Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser (read the beginning after the end novel .txt) π
We should not, however, study "sparkling words and sonorous phrases" with the object of introducing them consciously into our speech. To do so would inevitably lead to stiltedness and superficiality. Words and phrases should be studied as symbols of ideas, and as we become thoroughly familiar with them they will play an unconscious but effective part in our daily expression.
We acquire our vocabulary largely from our reading and our personal associates. The words we use are an unmistakable indication of our thought habits, tastes, ideals, and interests in life. In like manner, the habitual language of a people is a barometer of their intellectual, civil, moral, and spiritual ideals
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A kind of fantastic patchwork
A kind of surly reluctance
A laudable stimulus
A law of retributive justice
A less revolutionary innovation
A life of studious contemplation
A limpidity and lucidity of style [limpidity = transparent clearity; easily intelligible]
A lingering tinge of admiration
A lively sense of what is dishonorable
A long accumulating store of discontent and unrest
A long tangle of unavoidable detail
A look threatening and peremptory [peremptory = ending all debate or action]
A many-sided and far-reaching enthusiasm
A marvelous sharpener of the faculties
A melancholy preponderance of mischief
A memory-haunting phrase
A mercenary marriage
A mere conjectural estimate
A microscopic care in the search of words
A misconception which is singularly prevalent
A mixture of malignancy and madness
A modicum of truth
A monstrous travesty
A mood of hard skepticism
A more than ordinary share of baseness and depravity
A most laudable zeal
A most repulsive and incomprehensible idiom
A most unseasonable piece of impertinence
A multitude of groundless alarms
A murderous tenacity about trifles
A mysterious and an intractable pestilence
A mysterious and inscrutable power
A narrow and superficial survey
A nature somewhat frivolous and irresolute
A needlessly offensive manner
A nimble interchange of uninteresting gossip
A noble and puissant nation [puissant = with power, might]
A novel and perplexing course
A numerous company
A painful and disconcerting deformity
A partial disenchantment
A passage of extraordinary daring
A patchwork of compromises
A permanent and habitual state of mind
A pernicious and growing tendency
A perversion of judgment
A phantom of the brain
A piece of grotesque stupidity
A pleasant flow of appropriate language
A pompous failure
A potential menace to life
A powerful and persuasive orator
A prevalent characteristic of her nature
A prey to the tongue of the public
A pristine vigor of style
A profusion of compliments
A proposition inherently vicious
A puerile illusion [puerile = immature; childish]
A quenchless thirst for expression
A rage akin to frenzy
A rare precision of insight
A rather desperate procedure
A reckless fashion
A recrudescence of superstition
[recrudescence = recurrence of a pathological
symptoms after a period of improvement]
A relish for the sublime
A reversion to the boldest paganism
A rigid avoidance of extravagance and excess
A ripple of applause
A restraining and conservative force
A robust and consistent application
A sacred and indissoluble union
A sane philosophy of life
A secluded dreamer of dreams
A secret and wistful charm
A sense of deepening discouragement
A sense of indescribable reverence
A series of brief and irritating hopes
A settled conviction of success
A sharp difference of opinion
A sharp pang of regretful surprise
A shrewd eye to the main chance
A signal deed of justice
A skeptical suspension of judgment
A slight and superficial tribute
A slowly subsiding frenzy
A snare and a delusion
A somewhat complicated and abstruse calculation [abstruse = difficult to understand]
A sordid and detestable motive
A sort of incredulous stupefaction
A source of unfailing delight and wonder
A species of moral usurpation
A spirit inimical to learning
A spirit of complacent pessimism
A startling and unfortunate digression
A state of scarcely veiled insurrection
A state of urgent necessity
A stern decree of fate
A stern foe of snobbishness
A storm of public indignation
A strange mixture of carelessness, generosity, and caprice
A strangely perverse and poverty stricken imagination
A strong assumption of superiority
A subjugated and sullen population
A sudden revulsion
A supposed ground of affinity
A synonym for retrogression
A taunting accusation of falsehood
A tedious and needless drudgery
A temper which brooked no resistance
A temporary expedient
A tender tone of remonstrance
A theme of endless meditation
A thing of moods and moments
A thoroughly sincere and unaffected effort
A thousand mangled delusions
A tissue of dull excuses
A tone of exaggerated solicitude
A touch of exquisite pathos
A trace of obvious sarcasm
A transcript of the common conscience
A trifle prim and puritanic
A truth begirt with fire
A unique and overwhelming charm
A vague aversion
A variety of conflicting and profound emotions
A variety of enfeebling amendments
A vast multitude of facts
A vastly extended vision of opportunity
A vehement and direct attack
A very elusive and delicate thought
A very formidable problem
A vigilant reserve
A violent and base calumniator [calumniator = makes malicious or knowingly false statements]
A voice of matchless compass and eloquence
A warmth of seemingly generous indignations
A wealth of resource that seemed inexhaustible
A welcome release from besetting difficulties
A whole catalog of disastrous blunders
A whole whirlpool of various emotions
Abounding bodily vigor
Above and beyond and before all else
Absurd and inconsequential career
Abundant and congenial employment
Accidental rather than intentional
Accustomed to ascribe to chance
Acquired sentiments of propriety
Activities of the discursive intellect
Actuated by an unduly anxious desire
Acute sensibility coupled with quickness of intellect
Adhere too tenaciously to forms and modes
Admirable mastery of technique
Admit the soft impeachment
Admitted with a childlike cheerfulness
Advance by leaps and bounds
Advancing to dignity and honor
Adventitious aids to memory [adventitious = Not inherent; added extrinsically]
Affectation and superfluous ornament
Aggravated to an unspeakable degree
Agitated and perplexed by a dozen cross-currents of conflicting tendency
Agreeable and humanizing intercourse
Aided by strong mental endowments
Airy swiftness of treatment
Alien to the purpose
All sorts of petty tyrannies
All the resources of a burnished rhetoric
Allied by taste and circumstances
Allied with a marked imperiousness [imperious = arrogantly overbearing]
Almost incredible obtuseness
Altogether monstrous and unnatural
Always observant and discriminating
Amaze and confound the imagination
Amiable and indulgent hostess
Amid many and pressing avocations
Amid the homeliest details of daily life
Amid the rush and roar of life
Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts
An abandoned and exaggerated grief
An accidental encounter
An act of folly amounting to wickedness
An afternoon of painfully constrained behavior
An agreeable image of serene dignity
An air of artificial constraint
An air of round-eyed profundity
An alarmed sense of strange responsibilities
An almost excessive exactness
An almost sepulchral regularity and seclusion
An ample and imposing structure
An apostle of unworldly ardor
An appreciable menace
An ardent and gifted youth
An arid dictum
An artful and malignant enemy
An assumption entirely gratuitous
An assumption which proved erroneous
An atmosphere of sunny gaiety
An attitude of passive impartiality
An authoritative and conclusive inquiry
An egregious assumption [egregious = outrageously reprehensible]
An elaborate assumption of indifference
An endless field for discussion
An enervating and emasculating form of indulgence
An ennobling and invigorating influence
An entirely negligible quantity
An essentially grotesque and commonplace thing
An eternal and imperishable example
An exalted and chimerical sense of honor [chimerical = highly improbable]
An excess of unadulterated praise
An excessive refinement of feeling
An expression at once confident and appealing
An extensive and populous country
An habitual steadiness and coolness of reflection
An honest and unquestioning pride
An icy indifference
An idle and unworthy action
An ill-assorted vocabulary
An immeasurable advantage
An imminent and overmastering peril
An imperturbable demeanor and steadiness of mind
An implacable foe
An inborn and irresistible impulse
An incongruous spectacle
An incredible mental agility
An indefinable taint of priggishness [priggishness = exaggerated propriety]
An indescribable frankness and simplicity of character
An indolent surrender to mere sensuous experience
An indomitable and unselfish soul
An ineradicable love of fun and mystification
An inevitable factor of human conduct
An inexhaustible copiousness and readiness of speech
An insatiable appetite for trifles
An insatiable voracity
An inscrutable mystery
An intentional breach of politeness
An interchange of civilities
An intolerable deal of guesswork
An involuntary gesture of remonstrance
An irrelevant bit of magniloquence [magniloquence = extravagant in speech]
An irrepressible and impassioned hopefulness
An irritating and dangerous treatment
An itching propensity for argument
An object of indestructible interest
An obnoxious member of society
An ominous lull and silence
An open and violent rupture
An outburst of impassioned eloquence
An unaccountable feeling of antipathy
An unbecoming vehemence
An undisciplined state of feeling
An unerring sense of humor
An unparalleled and almost miraculous growth
An unparalleled atrocity
An unpatriotic and ignoble act
An unreasoning form of coercion
An utterly vile and detestable spirit
And now I address myself to my task
And the like
Announced in a tone of pious satisfaction
Another thought importuned him [importuned = insistent or repeated requests]
Anticipated with lively expectation
Apparent rather than real
Appeal to a tardy justice
Appreciably above the level of mediocrity
Arbitrary assumption of power
Ardently and enthusiastically convinced
Argued with immense force and feeling
Arrayed with scrupulous neatness
Arrogance and untutored haughtiness
As an impartial bystander
As belated as they are fallacious
As by a secret of freemasonry
As odious as it is absurd
As ridiculous as it was unnecessary
As we scan the vague unknown
Assailed by poignant doubts
Assume a menacing attitude
Assumed almost heroic proportions
At once epigrammatic and arresting [epigrammatic = terse and witty]
At once misleading and infelicitous
At the mercy of small prejudices
Attained by rigorous self-restraint
Attended by insuperable difficulties
Averted by some happy stroke of fortune
Await the sentence of impartial posterity
Awaited with feverish anxiety
BBandied to and fro
Based on a fundamental error
Beguile the tedium of the journey
Bemoaning and bewailing his sad fortune
Beset with external dangers
Betrayed into deplorable error
Bewildering multiplication of details
Beyond the dreams of avarice
Blended with courage and devotion
Blind leaders of the blind
Blunt the finer sensibilities
Blustering desire for publicity
Bound up with impossibilities and absurdities
Breathed an almost exaggerated humility
Bred in the tepid reticence of propriety
Brief ventures of kindliness
Brilliant display of ingenious argument
Bring odium upon the individual
Brisk directness of speech
Brutal recognition of failure
Bursts of unpremeditated frankness
But delusions and phantasmagoria
But that is beside the mark
But this is a digression
By a curious perversity of fate
By a happy turn of thinking
By a whimsical diversion
By common consent
By means of crafty insinuations
By no means inconsolable
By temperament incompatible
By the common judgment of the thinking world
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