His comments to the press were in the same carping vein as in previous speeches.

There is no reasonable way to imagine an area --- be it a large gas cloud, a single superenormous star, or even a galaxy-sized assembly of star --- could "light up” all at once.

Plutarch saith that mens minds do rust and forgrow through idlenes […]

The church bells knelled the peaceful ending of the day, while the purple shades of night descended sadly and majestically on the low chain of neighbouring hills.