<p id="id14741">A bewildering labyrinth of facts</p>
<p id="id14742">A blank absence of interest or sympathy</p>
<p id="id14743">A bloodless diplomatist</p>
<p id="id14744">A breach of confidence</p>
<p id="id14745">A brilliant and paradoxical talker</p>
<p id="id14746">A burning sense of shame and horror</p>
<p id="id14747">A century of disillusionment</p>
<p id="id14748">A certain catholicity of taste [catholicity = universality]</p>
<p id="id14749">A cheap and coarse cynicism</p>
<p id="id14750">A civilizing agency of conspicuous value</p>
<p id="id14751">A cleanness and probity of life [probity = integrity; uprightness]</p>
<p id="id14752">A commendable restraint</p>
<p id="id14753">A condescending and patronizing spirit</p>
<p id="id14754">A confused and troublesome time</p>
<p id="id14755">A conscientious anxiety to do the right thing</p>
<p id="id14756">A conspicuous and crowning service</p>
<p id="id14757">A constant source of surprise and delight</p>
<p id="id14758">A contemptible species of mockery</p>
<p id="id14759">A convenient makeshift</p>
<p id="id14760">A copious torrent of pleasantry</p>
<p id="id14761">A course of arrogant obstinacy</p>
<p id="id14762">A crumb of consolation</p>
<p id="id14763">A crystallized embodiment of the age</p>
<p id="id14764">A cynical and selfish hedonist</p>
<p id="id14765">A dangerous varnish of refinement</p>
<p id="id14766">A dead theological dogma</p>
<p id="id14767">A decorous and well-intentioned person</p>
<p id="id14768">A deep and most impressive solemnity</p>
<p id="id14769">A deep and strange suggestiveness</p>
<p id="id14770">A deep authentic impression of disinterestedness</p>
<p id="id14771">A dereliction of duty</p>
<p id="id14772">A disaster of the first magnitude</p>
<p id="id14773">A distorted and pessimistic view of life</p>
<p id="id14774">A dogmatic and self-righteous spirit</p>
<p id="id14775">A duel of brains</p>
<p id="id14776">A dull collocation of words</p>
<p id="id14777">A fastidious sense of fitness</p>
<p id="id14778">A fatal moral hollowness</p>
<p id="id14779">A feeling of lofty remoteness</p>
<p id="id14780">A feminine excess of inconsequence</p>
<p id="id14781">A final and irrevocable settlement</p>
<p id="id14782">A firmness tempered by the most scrupulous courtesy</p>
<p id="id14783">A fitting interval for penitence</p>
<p id="id14784">A flippant rejoinder</p>
<p id="id14785">A flood of external impressions</p>
<p id="id14786">A flourish of rhetoric</p>
<p id="id14787">A fund of curious information</p>
<p id="id14788">A furtive groping after knowledge</p>
<p id="id14789">A gambler's desperate chance</p>
<p id="id14790">A ghastly mixture of defiance and conceit</p>
<p id="id14791">A glaring example of rapacity [rapacity = plundering]</p>
<p id="id14792">A graceful nonentity</p>
<p id="id14793">A great and many-sided personality</p>
<p id="id14794">A great capacity for generous indignation</p>
<p id="id14795">A great source of confusion</p>
<p id="id14796">A gross piece of stupidity</p>
<p id="id14797">A habit of riding a theory too hard</p>
<p id="id14798">A habit of rigorous definition</p>
<p id="id14799">A happy and compensating experience</p>
<p id="id14800">A haughty self-assertion of equality</p>
<p id="id14801">A hideous absurdity</p>
<p id="id14802">A hideous orgy of massacre and outrage</p>
<p id="id14803">A high pitch of eloquence</p>
<p id="id14804">A homelike and festive aspect</p>
<p id="id14805">A hopeless enigma</p>
<p id="id14806">A hotbed of disturbance</p>
<p id="id14807" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%">A hushed rustle of applause testified to a widespread approbation
[approbation = warm approval; praise]</p>
<p id="id14808">A keenly receptive and intensely sensitive temperament</p>
<p id="id14809">A kind of fantastic patchwork</p>
<p id="id14810">A kind of surly reluctance</p>
<p id="id14811">A laudable stimulus</p>
<p id="id14812">A law of retributive justice</p>
<p id="id14813">A less revolutionary innovation</p>
<p id="id14814">A life of studious contemplation</p>
<p id="id14815" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%">A limpidity and lucidity of style
[limpidity = transparent clearity; easily intelligible]</p>
<p id="id14816">A lingering tinge of admiration</p>
<p id="id14817">A lively sense of what is dishonorable</p>
<p id="id14818">A long accumulating store of discontent and unrest</p>
<p id="id14819">A long tangle of unavoidable detail</p>
<p id="id14820" style="margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 0%">A look threatening and peremptory
[peremptory = ending all debate or action]</p>
<p id="id14821">A many-sided and far-reaching enthusiasm</p>
<p id="id14822">A marvelous sharpener of the faculties</p>
<p id="id14823">A melancholy preponderance of mischief</p>
<p id="id14824">A memory-haunting phrase</p>
<p id="id14825">A mercenary marriage</p>
<p id="id14826">A mere conjectural estimate</p>
<p id="id14827">A microscopic care in the search of words</p>
<p id="id14828">A misconception which is singularly prevalent</p>
<p id="id14829">A mixture of malignancy and madness</p>
<p id="id14830">A modicum of truth</p>
<p id="id14831">A monstrous travesty</p>
<p id="id14832">A mood of hard skepticism</p>
<p id="id14833">A more than ordinary share of baseness and depravity</p>
<p id="id14834">A most laudable zeal</p>
<p id="id14835">A most repulsive and incomprehensible idiom</p>
<p id="id14836">A most unseasonable piece of impertinence</p>
<p id="id14837">A multitude of groundless alarms</p>
<p id="id14838">A murderous tenacity about trifles</p>
<p id="id14839">A mysterious and an intractable pestilence</p>
<p id="id14840">A mysterious and inscrutable power</p>
<p id="id14841">A narrow and superficial survey</p>
<p id="id14842">A nature somewhat frivolous and irresolute</p>
<p id="id14843">A needlessly offensive manner</p>
<p id="id14844">A nimble interchange of uninteresting gossip</p>
<p id="id14845">A noble and puissant nation [puissant = with power, might]</p>
<p id="id14846">A novel and perplexing course</p>
<p id="id14847">A numerous company</p>
<p id="id14848">A painful and disconcerting deformity</p>
<p id="id14849">A partial disenchantment</p>
<p id="id14850">A passage of extraordinary daring</p>
<p id="id14851">A patchwork of compromises</p>
<p id="id14852">A permanent and habitual state of mind</p>
<p id="id14853">A pernicious and growing tendency</p>
<p id="id14854">A perversion of judgment</p>
<p id="id14855">A phantom of the brain</p>
<p id="id14856">A piece of grotesque stupidity</p>
<p id="id14857">A pleasant flow of appropriate language</p>
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