He who is to feel the Pulse, takes the left Hand of the Patient if a Man, the right Hand of a Woman. […] He begins by placing the middle Finger exactly where the Wrist-Bone locks with the Cubitus, then claps the next Fingers, one on each side.

In the early post-Soviet years the Russian elite was divided into liberal westernisers and pragmatic nationalists.

In La Chienne, Simon performs as Legrand, a well-starched civil servant and uppity colleague destined for a fall into the arms of the ruinous Lulu, and thence into bumhood, to the status of one scorned and reviled.

Agreed, if there are as many esses in an individual as there are forms in that individual, then a plurality of substantial forms in an individual implies a plurality of substantial esses in that individual, just as a plurality of accidental forms in an individual implies a plurality of accidental esses in that individual.