All of the guests HAD gone to the concert in the park.
(But I think it could also be have, if you are talking about it happening in the present).
Imagery of a house can be described by the outlook or overall design of the exterior walls and windows. One could acaccomplish his simply by using descriptive words to describe the look of the walls, in a way that the reader could picture it in their head.
<span>"decapitation of the government" is the idiom Jay Winik used in the second paragraph. The idiom's intended meaning is the severance of the top government officials from the remainder of civil society through assassination. I think the idiom was chosen to add a grave visual description of the sense of the moment.</span>
The excerpt that shows the low self-esteem of the
soldiers and their belief that being a soldier has nothing to do with bravery
from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," is the sentence “ The
three with the medals were like hunting-hawks; and I was not a hawk, although I
might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they, the three, knew better
and so we drifted apart.”
