Sublime

The sermon of the panorama was that even a man without a friend in the Universe could still find his home planet mysteriously, heartbreakingly beautiful.

Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan: A Novel

utilitarian

Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

malaprop.

Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

He’d come to consider himself a connoisseur of the grotesque,

Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up

"Saga,"

Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation

ascetic.

Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)

bluff

Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel

He worried that language had come to the Earth and invented people in order to perpetuate itself.

Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up

We are all doomed to commit acts of cruelty or violence or evil; that is our destiny, due to ancient factors. Our karma.