That night, Amar told Karim that, at the morgue, he had sworn over his brother's body to take revenge.
Now in Kabul to help police with the investigation, he has told them of being marched uphill as he recited the Qur'an, praying to be spared, swearing over and over again he was a true Muslim.
Cara's character, Amy, is the sort of sweet, girl-next-door foil to Susan's Raquel, who swears, over-shares and flounders her way from one social situation to the next.
I've given numerous talks on the science of swearing over the years.
A deformed Pope gropes everyone on stage, muses wear pregnancy padding, the cast shriek and swear over Ravel's La Valse.
In the kitchen, maestro Zilli and the chef at his restaurant Zilli Fish, Pasquale Amico, are swearing over a new and controversial recipe book.
This explains why LeVine was able to swear over the Constitution rather than the Bible, which is a much more common choice.
The stark reality, however, is that in 21st-century Britain, where Christmas seems largely about swearing over the last trolley in Morrisons' car park, our festive culture has narrowed horribly.
The talk is often about his books, with some readers even counting the number of times a particular character swears over an entire story, but it almost always lapses into rhapsodies of praise for the fresh-faced writer's looks ("Ps. I love ur dmpls ♥ ♥") followed by declarations of true love ("ohh god… this pic makes me fall in love with u again and again…").
Modern society has become de-sensitized to swearing over the last couple of decades, but back in the 70s and 80s when I was a kid, the F-word was considered taboo.
