airless
A lack of productivity is suffocating.
bullish
The cashiers summon customers by waving red flags.
complacently
A number of people think that 'natural' automatically means 'desirable' or 'immutable.'
deadwood
Branches snap and fall, no longer able to bear their own weight.
impositions
An inability to handle uncertainty lies at the heart of so much misery and evil.
rack
Can people change in their essentials? It's hard enough to get rid of a single bad habit. What about five or ten of them? What about the dark, habitual thoughts that choke the life out of the mind?
regressed
In the library, two old men fight over a hat. The owner of the hat allegedly took a newspaper away from the other guy, who retaliated by snatching the hat away and refusing to return it. They argue loudly, the hat-owner shrill and indignant, the hat-snatcher muttering filthy insults.
