Tecla was neither a snarler nor a crab, but a good simple lady; yet she was a beata — one of the most temperate species.

There were four of them, old-style petrolheads, with greasy jeans and leather jackets. Each had a rifle trained on the pair. They looked barely out of their teens.

The advantage of dynamic programming as a procedure for solving optimization problems is the simplification obtained by decomposition.

Fascinating though this high-minded re-reading was, certain crucial joints of the play creaked a good deal under the strain.