He dressed in a mannered fashion with turned-back cuffs and double slits to his coat, bow-ties and fancy waistcoats. He made a good-living, wine-and-food-society impression in which only the slow, rather cunning blue eyes struck a false note.

A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.

After the hurricane, the building was structurally sound but aesthetically displeasing.

Bridge writing tends to concentrate on the end game.