Vehement insulting ironic casual Answer: I believe " vehement " is the correct answer. It means that it shows strong, powerful, passionate speech and tone.
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The narrator recounts meeting a tourist from an ancient land who informed him about a statue ruin in his own country's desert. A gigantic, decaying stone skull rests “half-sunk” in the sand alongside two massive stone legs. The tourist said the statue's scowl and "sneer of frigid authority" show the sculptor grasped the subject's emotions or "passions." Even though both the sculptor and his subject are now deceased, their feelings remain "imprinted" on the lifeless statue.
B) Who's books are those?
"Who's" is a contraction of "who is." The correct sentence would be "Whose books are those?"