[Its] language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting. |
John Henry Newman was as English as roast beef, even if he lacked a passion for cricket. |
The Ely Experience: 'Private Morals and Public Truth' |
They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining the old language: If the churches give it up, who will remember how to say what is said? |