In skillful fugues the heightening tension of contrapuntal development finds confirmation in peaks and underpoints, dissonance quotient, and expansion or compression of tessitura, as well as other less direct sources of stress such as the largely intellectual pleasure of increasingly sophisticated and arcane manipulations.

The government bailout of that corporation is going to cost the taxpayers a hundred billion dollars.

No one else cared for him; but he had an instinct that her great love for him outsummed all he could hope from others.

After the hurricane, before law was restored, looters stole everything that wasn't nailed down.