My father having to give up a promising career as a musician, due to the slight inconvenience of being driven off a cliff.

The storms in this era are like teenage angst, heavy and unreasonably intense.

Al has known more than one unfortunate soul that has lost his ability to talk, after forgetting to hold his tongue.

... the director explained to him, in that slow, simplified, style of language that one uses for the intellectually underprivileged,