“The narrator apparently enjoys describing some of the obscene scenes in the novel.”

“It was an acrid smell, an obscene smell, a smell at once coppery and metallic, but also earthy, oily, a smell that was unnatural and acidic and yet cloying, musky, sweet. It was the smell of human flesh burning.”

“I don't think the president is even aware of his administration's hypocrisy and obscene lack of morality.”