It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not?
George OrwellBad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
George Orwell