"Do not speak of such things, my love," her husband said, and he kissed her.
"When I was growing up, we never spoke of such things, but today it's in your face, and children now are very open about it.
Whatever the motive – and writers should never be entirely believed when they speak of such things – the Claudius novels are insanely readable tales of violence, incest and family life in the days of the Roman Imperial high noon.
She would cry and ask him not to speak of such things, and at those moments he felt that she, too, genuinely loved him, something that he often doubted, despite her professions of love.
Too gimlet-eyed for moviegoers and many critics when it came out, "Sweet Smell" ruthlessly unmasked the unholy alliance between journalism and publicity at a time when people did not speak of such things.
Honestly, I fully expected to be pulled aside at some point and politely told that a "good Christian doesn't speak of such things".
Santana comes out to her parents, who are accepting, but when she tells her abuela (grandmother), she tells Santana to leave and never return, saying it is a sin to speak of such things.
Through this reporter, O'Connor shows how little speaking of such things can matter; Dixon's talk participates in the same self-regard as Merridith's, serving to shut out the rest of the world, especially those who might have some claim on their (and our) sympathy.
In a nation where rape is a real problem, it is good to talk of such things, to draw attention, to speak up.
In a nation where rape is a real problem, it is good to talk of such things, to draw attention to them, to speak up.
