Marketable

Marketable

Today's word now resides in the brisk little world of resumes; sales pitches; college brochures, and irritating influencers, invading our doomscrolling.

Unmitigated

There are some things in life improved by moderation. Sun-bathing, for example. Political and religious certainty - ideally. And of course the use of jalapenos in the omelettes I make for my father on Sunday mornings...

Glow

What do a cross-dressing comedy set deep in the forest of Arden, and the wondrous and slightly alarming existence of bioluminescent creatures have in common?

Fortune Teller

What do an ocularly challenged oracle in a tale of catastrophic paternal prophecy and Uncle William's deliriously disoriented double-trouble farce of mistaken identity have in common?

Vaulting

There are some actions that begin with control, and end somewhere else entirely. A careful step becomes a leap. A leveraged plan becomes a lunge into action — or a Bolestra for all you fencing fans. A perfectly reasonable and grounded intention suddenly finds itself airborne with no clear idea of where it plans to land. That moment when something - an idea, an impulse, an ambition - overshoots its mark and carries us along with it.