[…] when the function of the organ is interfered with either constantly or intermittently to such as extent as to be a source of so much discomfort as to negatize the risk of a major intestinal operation.

Another example of twimindedness is worthy of slightly extended commentary I noticed that the emotion gratified them, gave them some sort of pleasure, the way I saw it. …

He gets paid each Friday afternoon, and then it's straight down the pub to piss it up the wall.

She had been working desultorily on her book for several years.