Anchor: Roy's inventive narrative style (multiple flashbacks, rotating narrators) and the exuberant, almost acrobatic nature of the writing itself (Alice Truax, the New York Times Book Review ) are singled out as breathtaking.
Entailed: Roy has a narrative style that is most inventive.
Contradiction: Roy is neither inventive nor exuberant.
Contradiction: The path was a dead end.
Contradiction: The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia from the fifth-century is the most ancient of the Byzantine monuments.
Contradiction: I don't like the hickory taste.
Contradiction: I tried on the size 38 microfiber model.