It was only when there were questions from the floor that the evening became lively

It was only when there were questions from the floor that the evening became lively. People on both sides of the debate shouted and told stories of a personal nature which they mistook for proof of whatever it was they believed.

H. Jacobson, The Finckler Question (2010), 283

She looked too amazed by life to be English

She looked too amazed by life to be English. Her curls were too curly. Her lips were too big. Her teeth too white and even, like one big tooth arc of tooth with regular vertical markings. And her breasts had too much elevation and attack to be English. Had Jane Austen's heroines had breasts like these they would not have worried about ending up without a husband.

H. Jacobson, The Finckler Question (2010), 83