In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Transnational Issues Saudi Arabia Disputes - international: nomadic groups on border region with Yemen resist demarcation of boundary; Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have been negotiating a long-contested maritime boundary with Iran; because the treaties have not been made public, the exact alignment of the boundary with the UAE is still unknown and labeled approximate Illicit drugs: death penalty for traffickers; increasing consumption of heroin, cocaine, and hashish
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Here and there bits of word-painting (with Nature as the subject) are done in no grandiloquent or inartistic fashion....
— from Nuggets in the Devil's Punch Bowl, and Other Australian Tales by Andrew Robertson

While the section actually destroyed is not, geographically speaking, much more than one-third of the city limits, yet it is in the heart of San Francisco, and includes the chief business streets and the Mission District, inhabited by poor people, and a large part of the so-called Nob Hill Quarter, where were the finest and costliest residences of the city.
— from The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston