The doctrines of the Reformation have , for near two centuries , kept the field against all encounterers

The Dean then ran up the great stairs, down one pair of back-stairs, up another, in so violent a manner, that Mrs Pilkington could not help expressing her uneasiness to Mrs Brent, lest he should fall, and be hurted.

I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism.

The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education […]