With or without her right-hand man, Ms Rousseff will have to act decisively if these expectations of inflation are not to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

ECONOMIST: Brazil's president

He had been living as a dead man for years, and without her sudden presence in his suffocating cloister, coaxing and tempting him, he would certainly have died a dead man.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

That she could observe the young man without his observing her.

NEWYORKER: Pumpkin Head

At this point in his rant, an elderly woman pulling a shopping trolley bustles past the man without even slowing and continues on her way.

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Those people were gone now, and the man who served the chops and sausages took her credit card without a second glance.

NEWYORKER: The Bell Ringer

Her selective approach also allows her to focus on man's impact on island ecosystems, without getting diverted by the many quirks of island societies or the curious characters that turn up there.

ECONOMIST: Island life

He was at his core a fearful, law-abiding, overly cautious man, yet he let her walk past him into his apartment without a word.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian