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compound complex

Litotes: a form of understatement or intensified expression.

A figure lean or corpulent, tall or short, though deviating from beauty, may still have a certain union of the various parts, which may contribute to make them on the whole not unpleasing. --Sir Joshua Reynolds

compound complex

Fish die belly-upward and rise to the surface; it is their way of falling."

-- Andre Gide

restrangled

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

Victor Hugo

mindmelda

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. - Confucius

JeffT

From Dragnet, in one episode Harry Morgan's character is searching through a thesarus for new words to put into their reports. Jack Webb tells him to try "obfuscate." Harry flips a couple of pages and reads:

To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: “A great effort was made . . . to obscure or obfuscate the truth” (Robert Conquest)
To render indistinct or dim; darken: The fog obfuscated the shore.

Heaven

"How can I describe it? Good food is like music you can taste, colour you can smell. There is excellence all around you. You need only to be aware to stop and savour it!"

-- Chef Auguste Gusteau - 'Ratatouille'

glenster

http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Belle_of_Amherst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eglXAZNKrMs
There are some things the mind sees the eyes cannot
And there are some things the heart knows
the mind does not begin to understand
("They Might be Giants")

chickpea

of late his companionship has been far from convivial
but one should expect no less from one yet to breech
the divide between true graciousness and immature
obsessive concern with self

snowbird

"I'm sick of hearing how great the Soviets are! Screw 'em!"

Sylvia

minimus

Confucius say, "many men smoke but fu man chu".

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