Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.

A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.

I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.

I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating.

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.