An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

You gave me a significant look, but significant of what?

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

Victimization has its privileges, and I want some.

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.