Uniform Justice (Commissario Brunetti, #12)

by Donna Leon

inimical

Gracchi,

antiphon

he could think of no one he knew, at least not in this instant, whom he thought capable of suicide. But perhaps that’s why suicide fell like lightning: it was always the most unexpected people who did it.

he could think of no one he knew, at least not in this instant, whom he thought capable of suicide. But perhaps that’s why suicide fell like lightning: it was always the most unexpected people who did it. The mystery here is if the boy who died did or didn't commit suicide so pondering who is capable of suicide is relevant. Apparently social conditions are more common by far than the act itself.

peculation

Long experience had taught him that his sense of wonder was still intact and would return, bringing back with it an almost painful awareness of the beauty that surrounded him at every turn.

Long experience had taught him that his sense of wonder was still intact and would return, bringing back with it an almost painful awareness of the beauty that surrounded him at every turn.

Words, pleas, threats proved equally futile in the no-doubt biological need of the young of the human species to litter their nest. A man of meaner spirit might have considered this an infestation: Brunetti thought of it as one of nature’s ways to prepare a parent’s patience for the future, when the mess would become emotional and moral, not merely physical.

Words, pleas, threats proved equally futile in the no-doubt biological need of the young of the human species to litter their nest. A man of meaner spirit might have considered this an infestation: Brunetti thought of it as one of nature’s ways to prepare a parent’s patience for the future, when the mess would become emotional and moral, not merely physical. Leon has become very philosophical in this book focusing a lot onrunetti’s inner turmoils. Perhaps she had just become an empty nester herself. I still recall when that happened to my wife and I. We felt truly sad for several weeks. In time we began enjoying a renewed sense of freedom. I think there is a biological need for all parents to push their young out of the nest, and at the same time to feel badly about it.

fidanzata

Brunetti realized that, in Italy, scandal had the same shelf life as fresh fish: by the third day, both were worthless; one because it had begun to stink, the other because it no longer did.

Brunetti realized that, in Italy, scandal had the same shelf life as fresh fish: by the third day, both were worthless; one because it had begun to stink, the other because it no longer did.

Anna Anderson

He had long held the view that it was no accident that the

Mafia had grown in the home of the Vatican, for both demanded the same fidelity from their followers and both punished betrayal with death, either earthly or eternal. The third in this trinity of twisted loyalty was undoubtedly the military: perhaps the business of imposing death upon the enemy made it easy to impose it upon their own.

Mafia had grown in the home of the Vatican, for both demanded the same fidelity from their followers and both punished betrayal with death, either earthly or eternal. The third in this trinity of twisted loyalty was undoubtedly the military: perhaps the business of imposing death upon the enemy made it easy to impose it upon their own.