The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.
Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.
Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.
Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.