[…] and they are obdurately determined to find, or to invent, some nanoaggression that will make it easy for them to stage a bout of moral or social outrage, which, in turn, will help them maintain their status as valiant social justice warriors.

They used rock'n'roll as a weapon against itself. With all instruments but guitar, bass, drums, and voice written off as effete, as elitist accoutrements of a professionalist cult of technique, it was music best suited to anger and frustration, […]

From their quizzical looks she surmised she was way off-beam.

The Sheffield whittle was the common knife of the country , which every one carried for general purposes , who was not entitled by rank to wear a sword