Parenthood, untouchably sacrosanct in so much of our culture, is on “24” a grotesquely compromised institution.

Thornthwaite [Cumb.] per pale, ar. and gu. a chev. betw. three lions' heads, erased, all counterchanged ; on a chief or, a thorn-tree ppr. —Crest, a lion's head, erased, gu. in the mouth a thorn-sprig vert, fructed ppr.

[…]apoastra (i) and the circle of the periastra (2).

… and it had been Sebastian's fault that her husband was no longer living undeadly by her side.