You used those short, broken sentences that sounded as if you were spitting out the words, as if you had just learned them but already despised them, even the simplest ones.
He has scorned concerns over the interest cost on Italy's vast public debt, which Mr Monti had almost halved before Mr Berlusconi's reappearance panicked investors.
To treat their poems mainly as documents of personal experience is not just to diminish the poets' achievement, but to ignore their unanimous disdain for the idea of confessional poetry.