Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.

In this connexion we may think of the importance of the Lombards, the Leonardeschi, and the Venetians for contemporary northern painting.

All of them could be called candidate lit, a publishing minigenre that includes runaway best sellers (“The Audacity of Hope” by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois) and unqualified duds (“Between Worlds,” a memoir by Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico).

they resemble themselves to the swans