“And while all this was going on, that drunken sot whom Amin had just disciplined, arrived on the scene.”

“I heard a discussion about Georgian wine glasses that morphed into the disclosure that Georgians, both rich and poor, were drunken sots.”

“This famous game of war is played by parasites, panderers, bandits, assassins, peasants, sots, bankrupts, and such other dregs of mankind.”

“On a terrific set these lost sots enact a comedy-drama whose relevance extends to the soberest souls among us.”