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In a sober ceremony, the Mexica abjured their old religion and embraced Christianity. 1491

Baby Kochamma, who had been put in charge of their formal education, had read them an abridged version of The Tempest by Charles and Mary Lamb. The God of Small Things

To have a black bean chili with warm bread and olive oil, followed by a scoop of gelato, isn’t to me to suffer through some abstemious, vegan repast. Salon (Jan 27, 2014)

He showed his business acumen by selling the compasses relatively cheaply and charging a healthy tuition fee to anyone who wanted to know how to use it. The Scientists

The antebellum plantation system had never taken root in West Virginia the way it had farther east and south. Hidden Figures

It was auspicious, his arrival, a day after she put up her blog and a week after she resigned. Americanah

A kind of city-street music where laughter belies anxiety, and joy is as short and straight as the blade of a pocketknife. The Bluest Eye

Honeybees become “wildly agitated and bellicose” on contact with it, perform frantic cleaning movements, and are near death within half an hour. Silent Spring

Cable may get away with more than the networks do, but the bowdlerized versions of The Sopranos , Sex and the City , and even Dexter prove that the sex and violence aren't integral to the storytelling. Newsweek (Dec 11, 2009)

The dramatization of the behind-the-scenes chicanery of political campaigns, moreover, has a peculiar antipolitical cynicism. The New Yorker (Nov 16, 2018)