A generation of post-colonial novelists has been mixing native words and phrasings into their English prose, without translation, italics or explanation.
The notion that Israel had no friends outside America, or could be “the” (his italics) threat to world peace, struck even some of his friends as extreme.
Marksville, although occupying a prominent position, and standing out in impressive italics on the map of Louisiana, is, in fact, but a small and insignificant hamlet.