“That fall and winter, Long forbearingly shepherded me through rewrites of the papers he assigned, and incrementally I started to get the hang of it.”

“The important point here is not so much that the British treated him forbearingly as that he was always able to command publicity, Orwell wrote.”

“He shrugged forbearingly, and stared at a framed photograph of Monsieur Cordier on the mantelpiece.”