So infectious was Jamie’s trademark bish bash bosh enthusiasm that it may actually have been counterproductive.

The noblemen visited the queen in her court.

it happened actually to be a gray toque of draped velvet, trimmed with antique guipure, and a tall ostrich plume dyed the same shade of violet as her dress. […]

The simple task of cultural deconfusion through cultural self-reorientation is to repudiate the pseudo-negative and truly negative aspects of one's identity.