Exceedingly

Just a short comment on our political situation. It's getting worse and hard to stomach. Yet, maybe there is truth in the proverb, "The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine."

 

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Words I Would Like to Use in My Writing

I'm a collector of words and phrases that I like. I written a number of posts on both words and phrases. Here is just some words I've come across that I will try to use (at least periodically) in my writing.

abashed adj.

admonishment n.

affable

apparition n.

armamentarium n.

Artemis n.

ashen adj.

asinine adj.

aspirant n.

assail v.

atrophic adj.

Augean adj.

basementful n

basterdize v.

"battleship gray" 

begrime v.

behatted adj.

bellicose adj.

best v.

BFF n.

black hat n.

blase 

boffo adj.

bracero n.

brilliantined adj.

brio n.

broach v.

cafe-au-lait adj.

cannabilize v.

cause celebre n.

celadon adj. n.

checkered adj.

citadel n.

clandestine adj.

clishmaclaver n.

cloistered adj.

comestibles n.

comeuppance n.

complicit adj.

comport v.

confer v.

co-opt v.

coterie n.

cowed v.

crapehanger n.

damp squib n.

deference n.

Delphic adj.

diffident adj.

dispirited adj.

Damoclean Sword n.

enfeebled adj.

engage n.

erstwhile adj.

excoriate v.

facile adj.

fetching adj.

fettle n.

fictive adj.

flyspeak v.

foist v.

foment v.

frisson n.

gainful adj.

galoot n.

gastronomy n.

Gibson girl n.

grouse v.

hackerazzo n.

harebrained adj.

hoary adj.

hoi polloi n.

homo economicus n. 

hora n.

horchata n.

husband v.

ignoble adj.

imbibe v.

imbroglio n.

incandescent adj.

inciting incident n.

ineffable adj.

innards n.

in toto n.

Janus-faced adj.

jilted v.

jobsworth n.

Jumbotron n.

knedliky n.

leviathan n.

logrolling n.

lousy with Idiom.

mammon n.

mana n.

mastodonic adj.

maunder v.

Medusa n.

mendacity n.

mesmeric adj.

mystique n.

neutered adj.

noblesse oblige 

oldster n.

oligarchy n.

opsomaniac n.

overlord n.

Palladian adj.

panache n.

Panglossian adj.

parrhesia n.

parsimony n.

pauperize v.

peon n.

peripatetic adj.

pettifog v.

plebs n.

plenitude n.

Potemkin Village n.

pounce v.

prepossessing adj.

privation n.

profligate adj.

progeny n.

pulverize v.

pummel v.

Pyrrhic Victory n.

rabble-rouser n.

regnant adj. (dominant)

rail v.

reprisal n.

restive adj.

riled up idiom

riven adj.

rococo adj.

sagacity n.

savvy adj.

schlemiel n.

schlep v.

schlimazel n.

scorched-earth adj.

skein n.

soupcon n. 

splenetic adj.

succes d'estime n.

sui generis adj.

superannuated adj.

sybaritic adj.

sycophantic adj.

synergistically adv.

tabula rasa n.

taphephobia n.

teeming v. adj.

tobaggan v.

trenchant adj.

truculent adj.

turpitude n.

unabashed adj.

unburden v.

urbane adj.

vale of tears idiom.

vend v.

vestigial adj.

volte-face adj.

vox populi n.

wag n.

waggish adj.

Zelig n.

Just Some Quotes

Here are some quotes I got from a good book, Figures of Speech: 60 ways to turn a phrase, by Arthur Quinn:

--Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.   Euripides

--About suffering they were never wrong,/ The old masters.    W.H. Auden

--I am going in search of the great perhaps.    Rabelais

--Her voice is full of money.  F. Scott Fitzgerald

--A hungry stomach has no ears.    La Fontaine

--Night's candles are burnt out.  Romeo and Juliet

--All is flux, nothing stays still.    Heraclitus

--A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.  Montesquieu

--Give me chastity, but not yet.   Augustine

--Who shall stand guard to the guards themselves?    Juvenal

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Trump

I am fascinated by what our president has been doing. In fact, his actions seem to be a prelude to his undoing. His actions seem to get wilder, less calculated, and more harmful to the GOP. In other words, his deeds do not bode well for his party's November midterms.

To those of us not in the GOP or the MAGA movement, this bodes much glad tidings.

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