In I walked to the store, the verb 'walk' is intradirective, as the person undergoing the action is myself; in I walked the dog I no longer undergo the action, and the verb is transitive.

[I]t seems a pity that they should not form a volume in one of the neat series of Jane Austen's novels now published, as to a real Austenite they contain much that is valuable, and are full of characteristic touches.

Whereas once the main option was a traditional black hearse service, these days a green funeral with a cardboard coffin is just one of the alternative ways to send off a loved one.

If nothing he [Patrice Chéreau] did for the screen had the genre-shaking impact of his stage work — his 1976 “Ring” cycle at Bayreuth helped usher in an era of Regietheater, or director’s theater — he did raise eyebrows with the sexually explicit “Intimacy” (2001), starring all of Mark Rylance, the corseted Olivia in the “Twelfth Night” that just ended its Broadway run.