He approached the moral dilemma casuistically, not abstractly from first principles.

To the long list of everyday afflictions that includes dry, itchy skin and restless leg syndrome, add another: speech disfluency.

Kafir makes better forage than the duras.

Half-sheepishly, the mechanic had eased round to nudge his mate to look also at the comical-looking bloke. And the bloke caught them both. They wiped the grin off their faces. Because the little bloke looked at them quite straight, so observant, and so indifferent.