Aeolyss

"thirty pages are reproduced in facsimile"

"he stumped away on short thick legs"

"she squinched her face up"

"his lively, alert manner belied his years"

"he was not noticeably discomfited by her tone"

"upwelling grief"

"his public statements became increasingly pugnacious"

"her fastidious—but never fussy—prose"

"it's terrible to feel our livelihood hinges on a capricious boss"

"he stole down to the kitchen"

"he was released after pressure had been brought to bear by the aid agencies"

"the room was festooned with balloons and streamers"

"the detail gives the novel some verisimilitude"

"“Just do it!” came the peremptory reply"

"creation may travail in pain but it cannot escape its destiny"

"this particular itinerant won't make the first move."

"incontrovertible proof"

"treacherous, duplicitous behavior"

"this belief of yours does not comport with reality"

"The very caprices that cause him to be evil are what stop him from being as dangerous as he might be"

"i'm a little beyond needing spinal taps to understand my interlocutors"

"in his mind’s eye he saw his own recumbent form marring a perfect white examination table"

"irrefutable, objective verity"

"work is the only thing which will keep the cafard at bay"

"effete trendies from art college"

"Mary, mouth full of potato, waves her off with an acutely insincere insouciance."

"she braved her mother's disapprobation and slipped out to enjoy herself"

"we believe the board is abrogating its responsibilities to its shareholders"

"she loved travel, with all its concomitant worries"

"A forenote: some of them, due to their rarity, are priced high."

"and the gasp of a sensualist who has at last discovered some sensation as yet unimagined escaped his full lips."

"an artless, naïve girl"

"she slapped his cheek and a bright red weal sprang up on it"

"He is best known for his political treatise The Prince"

"a polemical essay"

"the language my father used was beyond the pale"

"'bobbit' would be an example of a neologism"

"there is an apocryphal story about a disgraced rock star who ended up in bankruptcy court"

"For obvious reasons, Luminous tries to present this as a positive move for the company, but there's a trace of something elegiac in its released statement."

portend - to omenize | a thing you do, a behavior you exhibit : a portent - a thing you can point at: "that's an omen!"

"the secret nature of his work precluded official recognition"

"they accused him of fomenting political unrest"

"they will try to inculcate you with a respect for culture"

"a pall of black smoke hung over the quarry"

"Diana passed the test with aplomb"

"doing research under the auspices of the local historical society"

"critics thought they belabored the obvious"

"she dressed with consummate elegance"

"a crescent moon limned each shred with white gold"