English with a Difference, Day 1

1. Flattery was deeply ingrained in his psyche as he was born and brought up in the country atmosphere where only sycophancy  ensured survival.

2. It gave constabulary freedom to harass all his subordinates.
3. His farewell speech to his fellow colleagues was a tour de force ( something accomplished with great skill)  of sentimental oratory.

4. He began to suffer the odium (widespread hatred)  with which they began to regard his community.

5. Hardly had John regained his equipoise, than his brother began to exhibit boorishness unbecoming of his lineage towards an elder to whom he initially owed his position.

6. His predecessors disappeared into pastoral oblivion after their retirement.

7. Success was to him a gift given to him by the Almighty God, not something owed to him by virtue of his abilities.

8. Mortals who allow notions of divinity to germinate in them come to grief.

9. He kept long hours in office, which he wasted on trivialities such as checking the menus of the canteen.

10. There was never enough work to justify imposing this discomfort on me.

11. I gave her a dressing down till she broke down.

12. He had a strong streak of sadism in his personality.

13. she found the puritanical atmosphere of Pakistan particularly stifling.

14. He had that bold, brazen kind of look that makes timid men like me turn their gaze down.

15. A bottle of mustard oil cost twice as much in Pakistan as it did in India.