Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.
Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.
The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.