And being made from the straightest of the straight-grained hinoki tree (Japanese cypress), it is a formidably expensive piece of wood.

ECONOMIST: AN ENGINEERING MYSTERY

PMOS, these days a career civil servant who is obliged to play with the straightest of bats, has answered as best he can, they persist, trying to make him say more than he wishes or even, perish the thought, to catch him out in some way.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot