"An insult."

While in Happy Mount Park, Morecambe, with my daughter and granddaughter, I drank coffee, read ahead in Poul Anderson's Perish By The Sword and took some notes.

This sentence will seem familiar to Poul Anderson fans:

"And now sunlight spilled across a windy world, and clouds were quick and bright in the sky." (7, p. 65)

An accomplished author always finds new word combinations to describe perennial phenomena: sunlight; wind; clouds; the sky. However, I have quoted only the opening sentence of this paragraph. The following phrase, not grammatically a sentence because it lacks a predicate, is:

"An insult." (ibid.)

Here we read the human reaction. The suffering viewpoint character resents the "'...beautiful day...'" (p. 66) because it contrasts with his inner state.

As Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote:

Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales;	10
Only the inmate does not correspond:

-copied from here.