It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to—or you ignored at your peril.
Putting Mr. Polopetsi in charge of the investigation is like putting a rabbit in charge of the airport.
The juvenile adage Never kiss and tell had a sound moral instinct behind it.
There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.