Some opera singers

Usage examples of soprani.

It's sixty minutes about women who've had mastectomies, which at seven‑thirty, over breakfast, before the office, I couldn't bear to sit through, but after today – hanging out at the office, where the air‑conditioning broke down, a tedious lunch with Cunningham at Odeon, my fucking Chinese cleaners unable to get bloodstains out of another Soprani jacket, four videotapes overdue that ended up costing me a fortune, a twenty‑minute wait at the Stairmasters – I've adapted.

In addition to the Soprani jacket, the shirts and tie, I bring along a bag of bloodstained sheets that also need cleaning.

I hold up a hand with the cigar in it, the Soprani jacket draped over my other arm.

I put the bill slowly back into the pocket of my Luciano Soprani jacket and with the other hand stop petting the dog and reach into the other pocket.

One of the Mexicans working behind the counter stares at me while smoking a cigarette and he studies the stains on the Soprani jacket in a way that suggests he's going to say something about it, but a customer comes in, one of the black guys who tried to sell me crack earlier, and he has to take the black guy's order.