Priest: I wasn't being rude. Father: Just bear in mind that there are plenty of other religions you know. Some of them, I may say, offering much greater range and value.

There may even be a report on 'Eve-teasing' (sexual harrassment of women), but nothing on Adam-teasing.

[W]e can also overlook the verbiage of a good deal of the mind-cure literature, some of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trained intellect finds it almost impossible to read it at all.

The Rockwellian palette was what Arkansans would call a gaum of sentiment— sentimentality, the cynical would say. His paintings were what these same cynics would probably call representational, […]