Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

The prison is the state writ small.

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.