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pièce de résistance
(Fr.) most outstanding item, particularly applied to the finest dish in a meal.
(The Penguin Dictionary for Writers and Editors)
miles gloriosus
not -sis; pronounced meel'-us glore-ee-oh'-sus; a braggart, particularly a braggart soldier
(The Penguin Dictionary for Writers and Editors)
malevolent / malignant
'Malevolent' is literally 'wishing ill', as a 'malevolent' look or tone of voice. 'Malignant', a more powerful word, means 'wishing to cause harm' as a 'malignant' delight in someone else's misfortunes. With reference to diseases it means 'causing death', as a 'malignant' growth -- contrasted with a 'benign' one which is not normally fatal.
(The Penguin Dictionary of the Confusibles)
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 Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof.
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
In 1517, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.
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"Thank You"
posted Monday, August 26, 2002:
 Thank you for the impressionable weekend, for the tasty things to eat, the avacados, artichokes, pistachios, and meals cooked on the grill. Thank you for holding my hand six miles. Thank you for holding me. Thank you for the laughter and the jokes, but thank you also for the serious conversations, the probing questions, and what-ifs. Thank you for making me feel included, and for taking the initiative to gain my trust. Thank you for throwing the frisbee in the park. Thank you for making plans with me. Thank you for being a friend and a lover. Thank you. «
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