Sublime

covetous

boxes in the States: Tastee

chiaroscuro).

His gallantry reliably extends to whatever is disadvantaged, homely, long-suffering, foreign or feminine. Kind to stragglers and also-rans, to well-meaning duds and worthies, and correspondingly cautious in his praise of acknowledged stars and masters, Updike’s view of twentieth-century literature is a levelling one. Talent, like life, should be

blasé

On the heels of deathcall there’s a great flood, biblical in its scope and timing.

Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.