And the novel's final line, from inside Valentine's head, is a typical and brilliant Fordian aposiopesis: "She was setting out on …" It could end there.

And he turned away with a shrug to point his admirable aposiopesis.

Raphael, Michael Angelo, Wiertz, Reynolds——” He paused, not in order to produce the effect of a dramatic aposiopesis, but because he could not for the moment remember other names of painters.

Who ever composed with greater spirit and elegance because he could define an oxymoron or an aposiopesis?”

By judicious selection, by innuendo, here a pitying aposiopesis, there an indignant outburst, the charges are heaped up.