“For much of my life, I have worked as a purveyor of fine fabrics, trading in silk from Damascus and linen from Egypt, and scarves from Morocco that are embroidered with gold.”
“Unusually among modernist artists, this supposed purveyor of nihilism was a militant of the left rather than the right.”
“Yet her succession of popular novels and her culminating betrayal suggest her moral decline into a purveyor of gossip.”