Figures of expansion and contraction create vivid and moving portrayals by emphasizing and deemphasizing.
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My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it - Edward Kennedy
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This was not Aunt Dahlia, my good and kindly aunt, but my Aunt Agatha, the one who chews broken bottles and kills rats with her teeth - P.G. Wodehouse
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Have you been down a coal-mine? I was telling you I went down one the other day. We sank down into a pit half a mile deep. We then walked underneath the mountain and we did about three-quarters of a mile with rock and shale above us. The earth seemed to be straining - around us and above us - to crush us in - David Lloyd George
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Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness - George Orwell
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Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman - P.G. Wodehouse |
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation: Is that good for the world? - Christopher Hitchens
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