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I am pretty unextraordinary.
Impertinent is a word which actually means not suitable to the circumstances, but most people use it to mean I am using a complicated word in hopes that it will make you stop talking ...
Nonrefundable. It was a good, solid word, one you couldn't chew, one that only dissolved after sucking slowly.
Eschew all those beastly adjectives ...
Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
The visible becomes inevitable...
ABDITIVE (A'BDITIVE) adj.[from abdo, to hide.] That which has the power or quality of hiding.Dict.
Use the smallest word that does the job.
The beautiful must be incongruous.
is a small word with a big reach. There
A streak of presence surrounded by a dim glow of absence.
Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.
I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.
You're contumacious.
There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.
So often we measure
by what is false.
We should measure
by what is barely legible
barely in our dailiness.
It is the invisible that doesn't lie
the invisible through which
we see ourselves finally
on a back street in the world.
Just a dark shape against an even darker background.
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.
I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent. And I can't be controlled.
Beyond the visible is invisible.
You're incorrigible," she said. Gathering up his socks and shoes. he crawled into the driver's seat and said, "No, I'm recidivous." Katie blinked at him. "What does that mean?" Giving her a smacking kiss, he said, "Incorrigible."
-Katie & Chase
somethingological
Battle against obscurity
shape about the size of a large dog hovering a few yards over his head.
The door opens and my new neighbor is a vampire. He's nearly a foot taller than me. Unruly ink-black hair, and a face made of knife angles. If I were obnoxious, I might use the term shockingly attractive . Or terrifyingly handsome . Holy mother of balls would also be an option.
...radiating honest ignorance
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
both touching and somehow repulsive.
A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows
Absence, the highest form of presence.
Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.
I have often been accused of being obtuse, however one must dig well below the top-soil to get my drift".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.
Eliminate the superfluous.
I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.
Unremarkable, but with a brainy arrogance wafting from them.
I've got an adjective that just fits you.
uncomplicated things
I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen nor made visible.
Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.
Use the right word, not its second cousin.
Obscurity is the realm of error.
In the immortal words of Mr. Burns ... eeeeexcellent.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
Unambiguous is nonexistent.
Flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste.
We hear inconceivable, but cannot see the intangible.
Enormous? Did you just call me fat?
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.
A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.
What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big.
This is the antonym of excellent.
view. Absentmindedly
Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.
The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.
Indelible, adj.
That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.
properispomenon.
being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attention of those students of human nature who omit no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope.
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.
Psychologists call this cognitive impenetrability: our conscious understanding of the situation is unable to penetrate a compelling perception generated by relatively inflexible mechanisms that interpret visual contours, surfaces, and shapes.
Arrogant. Conceited. Egomaniac!
Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.
Appropriate is boring
Don't repeat this word again
Immeasurable space.
Closeness.
The shortest distance between two women.
Solid and dense as his own, a nose ring and angelbites.
Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.
Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.
It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.
idiosyncrasy than
I want a brighter word than bright
Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.
Ordinary raised to extraordinary.
What's out of sight, is out of mind
I just wish insignificance had more stature.
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.
Disproportionate.
Verbose; a word known only by those who are.
Pulchritude
beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.
a deep smothering emptiness
Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.
Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
An epic simplicity
I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
It stands on a slight eminence
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.
Egregious.
most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd."
imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.
Modesty is Invisibility
Obscurity is the kingdom of error.
Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.
I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then the child blows the bubble up very softly, until he is afraid that it will burst.
What looked empty was full, much like water in a cup. What was most important was invisible to the eye. THE