Dispensing with the kind of novelistic portraiture that drives me crazy "the suggestion of a Roman nose, flanked by off-mauve eyes slightly too close together, " I can be concise.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Gone Tomorrow'

Nature gave Donatella one bold Roman nose.

FORBES: My 30-Hour Trip Home From Qatar

My nose would be Roman if my head were smaller.

NPR: Chapter 1