Sublime

True prose stylists carry on an impassioned lifelong love affair with words, banishing mediocre ones like so many uninteresting suitors, burnishing the good ones till they shimmer. Be infatuated, be seduced, be obsessed.

Relish every word. Aim deep, but be simple. Take risks. Seek beauty. Find the right pitch.

‘who have been put on earth with the sole purpose of ruining your personal life’.

As for the area where our Usage Panel was conservative, we upheld most of the classic distinctions in grammar—“can” and “may,” “fewer” and “less,” “eldest” and “oldest,” etc.—and decried the classic errors, insisting that “flout” still doesn’t mean “flaunt,” no matter how many writers flaunt their ignorance by flouting the rule, and that “fortuitou

‘we live by the Golden Rule: those who have the gold make the rules’.