OK. Michael posted the nine runner-up Words of the Year from Merriam-Webster, and I asked him if he could use them all in a sentence.
The words are
complicit, recuse, empathy, dotard, syzygy, gyro, federalism, hurricane, and gaffe.
Of course he did, here.
So then I had to. I didn't know what syzygy meant, and I also looked up recuse and federalism, never having used them in a sentence! I also added some substantive words, because otherwise, really, I couldn't make those words do anything much fun.
I imagine my sentence illustrated by Jules Feiffer's dancer. Here it is:
I'm sure Feiffer's dancer would be up to it.
Here she is after the US "won" the first Gulf War in 1991... twenty-six years ago, and counting.
If you'd like to play, please do! Email me your sentence or leave it in the comments, or if you're a blogger, I can link to your sentence on your blog.
The words are
complicit, recuse, empathy, dotard, syzygy, gyro, federalism, hurricane, and gaffe.
Of course he did, here.
So then I had to. I didn't know what syzygy meant, and I also looked up recuse and federalism, never having used them in a sentence! I also added some substantive words, because otherwise, really, I couldn't make those words do anything much fun.
I imagine my sentence illustrated by Jules Feiffer's dancer. Here it is:
The modern dancer spun in syzygy with a gyro on a spit, presenting without a gaffe a hurricane of moves meant to represent an empathetic federalism, while the judge was recused as a dotard, complicit in seeking to block the inclusion of "foreign" meats in dance.
Here she is after the US "won" the first Gulf War in 1991... twenty-six years ago, and counting.
If you'd like to play, please do! Email me your sentence or leave it in the comments, or if you're a blogger, I can link to your sentence on your blog.
4 comments:
A real challenge!
Good to see Feiffer's drawing again..I remember them,possibly from the Guardian newspaper
It was a challenge!
The dancer, she is genius, eh?
I remember her from childhood, when I'd read my the cartoons in my parents' New Yorker.
Great sentence....I don’t think I could come up with one that actually has so much meaning.
just looked up Feiffer in Wikipedia...not only 88 not out,but still working!
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