A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of ...
But it felt like their heart wasn’t in it. Unhappy, but not furious. Maybe it’s because the grimness had been drawn out, a slow and flat sigh of a performance, in which their first effort on ...
This disposition frequently gives them a certain grimness. [WFB’s] singular achievement has been a compatible marriage between conservatism and cheerfulness. A reader is not so cheerful about ...