I never did arrive at an answer for that one, but it really doesn’t matter, since I was “expunged from the rolls of the honored ones” some time ago for failure to quit smoking and a general lack of interest.

We can readily conceive demonic devices in which information is neither acquired nor acted upon.

Some ideologists, such as Kingoro Hashimoto, borrowed concepts of social justice mixed in with militarism, in proposing a single party dictatorship, based on egalitarian populism, patterned after the European fascist movements.

There seems to be no hard and fast rule for these. I generally italicize and if the coughing gets really bad, I use bold.

A technological break through allows humans to communicate with whales. This creates new problems, instead of solving old ones.

“That is literally the epitome of fake news,” Mr. Spicer told reporters traveling with Mr. Trump. “Start at the top. I don’t think the president owns a bathrobe. He definitely doesn’t wear one.”

Anyone familiar with the Decker web series knows that Heidecker’s increasingly interested in the idea of himself playing an incompetent version of himself playing (or at least trying to play) a badass.

Its tax system and administration were so efficient that the empire survived more than a thousand years.

Being a graduate student is the most grueling and intense part of becoming a scientist, but it rarely leads to murder.

“As to animals,” said the Count unexpectedly, “whatever one says, I maintain that the rodent family has a certain charm about it.”

“The rodent family …?” replied the Baron, not getting the drift at all.

“Rabbits, marmots, squirrels, and the like.”