magnifico
The sagacious magnifico delivered his speech solus, extolling the features of an identity matrix, the feeling of his old skewbald leporine coat, the enfleurage involving marcescent and orbicular blooms, bathymetry in exurbs, and rotund tambourins.
- sagacious: Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness. See synonyms at shrewd.
- magnifico: 1. A person of distinguished rank, importance, or appearance: “He is both an old-world and a new-world figure, a feudal magnifico and a modern technocrat” (Observer). 2. A nobleman of the Venetian Republic.
- solus: adj & adv By oneself; alone. Used as a stage direction to a male character.
- identity matrix: A square matrix with 1's along the diagonal from upper left to lower right and 0's in all other positions.
- skewbald: adj. Having spots or patches of white on a coat of a color other than black: a skewbald horse. |n. A skewbald animal, especially a horse.
- leporine: Of or characteristic of rabbits or hares.
- enfleurage: A process in making perfume in which odorless fats or oils absorb the fragrance of fresh flowers.
- marcescent: Withering but not falling off, as a blossom that persists on a twig after flowering.
- orbicular: 1. Circular or spherical. 2. Botany Circular and flat. Used especially of leaves.
- bathymetry: The measurement of the depth of bodies of water.
- exurb: A region lying beyond the suburbs of a city, especially one inhabited principally by wealthy people.
- rotund: 1. Rounded in figure; plump. See synonyms at fat. 2. Having a full, rich sound; sonorous.
- tambourin: 1a. A long, narrow, two-headed drum used in Provence. b. One who plays this drum. 2. A style of dance in lively two-beat rhythm, accompanied by this drum.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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