In the diner on Christmas Eve he sat with only the cook and a trio of hardluck regulars.

A judgment which follows immediately from another is sometimes called a corollary, or consectary […] One which illustrates the science where it appears, but is not an integral part of it, is a scholion.

a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humour

The Non-Fundamentalist Maximalists extrapolated from every single archaeological discovery an argument in favor of the authenticity of larger and larger parts of the Bible and used some of the critical Bible study information.