"The aggression and brutalness were shocking." Your word choice of brutalness over brutality struck me. I looked up the difference and wondered what you may have meant by choosing the one over the other. —Your very detail-oriented reader : )
Hah. A copyeditor and I might have debated that point. One is just more common than the other, but they mean the same thing. As a South African I am just going to have some different idioms/ways of expressing things.
I continue to be impressed with the willingness of diplomatic staff such as Eleanor to live and work under very difficult and dangerous conditions to represent their country and build relationships.
"The aggression and brutalness were shocking." Your word choice of brutalness over brutality struck me. I looked up the difference and wondered what you may have meant by choosing the one over the other. —Your very detail-oriented reader : )
And I concur wholeheartedly with Frank!
Hah. A copyeditor and I might have debated that point. One is just more common than the other, but they mean the same thing. As a South African I am just going to have some different idioms/ways of expressing things.
Just what I thought. : )
I continue to be impressed with the willingness of diplomatic staff such as Eleanor to live and work under very difficult and dangerous conditions to represent their country and build relationships.
It’s funny, one just took it along with everything else. It was just the package.