[…] one of the grayest sadcore bands on God's bleak earth, a band that for encores — however rarely it earned them — would slog through Irish jigs […]

A little gale will soon disperse that cloud.

A Verticil or Whirl may be […] Naked; that is without involucre, bracte or brittle. Bracted - or Involucred

[I]f a person was to talk about an issue one way in her morning coffee klatch and yet another way in response to a telephone interviewer later in the day, which one is her real opinion? Both are real and both have importance.