Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus?
It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.
The new political gospel: public office is private graft.
Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.
I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn't graft permanently.
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.
I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
Painting it was hard graft. . . in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.
It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials. . . from Hell's Angels, Black Panthers and Chicano street fighters to Roxanne Pulitzer and even Richard Nixon, back in the good old days before he was run out of the White House for fraud, perjury, graft, and criminal negligence.
Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.
The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.
