OK, I only have one example, from this morning, but man. From CNN.com’s story on Hurricane Isabel:
How about inserting the word “tree” in there somewhere? Good God, that’s a hell of an image to be confronted with over your morning Cheerios.
Ewww . . . I encountered a sentence in our own magazine last month that I axed before it hit print: “By the time we’re in our forties, breast cancer is on everyone’s lips.”
There was a delightful story some time back about a special British spy base on Malta (?) wherein several homosexual operatives may have become compromised (due to off-base dalliances), “while holding their sensitive posts.”*
- Thank you Herb Caen.
PS: Good catch, Eve.