If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision,' you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.