1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 22, From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 Francehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stmEngland's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.
