He can continue to be hard on himself until hell freezes over, because he's so self-centeredly pessimistic that there's nothing I can ever do to lighten him up.

In order to have more effective co-ordination of the zones and recommendations which are drawn up and approved by the cerealists of the prairie provinces, the three cereal committees, at the suggestion of the co-ordination committee, have staggered the dates of their meetings […]

Her bouffant suit made her seem much heavier than her petite figure actually was.

In Russian the dentals t, d, s and the velars k, g, x become palatalized to č, ž, š […] . (The inverted hat (haček) represents palatalization.)