Calm, luminous calm: this is a picture that exudes tranquillity and light. And it achieves that not by being static and brilliantly lit, it does it, rather, by careful measurement: by balancing forms in the picture space and distributing areas of light and shade in telling proportions.
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Even highly literate writers are caught out by the interlocking permutations of the two verbs ‘to lay’ and ‘to lie’.
The dissident Scottish Nationalist MSP is speaking up for disgruntled voters, on whichever side of the independence debate, more eloquently than opposition parties.
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