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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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"Dreams, Dead and Otherwise"
posted Sunday, January 14, 2001:
Scott was sitting across from me. His hair was longer and straight, and he wore a heavy grey ski jacket, appropriate for the ski lodge where we were sitting. His presence was rather unusual, and I sat speechless, observant. His hand was on mine. I knew why he was there ? it was a dream, after all ? but I pretended not to know, or even care. The apology came genuinely and thoughtful; soothing to the palate, it was sweet and softly pleading. I turned my head away and threw a crass reply with practiced lips. Scott wasn?t the type of person to allow his desires to be hindered by my childish resistance, and flinched, continuing unscathed. He wore down my barriers with his acid tenacity, and I pulled away. Melting out of the dream and into my down comforter, I pulled away because it was what I wanted. I refused to let my head convince ? dare I say, outsmart ? my heart into accepting what it wants out of mere desperation. And although I become disheartened in my wait for rescue, I won?t accept anything but the real thing. I won?t delude myself or lower my standards for a watery, fantastic replication of the real thing. I?ll be steadfast. I promise. «
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