… laser beam is a Brewster window for reducing backshine of the laser beam into the detectors placed behind the observation windows.

And how there was clearly no escape, no escape compatible with that clean-handed truth from which it was not possible for him to swerve.

Did I interrupt some bow-chicka-bow-wow?

[W]e never know the full force of parental affection till our children are about to be taken from us. It is then that we discover how strongly they have entwined themselves round our hearts; when we behold the fixed eye, the pale lips, the convulsive throws of death distorting the countenance; or when with aching and throbbing hearts we deposit those who are a part of ourselves in the cold and silent grave.