in contrast to ...; unlike ...; while ...; whereas ...
your house; your home; your husband; your organization; you
last night; the previous night; night before (Christmas, etc.); eve (of festival, major event, etc.)
brilliant; bright; dazzling
characteristic (of); peculiar (to)
(sense of) presence; feeling as if one was there; feeling of actually being there; realism; ambiance
to overflow; to brim over; to flood
super-; ultra-; extremely; really; of course; definitely
metre (unit of length); meter; meter; gauge
small-sized; small-scale; miniature; small; little; tiny
worn-out; ragged; crumbling; dry and crumbly; falling (in drops or clumps); scattering
sound made when a ghost appears
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
escape from reality; escapism; ostrichism
these guys; these fellows
to lock up; to shut up; to imprison
tedious; boring; dull; to feel bored; to get bored (with); to get tired (of)
drifting; drift; being adrift
being easily frightened; losing one's nerve; coward; chatter (undesirable vibration in machine tools)
leaving behind; desertion; abandonment
intolerable; unbearable; tremendous; out of this world; cannot help (doing); cannot but do
that's the way it is; such is life
horror film; horror movie
test of courage (by going to a frightening place, e.g. a graveyard)
foolhardy; reckless; fearless
to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. of a joke)
words of praise; eulogy; compliment
meanwhile; in the meantime
to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted
subleader; assistant leader
indeed; really; very; extremely; absolutely; certainly
aspect; phase; condition; modality
to paint over; to paint out; to fill in; to cover completely (with paint)
military man; warrior; soldier
legs and loins; lower body; foundations; underpinnings
to (make something) quiver; to shake; to tremble; to vibrate
to correct oneself; to restate
inside one's heart; in one's mind
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
old family; old-established family; one's old home; one's childhood home
lack of information; data deficiency