“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men,(nb..), the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,(nb..)!”
(RQ:Wodehouse Offing)
puhekieltä Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.