(You might think this was in an essay on the perils of overparenting; it’s actually one in which she realizes that she can’t foist her own childhood anxieties onto her own socially adroit children.)

He put the pen inside his breast pocket.

(A.2.5) THEOREM If A is a totally ordered ring and if I is a proper order ideal, then A/I is a totally ordered ring (with the operations and order given above).

But the ultimate fix came from the grand vizier of New Orleans voodoo-funk, Dr John, whose mesmerising performance was as close as you'll come to witnessing a shaman summoning spirits.