That damaged his lungs, causing a kind of pneumonia, Mrs. Bryson said.
He evinced a furtive joy in the misfortune he was causing, a kind of surreptitious euphoria, and it was not entirely foreign to his host.
Corn makes it unnaturally acidic, however, causing a kind of bovine heartburn, which in some cases can kill the animal but usually just makes it sick.
Simultaneously, Johnson attacked the government for not having made the case for Brexit and, thereby, causing a "kind of hysteria, a contagious mourning of the kind that I remember in 1997 after the death of the Princess of Wales".
Fake news, and the proliferation of raw opinion that passes for news, is creating confusion, punching holes in what is true, causing a kind of fun-house effect that leaves the reader doubting everything, including real news.
Here Brodsky offers a visual image - the way that dazzling lights make straight lines blur and frazzle, thus causing a kind of brief visual "stampede" - and then slides, via the comparison of the colonnades to Hannibal's elephants, away from the visual to the hypothetical.
