You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, th...e proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fives, and tens, Threes and fours and twelves,... All the volte face of decimals, The whirligig of dozens and the pinnacle of seven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation--th...e great peaks we had forgotten, of Honour, Duty, Patriotism, and, clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That is to say, he writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me ...of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm (I was about to write abscess!) of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »