“I revel in it each time I see it — having misremembered it, of course, since the last time, helpless to retain the nuance of the color and the velleity of the painter's touch.”
“To improve awareness of the other indicates a mere velleity to direct attention.”
“The debate in the House of Lords would convert the impartial listener from any velleity towards single-chamber government.”
“How does one hope to pay homage to such complications: to all those hops and holes in the text, those worrisome velleities?”
“And yet these velleities may be expressed in prayer, though they have not the full nature of a prayer.”
“There's a windy air of freedom in the velleities of an artist whose early education and travels had made him heir to the secrets of prior masters, from Rembrandt to Tiepolo.”
