For example, you could see the most intelligent among them pretending to search the newspapers, or radio broadcasts, for reasons to believe that the plague would shortly end; and apparently they built imaginary hopes or felt unfounded terrors on reading the views that some journalist had set down more or less by chance, while yawning with boredom.
Ikus zitekeen, esate baterako, nola haien arteko burutsuenek, mundu guztiaren antzera, egunkaritan, edota irrati saiotan, izurritearen bukaera azkarrean sinesteko arrazoiak bilatzen ariko baliratekeen plantak azaltzen zituzten, eta ametsezko itxaropenak itxuraz onartu, edota funtsik gabeko kezkak nozitu, kazetariren batek, asperturik aho zabalka, nola hala idatzitako burutazioak irakurtzerakoan.