was good. A post-crash malaise had fomented the rural poor’s already healthy distrust of the banking system, and, anyway, many clients were among the longstanding unbanked
This student mother had an ebullient, infectious, even defiant personality that softened the pawnbrokers.
they returned to redeem their collateral eight of ten times, a ludicrous claim I later learned was bruited by scheming brokers regardless of region.
like bandied about?
It’s an equal feat, traversing registers: the droll, meditative equanimity of his fiction, and the ardor, sometimes anger, of his nonfiction.
