"It's all on one shoulder now," Ms. D'Amato said.
Servers bustled purposefully through the narrow room, balancing enormous trays of food on one shoulder.
On one shoulder, an angel is telling me I'm above such puerility.
He has a bedroll slung on one shoulder and stoops a little from the weight.
The tattooed face of a cat, blue and grinning, covered his right hand; on one shoulder a blue rose blossomed.
He arrived there with Xan Fielding, his comrade in arms, who had a barrel of Cretan wine on one shoulder, and with Joan.
He said an angel on one shoulder begged him to pipe down while a devil on the other goaded him on.
"It's like in cartoons when some character has a devil on one shoulder," the boy says, "and an angel on the other".
On the issue of climate change, Trump resembles a character with an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other.
The Buddhist monk Tapa Snim I met in Burma in 2007, all of whose earthly possessions he carried in a small bundle slung on one shoulder.
My Better Angel of Economic Temperance was on one shoulder, and my inner Courtney Love on the other, sobbing: "Just bu-u-u-u-uy it!
