Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me and everybody

The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.

Russia and Ukraine should as quickly as possible find a sustainable compromise which does not affect gas deliveries to Europe.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language

worthy of their human nature.

We simply have no right to compromise and give in to our old nature