A distinguished retired paediatrician telephoned me, concerned about his grandfetus which had been found through antenatal scanning to be one umbilical artery short.

Sonja (Diane Keaton): That is incredibly jejune. / Boris (Woody Allen): That's jejune? You have the temerity to say that I'm talking to you out of jejunosity? I am one of the most june people in all of the Russias!"

In an earlier day, a snow that fell in April was called a “robin snow.” It was said to draw the last frost from the ground and bring the earthworms to the surface. This white incursion is gratefully brief.

She scribbled a curve on the paper.