You're very right, he said, with owlish smugness, adjusting a waistcoat button that had come loose, and smoothing his cuffs.

A man has always been a woman’s best excuse to avoid her destiny; that a man is her destiny is one of patriarchy’s most pernicious tenets. What a scam.

Elwood seems at first a typical army scrounger and lurkman with his latest model Mercedes and every creature comfort but he is a ruthless and greedy drug pedlar.

When a ground state molecule absorbs a photon, the values of the electron spins are not altered and thus the primary excited state is the singlet state.