In the production of a statue of Athena for the Parthenon, the bronze is the material cause; the shape and design of the statue is the formal cause; the sculptor is the efficient cause; the honor of the goddess (and the glory of Athens) is the final cause.

She had to be put to bed with an elephant dose of tranquilizers.

One of Ford's best effects in unchronological narration comes from having Dowell tell the same story twice in order 'to render those superimposed emotions'.

to have a flair for art