“The orographic and climatic conditions of the land, the character of its inhabitants, the inveterate traditions of its provinces, resulted in diversity and strife rather than in a common effort.”
“For the first time, we begin to trace a keener sense of an obstinate, inveterate principle of evil.”
“He makes movies about problem people, often inveterate liars, who are found out, but who are so compellingly alive and above the world that people let them pass.”