Sublime

'The lower the caste,' said Mr. Foster, 'the shorter the oxygen.' The first organ affected was the brain. After that the skeleton. At seventy per cent. of normal oxygen you got dwarfs. At less than seventy, eyeless monsters.

“Mr. Constant,” he said, “right now you’re as easy for the Bureau of Internal Revenue to watch as a man on a street corner selling apples and pears. But just imagine how hard you would be to watch if you had a whole office building jammed to the rafters with industrial bureaucrats—men who lose things and use the wrong forms and create new forms and

The first and most striking feature is a stupidity that rises into a sort of ghastly innocence.

St. Paul’s “He who will not work shall not eat” holds unconditionally for everyone.25 Unwillingness to work is symptomatic of the lack of grace.

Pickwickian

“Constitutions

it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9