“The company constantly uses nonrecurring items such as restructuring charges to make its net income look better than cash flow would suggest.”

“Brian is recognized as a comedian with unprecedented mass appeal and for the fact that his enormous arsenal of jokes is entirely clean.”

“Prince Napoleon was the acknowledged hero of the hour, surprising everyone by his genius as a statesman, by his charm as a cultivated gentleman and man of the world.”

“No monk was infallible and it was recognized that everyone would at some point commit a minor transgression.”

“It was a traditional wooden house, but recently rebuilt, so there was a pleasant smell of cedar as I entered the porch.”

“She was a slender woman, almost frail, hiding the grief in her washed-out eyes behind a black veil.”