Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Week in Seven Words #61

cinematic
I'm loaded down with work. In response, I start considering all the movies I'd like to watch.

disdainful
The weather is a slap to our face, spring giving us a cold shoulder.

ether
What happens to the emails I send that don't arrive? I see them dissolving at high speed, the words turning into a sparkling dust.

grungy
It's possible for the brain to feel grungy, like it's been sitting in a bucket of mop water.

imprisoned
Peeping out from the tortured syntax and the litter of logical fallacies is a glimmer of truth.

mollify
I don't know what it is about a spoonful of whole milk vanilla yogurt - a bit of peace and calm in every corner of your mouth.

protoplasm
The sentences look as if they're trying to cohere into paragraphs but can't. They're too spattered. Sort of like a jellyfish trying to walk on land, it won't happen. There's a ways to go yet, in their evolution as solid structured papers.