The ultrasound showed an ellipsoidal hypoechogenic area in the muscle […]

Object-oriented C++ code is easier to understand for a human than C code.

Halfway there we turned off the highway onto possibly the shittiest gravel road I have ever driven. In Canada, we would call it washboard; in Australia they call it corrugated, but you get the point.

Uncle Miles wished only to dodge the issue that had hurled them apart, offering an effusive and blustery hospitality as an alternative to the air-clearing discussion which the situation so urgently called for.