… I've come to rely on a mental technique that I call powering through. … It's equivalent to brazening out an awkward social situation—accidentally squeezing the butt of a stranger wearing the same costume as your boyfriend at a Halloween party, say. Powering through or brazening out is almost always what I end up doing, but only after stifling my initial impulse to surrender or sink through the floor.

Adorned in white, a reverend priest appears, / And offerings to the flaming altars bears— ; / A porket, and a lamb that never suffered shears.

Organic sales, which exclude the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange, are now expected to rise 2 per cent to 5 per cent[…].

Biologists study living things.