In adding up her assets, the ambitious lady calculated the worth of her beautiful body as coldly as everything else.
Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.
Enough is ever-receding.
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.
Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.