For example, the creation of historical preservation districts or the passage of antiweed ordinances can be used to preserve a desired rural character.

Mark was a tattooed, hairy, nuggety, foul-mouthed Aussie bloke (you're probably thinking, as opposed to all those gentle, feminine men who work at the sewage treatment plant).

Truth never reveals itself either to the enthusiast smitten with his own reveries; to the fellifluous fanatic enslaved by his prejudices; to the vain glorious mortal puffed up with his own presumptuous ignorance […]

We don't know if he was altered on alcohol or drugs or anything […]