Proponents point to features such as the terraced "beaches" shown in one image, which could conceivably have been left behind as a lake or ocean evaporated and the shoreline receded.
Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.
Relieve a friend's anxiety, " he said, with no change of his voice and tone, in which indifference, and even irony, was perceptible through the veil of courtesy and sympathy."