Monday, January 9, 2012

January 9 Words of the Day

Atavistic
   Although he didn't want to kill, his atavistic instinct kicked in as his attacker raised the knife. - A. Goelz
   The husband's atavisitc, feral brutality kicked in when his mate was threatened by an intruder. - L. Wolfson
   His atavistic eating style drove the young ladies away, angering his hopeless friends. - Jack P-W
   The mother had an atavistic urge to protect her son from the charging rhino. - N. Robinson

Hubris
   Many people have enough hubris to think they are more powerful than the inexorable power of nature. - E. Comstock
   Humans act with hubris when they dismiss earlier humans as being merely atavistic.- Z. Sonett
   Acting with hubris, he strode up to the Parthenon and signalled for the wrecking ball to strike.l - M. Hausamann
   He showed hubris when he said he was better than Poseidon. - G. Derr

Inexorable
    Manifest Destiny was inexorable; train tracks snaked through the Great Plains and towns sprouted out almost everywhere. - R. Meagher
   Macbeth was an inexorable force in his fight for the crown. - Vangelder and Carlson
   The avalanche pounded inexorably down the mountain.- G. Wright
   The inexorable masses of homework keep me awake all night. - Liv Salinger

Ethereal
   When she played piano, she would play like an ethereal angel. - J. Sagebiel
    I have an atavistic urge to howl at the ethereal moon. - S. Yarker
    Riley Venne frolicked in the meadows with his ethereal fairy friends. - C. Yamane
   The stars glinted ethereally in the night sky. - M. Smith
   The light reflecting from the crystal into the glass room was ethereal. - S. Cooney

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