"She COMPENSATES with mascara and turquoise eye shadow, so that her eyes look a bit like two peacock feathers."

"Not surprisingly, more than two hours a day of screen time is CORRELATING with lower scores on thinking and language tests."

"He seemed DISINCLINED to talk with me, and I was glad not to talk with him."

"Meanwhile, almost everybody lived in fear of that EMINENT philanthropist Bill Gates, who never hesitated to crush a competitor or acquire an upstart."

“I’m pleased that I was able to improve and EVOLVE in my play along the way,” Morgan said in a statement.

"But after playing for a few minutes, I quickly became IMMERSED in the reality created by the words on the screen."

"The nondemanding, LETHARGIC nature of the classes he was in made it difficult to fault his attitude about school."

"It’s like all those subway tokens that became OBSOLETE when New York started using magnetic cards instead."

It was a night, several of them agreed, to PONDER the future of the American arts.

"The site in Cumbria contains a number of other REDUNDANT facilities, some dating back to the 1950s and many of them heavily contaminated, which are currently being decommissioned."

"My mom, looking seriously SKEPTICAL and fed up, pushed herself off the couch and started for the kitchen."

Every author who turns fact into fiction must find a way to compress time, to OMIT events that don’t advance the story, and to be economical with the number of characters.

"The result: Despite lab reports, surveillance photographs and a detailed criminal complaint by British investigators, Russians overwhelmingly rejected the NOTION that their government was involved in the attack."

"England won the round of 16 match on penalties following 120 minutes marred by squabbling, protests to the referee, play-acting and FEIGNING injury."