The powerful and the fortunate are very fond of the maxim, where there's a will there's a way; and they rarely use it without expressing in very clear terms a cold, insolent, and uncharitable judgment upon exertions they are themselves not called upon to make, while they modestly declare that such exertions, if by them made, would be triumphant. They say, in sort, to the weak and unprosperous—You might succeed if you would, for effort is success, and we should find a certain and easy conquest where you have met but baffled hopes and continual defeat!

We eyefuck the area; a glimmer of chrome flashes from an officer's jeep.

Finally, the greater the proportion of nondemocracies among crisis actors, the more likely it becomes that escalation will occur.

Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow.