“He was professional, cut, chiseled. His slacks had a crease in them that could cut weeds if he walked through a field of tall grass, not that he did this very often. His one idiosyncratic feature was that he always looked like he was chewing beef jerky whenever he talked, but most people who even …
Completely Full
“Radavic couldn’t quite catch what he was saying, but Bradford could see the prosecutor’s neck get bigger. He had never seen a neck so full of righteousness” (Evangellyfish, p. 197).
When the Glory Diminished
“Bradford watched in fascination as Radavic pulled open the thick wooden courtroom door and walked in, the embodiment of civic duty. After the glory subsided somewhat, three reporters followed him in” (Evangellyfish, p. 197).
A Fairly Large Beanbag Chair
“And then, as if in response to someone throwing a big breaker somewhere, Robert P. Warner II slumped, shumped, and fell to the floor. He there assumed the demeanor and outlook of a bean bag chair and ceased cooperating with the world” (Evangellyfish, p. 195).
A Real Stand-Out
“She was competent, hard-driving, and ambitious, which successfully grouped her in with about three million other blonde local news reporters” (Evangellyfish, p. 187).
Sprayed a Couple Times
“So the meeting began with a financial report, which Bill Turner had prepared for them, the bottom line of which looked like someone had been spraying it with Roundup” (Evangellyfish, p. 184).
It Was a Fat Robin
“She was the kind of woman whose absolute support was freely and completely given, until it gave way like a saturated California hillside. Then it was mostly at the bottom with a car or two underneath. The final event that would cause the hillside to give way might be completely trivial — perhaps a robin …
Arriving Daily
“Pastoral snarls are like the mercies of God — they are new every morning” (Evangellyfish, p. 175).
Straight Out of the Carton
“But despite the untruths involved, they nevertheless made good copy, and the editors ate it all up with a spoon, straight out of the carton. One of those editors had read some Derrida in college, and so he was good with the idea of perspectives from every which direction, especially if it made good copy” …
Legally Speaking
“Not that they knew about it at the time, but Shattuck had pulled all their shirts up over their heads and rolled all their socks down, creating a little black wool bead around the tops of their expensive Italian shoes” (Evangellyfish, p. 164).