Want to know a word assigned to every work shift, with the result that it logs more hours per week than should be permitted by federal law? Iconic. Its chief rival is perhaps ironic. Is there something about the sound these words make that is irresistible to any journalist within halloing-distance of the original meanings? It seems the former has lost its connection to worship and veneration and is now just notable after having exerted itself sufficiently to induce labored breathing. The latter is deployed in any circumstance giving off a whiff of the paradoxical / coincidental / counterintuitive / contradictory. Also, since I'm fault-finding, it apparently is a federal law that any favorable review of a book or movie must be unilluminated by luminous.
Unrelatedly (obviously) (but I'll say so anyway), it's odd that so far as I know none of the women body shamed or otherwise insulted by our president has ever observed that, though supposedly rich, he seems to own just one golf shirt—a white one purchased before he ate his most recent 250 Big Macs. Maybe they're just thankful he never wears shorts.
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