Sublime

It personalized death, the faculty said, it restored dignity to the undignified process of dying.

echt

she were cautious in her life, she could avoid compromising in her work.

like her child in a playpen in a distant part of the house, occupying her heart but not threatening to interrupt her dinner party,

blasé

Under each of those dresses you find so bewitching, a body is locked away in quarantine.

Survival might be insufficient, she’d told Dieter in late-night arguments, but on the other hand, so was Shakespeare.