As fertile and formally expansive as cyberart was for Hershman, it may be that its anonymity, its mere virtuality, was a distraction...

Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is--no stage ruralism, but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects.

A quarter peal of plain bob doubles was rung.

The translator matched every malapropism in the original with one from his own language.