Most principles are limp until they are tested.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.