Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell.

This was not the cagey, cautious approach which had been widely anticipated. Rather, it was a signal that McCoist had reached a fairly significant conclusion – that his only hope of getting through this storm unscathed was to get his fragile team back on the front foot.

You can do better yet: but this is meetly.

Many who sought escape from an overly-regulated, mechanized and flaccifying homefront environment, discovered a military life that carried far more potential for repression than any previous civilian job; a conflict where elan paled in importance to battlefield technology; clashes during which the exalted male physique was often literally ripped to shreds; and artillery duels that frequently prompted the most muscilar into releasing so-called weak emotions bottled up since childhood.