“PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.”
Ambrose Bierce
“There is no doubt that it was a providential act.”
Wallace Smith
“DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at "men who live in these degenerate days," which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread --a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved.”
“FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to be famous aspired. Content? Well, his grill has a plating of gold, And his twistings are greatly admired. --Hassan Brubuddy”
“Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender”
Juvenal
“Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.”
William Randolph Hearst
“My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous”
Bible
