For all his expensive education, he didn't seem very bright.

That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.

She'd never angsted so much about her head as she had in the past twenty-four hours. Why the hell hadn't she just left it alone?

these developments in Gaza are a consequence of the state of siege that the tiny territory has been under – a society that has been fenced-in, starved, and seen its very fabric torn apart by unemployment and wanton military destruction.