Might was the measure of right.
Most style is not honest enough.
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
Great fear is concealed under daring.