Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.
The sun was shining like a congratulation.
I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.
People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.