What about just a context of events, like "A___ is rich and has just fallen off zir horse. B____ is poor and is still mounted on zirs.

The Cianjin district is in the center of Kaohsiung city.…The Cianjin station of the EPA is atop a 12 m-high building at the Taiwan Ocean Research Institute (TORI). The distance between the Cianjin station and the nearest major road is 25 m (see Fig. 1). is automatically monitored hourly (see Fig. 2).

[…] therefore forward I went with my hey-de-gaies to Ilford, where I againe reſted, and was by the people of the towne and countrey there-about very very wel welcomed, being offred carowſes in the great ſpoon, one whole draught being able at that time to haue drawne my little wit drye; […] […] Yet ſhe thumpt it on her way With a ſportly hey de gay: At a mile her daunce ſhe ended, Kindly paide and well commended.

“Monsieur Verdoux” may once again be timely, but the audacity of its statement derives less from Chaplin’s antiwar polemic than from his antiheroic pose.