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Yet Khamenei and other leaders have fallen back on their wonted explanation for social strife, exonerating themselves and blaming outside forces instead.

Not only does the moment underline the fascination of Lecter, but it also subverts classical music’s wonted role as signifier of the good.

Beebee was still alive as late as May 1779, when Georgiana wrote to Franklin that the squirrel had “grown quite old & has lost his eyesight, but nevertheless preserves his spirits & wonted activity.”

On the occasion of Kipling’s garden, it took my intervention to nudge her along her wonted course … the spiral to despair.

Rockwell was a lifelong liberal who, toward the end of his career, eschewed his wonted whimsy to agitate powerfully for the civil-rights movement.