Sublime

Character: Show that the witness has been dishonest in other statements or actions, or has criminal convictions suggesting dishonesty.

xenia?’

the defendants could in this light be seen as victims of “a political trial”, of a “legal lynching”, of a case “rigged from the very beginning” by the decision of “the white press”

portentousness

The Christmas Egg consolidated Kelly’s developing reputation as a quirky, intelligent crime novelist, but she was never interested in following fashion or working to a template. Later, in an excess of modesty that seems typical of her, she would describe the three Nightingale books as “sins of my youth”.

then the man she left it for kept her dependent on an allowance from him, and even though his death could have made her rich again, she had rejected