coś po części dobre, po części złe

break a leg

let your hair down

paint the town red

activity

entertainment

event

I am not going to throw in the towel after the first unsuccessful rehearsal, but I want to change how I practise.

The ambiguity of the ending is not an accidental omission but a deliberate device.

The power of this scene lies more in what remains unspoken than in what is said.

The narrator does not so much conceal the facts as arrange them to impose a particular perspective on us.

That apparent lightness of tone makes the criticism resonate all the more sharply.

Leaving the character's motives unstated allows two conflicting interpretations to coexist without deciding which is correct.