It was big—and Babbitt respected bigness in anything; in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth, or words.

There are three types of such spaces: the space of positive definite (or negative definite) Hermitian matrices, the space of nondefinite Hermitian matrices, and finally the space of degenerate Hermitian matrices p, satisfying the condition p ≥ 0 (or p ≤ 0).

Watt was not a woman's man, but the fishwoman pleased him greatly.

a badgerlike smile