I tried to concentrate on the matter in hand, but spurious thoughts kept intruding.

I must make this deadline or my boss will kill me!

In September 2007, Jimbo Wales, Wikipedia's panjandrum — himself an inclusionist who believes that if people want an article about every Pokemon character, then hey, let it happen — posted a one-sentence stub about Mzoli's […]

I could not discover the lenity and favour of this sentence.