He didn't know if the CRS were up to something nasty, making funny sounds with their heavily metallic outfits as they climbed back into their rhinoceros vehicles, or if maybe that black cat was now trailing him with a chompy piece of fish […]

If you go to her and smarm her, it will be all right. If I do what to her? asked Mervyn, wondering what the operation of smarming might be. Of course you don't know, laughed Aggie; it is a school word. You explain what it means, Isabel. To smarm, explained Isabel, signifies to say 'yes ma'am,' or 'yes marm,' to a governess when she is rating you. It is ah expressive word, isn't it? It means 'to conciliate by assent;' that is the best definition that I can give of it. Excellent word, said Mervyn. Then. I am to smarm your mamma, am I, Aggie?[]

Institutional racism relies on the active and pervasive operation of anti-black attitudes

The coordinates of geometry were as incompatible with representation theory as were the splitting fields of representation theory with finite geometry.