His inflated belly looked uncomfortable.

The kids know we are both there and committed to them, and they don’t live in a warzone. They seem happy, have friendships, do kid stuff.

I have no horse in this race; I just want to see justice done.

Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his congnisance papaverous volumes, with which only a superhuman endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend?