In 16th-century France, with the Renaissance backed by the Reformation and the advent of printing, French really assumed the remaining scholarly, scientific, and religious functions of Latin, and efforts were made to put together a worthy national language from dialect and Latin sources.
In a language worthy of the Spanish Inquisition, one of them said, "This is what mercy is about.
"Then, in language worthy of a Pravda editorial, I was accused of every kind of mortal sin against the beloved motherland," Svetlana wrote.
His essays, collected in "The Undertaking" and "Bodies in Motion and at Rest," are among the loveliest in the language, worthy of Hazlitt and Lamb.
For last Monday's paper, the first morning after the snow, the Times led the paper with language worthy of Genesis--or of Whittaker Chambers, at least: "A monstrous, crippling blizzard that experts said would make history attacked the New York metropolitan region and much of the East yesterday with blinding show that was expected to become more than two feet deep before ending today.
The titles below are just a few of many worthy overtures to language.
Some years ago I wrote a graduate-school thesis, in which I believe I remarked that the way William Shakespeare manipulated the heartbeat of his iambic pentameter so as to effortlessly reveal his characters' internal states-of-mind was enough to qualify him as an absolute master of the English language, worthy of continued study and critical praise.
This smokescreen of language is worthy of George Orwell's Newspeak.
Others, including academics who run the Lagos-based Naija Langueji Akademi, see the language as worthy of scholarly study, and important in bridging huge educational divides.
But it also provides a rare, detailed look at workers' frantic efforts to save the plant, portraying (in measured technical language) scenes worthy of the most gripping disaster movies.
