How striking then – and dispiriting – to read recent reports that the compensation to over 400 sex abuse victims has been reduced because they had themselves committed criminal offences, including offences involving drink and drugs.
How striking that Jesus, although he lived 1,900 years earlier, seemed remarkably absent of condescension toward women.
But she had no idea how striking her expression had become to others until a trip to the grocery store several years ago.
Much of the argument in the case, McCullen v. Coakley, No. 12-1168, concerned how striking down the Massachusetts buffer zones would affect similar zones nationwide around funerals, slaughterhouses, fraternal lodges, political conventions, circuses and the sites of labor disputes.
How striking is this: "E and I were going to make love in the afternoon and while cleaning herself on the bidet, she began to bleed from her bumsie.
How striking, though, that two of today's misfits, Mr. Adrover and Mr. Scott, should choose to deal with these issues, Mr. Scott by creating erotic beachwear from scraps of suede and chiffon.
