The silver-bullet cancer cures of yesterday’s newsmagazine covers, like interferon and angiogenesis inhibitors, disappointed the breathless expectations, as have elixirs such as antioxidants, Vioxx, and hormone replacement therapy.

Artifice and imitation reveal the finikin or uncertain soul as surely as deliberate bareness reveals a conscious austerity.

He is too well grounded for all your philoſophical Cant to hurt.

Yeah, there's, like, a buttload of gangs at this school.