important-stepping

Updated: May 11, 2025

People on artificial errands, hurrying like obedient automations through the streets; stern-faced people with dignified eyes, important-stepping people with grave decision stamped upon them; careless, innocuous-looking people all these people look as if they had something in their heads, as if there were things of import driving them through the streets. But this is an error.

Ben Hecht - A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago