Sublime

With that, one-quarter rape became our district’s default sexual charge.

callousness

the embodiment of the Victorian establishment, was a subversive. He was unhappy because his children were not subversives

Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not show any sign of anger, but his spirit only calmed down when his bodyguard had sacked the widow’s house and reduced it to ashes.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in time of war: He was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he was interesting to hear and see.

‘Toby is, if I may so describe it, the heir presumptive to the heir apparent.’