That leaders depend on followers might seem blindingly obvious, but the way that people lower down the ladder interact with those above them gets much less attention than the reverse.
He took the war as a gift of revenge from the high gods to himself, and the constant burden of his harangues was that these rookies did not appreciate the full gravity and responsibility of " the service" .
She would have regarded the slightest symptom of sensibility as a kind of moral drunkenness which puts one to the blush and was extremely prejudicial to what a person of high rank owed to herself.
After viewing objects in this light, it would not be very fanciful to imagine, that this world was a stage on which a pantomime is daily performed for the amusement of superiour beings.
Yeah, she's like, but that person whose throat you stepped on is like an opportunity that you've squashed that will never ever come back to be an opportunity.
Not only did they owe their position to his favor, but many of them, you know, came through family connections, which had now been in place for decades.