Sublime

A biographer of the novelist E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.” Imagine how good it would be to be that guy.

God is often referred to as “the God of the womb and the God of the tomb”—He’s the giver and taker of life.

He’s a study in contrasts, a rare person who sees little conflict in owning many identities at once.

tenuously

acerbically

inures

duplicitous