While language sticklers (also known as “grammar Nazis”) are little more than annoyances, people who speak as if they've been chewing on a thesaurus all day are cringe-inducing – to the max. It reeks of trying too hard, and you will be mocked if you do this.Strip away the snobbery and it’s glaringly obvious how mundane the thought actually is: “People are too superficial nowadays.”
Eat a Vegan today
“If you took an x-ray of your weiner would you see a bone?”-Beavis
“That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.” ― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
“All of them, you see, misfits, all good for nothing, cowards, baboons, meek wolves, parasites, every man jack of them, people afraid to face their own responsibilities, fight their own fight, ready to go anywhere, as Tolstoy well perceived—” ― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
“Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.”----W. H. Auden
It seems that the day when the Earth decided to create this landscape, it was celebrating a party. Or perhaps the person in charge of designing the simple slopes of a remote region, to the north of what would be China, had planned to amaze visitors with something exceptional. In any case, it joined together all the rock layers of colors imaginable in one place, specifically in the area known as Zhangye Danxia, thus achieving what is perhaps the greatest gathering of different pigments in natural stone in the world:
“For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved
from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.” ― Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb