[…] if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncings, your humming and hawing, your oh-ing and ah-ing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief.

I waited with occasional glances at my watch until the zero hour should arrive.

a pliant thread  pliant wax

Effect 6: Gouraud spacecut - Probably the worst effect in the demo - has been done miles better before!