Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had come into his head spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency.

Given the present crisis and empty coffers, working meetings geared toward results are more appropriate for politicians than a program of touristy forays, throngs waving flaglets and bulletproof glass, the whole culminating in a neo-feudal state banquet.

My car was running fine and then, for no reason, it stalled out.

Under this new stimulus, Burns’s previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism.