Words From Novels or Stories - Dec 2018

Jane's mother's voice had a becalming effect on my baby, even though she had never seen her before.

The coffee I made this morning was brackish, I think I the milk was foul.

The soup my wife made was brackish, even though she did not add much salt. The saltiness must have came from the new boxed broth she used.

I will never capitulate to the demands of the unreasonable.

He was not prone to caprice. He was taciturn and circumspect.

The capricious boss demands results but can never make up his mind on which tactic his employees should use.

He is a circumspect leader, never prone to caprice behaviors. In other words, he is not capricious at all.

Sherman Alexie and Lorrie Moore are contemporary authors.

We decamped from the party as soon as we heard the police sirens in the distance.

The dollar had a diminution on the world stage after the euro was introduced, but ultimately it regained its strength.

He was dubious man and never made a decision without being thoroughly circumspect.

The critics lavished the author with effusive praise.

I love how Mary greets you, she is so effusive!

The poem was an elegy to his mother, he said it with such an elegiac manner, the pain he was feeling was palpable.

Car salesmen are typically importunate, but John Rey was taciturn, perhaps he was not cutout for the job.

He had such a languor today I couldn't even get him give me a kiss.

After last night you can't blame him for being languorous, he didn't get home until 4am.

Notice languorous - spelled with languor, not langor

The dog and the little girl loped along with the mom as she led them quickly through the park.

You should always strive to be magnanimous. Though it is difficult to be giving 100% of the time, simply striving to be magnanimous as much as possible is a smart way to be.

He was a magniloquent spoony.  (Meaning, he talked about love in an elevated way that made him come off as overly sentimental. - from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'Less')

Aunt Danielle was so magnanimous, she was meritorious.  (Meaning, she was so giving and generous that she deserved praise.)

Donald Trump was obsequious to Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki summit. It was a sure sign he is in the pocket of the Russian leader.

The waiter was obsequious to the customers.

I was going to ask Tom for some of chips, but he had such a paucity I didn't even bother.

He didn't even live in the city, yet he was still a peripatetic. He didn't own a car or a bike!

Brain Bank suggests to remember quotes by rote.

She was a sinuous girl and she drove down a sinuous road.

San Francisco is known for their sinuous roads.

He was such a spoony as a teenager, he fell in love with every girl he dated and made absurdly romantic gestures that I imagine he regrets today.