1.   Cochran wanted people in that jury box with a distrust of the system anchored in the very marrow of their bones.

2.   Ellison was integrationist in his very marrow, and in these times of intense identity politics and multiculturalism, that puts him outside the contemporary trendy mainstream.

3.   The way Neil Steinberg sees it, ruin and humiliation are the very marrow of life.

4.   Worthwhile things include the transcendent magic of poetry, insights that thrill the very marrow with the danger of ultimate truth.