“How much do I want to bet the young man will be a straightlaced knurd?” Isabel chimed as she thought about the prospective house guest she’ll be waiting on this summer. She used the derogatory term “knurd” she’d learned back in England from Lady Chatterly’s friends who attended the school of Eton. It was “drunk” spelled backward to refer to someone who was more interested in his studies and grades than partying and enjoying alcohol after classes.

It was as though they [the gulls] waited upon some signal; as though some decision had yet to be given.

The failure of dispositional analyses of belief as analyses of the 'ordinary' concept can explain our hesitancy to accept incorrigibility (if I believe that I believe that p, then I believe that p) or transparency (if I believe that p, then I know that I believe that p), the traits rerejected by dissonance theorists.

He had the girl's head on his shoulder but she was half cut and in her seventh heaven, so he just went on talking to me, proud of his English, you see.