The sight of that watery-eyed old Jones mopping his bald head with a red cotton handkerchief, the sorrowing yelp of the dog, the squalor of that fly-blown cuddy which was the only shrine of his memory, threw a veil of inexpressibly mean pathos over Brierly’s remembered figure, the posthumous revenge of fate for that belief in his own splendour which had almost cheated his life of its legitimate terrors.

I entitled the piece Dorky, dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.

At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious.

Suppose a group of researchers wants to find psychological and behavioral similarities and differences between arranged marriages and nonarranged (love-based) marriages in the United States in a sample of families of Indian descent (Regan et al., 2012).