The combat fatigues worn by the vehicle personnel did not appear to be standard military issue, more similar to what you would expect mercenaries to wear. Mercenaries, loyal to nothing except themselves and their off-shore bank accounts.

Far from acknowledging the indeterminacy and fluidity of the self, these writers insisted on a bioessentialist conception of identity, presenting their own mediumistic capabilities as the product, not of revelation, piety, or rigorous practice, but rather of evolutionary destiny and inherited capacity.

In the wide plains that lay between the border forests of Russia and Austria, sotnias of Cossacks galloped about, uniformed winds in military order, mounted on the short, nippy horses of their native steppes […].

The threat of the impending axe horrified Scott. He and his supporters hastily “scraped” as many Geocities pages as they could, creating a 641-gigabyte archive that initially circulated on file-sharing networks.