You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know.

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

We are all environmentalists now, but we are not all planetists. An environmentalist realizes that nature has its pleasures and deserves respect. A planetist puts the earth ahead of the earthlings.