It indicates a spontaneous, Promethean rebelliousness against that fiat that this recurrent season shall bring foul times, cold darkness, misery and death.
Her appearance accorded well with this smouldering rebelliousness, and the shady splendour of her beauty was the real surface of the sad and stifled warmth within her.
But what has surprised him is the rebelliousness of Tories from the largely working-class " red seats" who were carried to the House of Commons on Mr Johnson's coattails.