obdurate.

She could almost hear her mind pacing within her skull, caged and bothered, and she felt the weight of all the years she had yet to live, bearing down upon her with heavy menace.

Augean

vagaries

vitriolic.

There is so much more potency to be found in detail than in generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.”

pathetism—the idea that chance could be induced by suggestion—which

ebullience

“The beauty and variety of the natural world are merely the visible legacies of endless war.”