Nobody loved our sentences as we loved them, and so they congealed or grew sour on our tongues.

NEWYORKER: The King of Sentences

He said the court had concluded that although the sentences on William and John Connors were lenient "neither sentence was so lenient as to require interference".

BBC: Connors family forced labour sentences upheld

He talks with a Brooklyn bluster and he tends to act out his sentences, so that when he describes the marshmallow task he takes on the body language of an impatient four-year-old.

NEWYORKER: Don��t!