the priests of an idolatrous religion

France never experienced a take off of the sort hypothesized by W. W. Rostow — a sudden spurt of output that begins sustained industrial growth.

Feed the fish to the dolphins.

Calypso is by far the most effective impediment Odysseus encounters on his journey home to Ithaca, holding him in a sensuous but tedious captivity for seven years, Lotusland revisited.