Seelye argues that editors the magic that will make their magazines fly off the shelves (604).

Although their advertisements are the subject of her analysis, George's statement that "I am not criticizing the work of Habitat for Humanity" (623).

If more adolescents are becoming vegetarian, it may be related to "YouTube animal slaughter videos that shock the developing sensibilities of many U.S. children" (Stobbe 649).

Mantsios counters that "regressive changes" tax policy along with a loss of influence for organized labor helped create a "significant rise in the level of inequality" between wealthy and middle-income Americans (701).

Didion suggests that "grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it" (929).

Describing a decline in the behavior of young people, Stephen L. Carter worries that "the weird rhetoric of a self-indulgent age resists the idea that we should have" self-control and good manners (672).

Parini says of Warren Buffett that "already he thinks of himself as someone who will give away what he has to those in need" (938).

When evaluating the BlackBerry, Pogue complains, "he hasn't found a soul who tried this machine who wasn't appalled, baffled or both" (D7).

"Do temperamentally violent kids seek out shows that express feelings they already have" Cutler asks (64)?