Word: meanderingly
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...author has been accused of many things, though never of wearying his readers. Some, however, may be dissatisfied with the loose connections between Teenager's story and that of Maximo and Nicki. Both story lines meander and end abruptly as if Breslin had run out of anecdotes. But he is a brilliant descriptive journalist and compensates on nearly every page with energetic, often humorous scenes...
...stories. Moorish in their conspicuous lack of breathing things, these works give the feeling that their "characters" are really the pointed little white spots that move in geometrically predestined directions across an oversized etch-a-sketch board. The spots, typically upper middle class suburban or uptown New York spots, meander, speedup and decelerate as they course ineluctably through the turns Ultimately, the design ties itself off with a sudden bizarre crook--a child gets shredded by a ski lift, a husband is shot by his wife in a race around the living room or a fatal car crash occurs. Sometimes...
...decide exactly the opposite: if the world is breaking apart they're going to get theirs while the getting is good. Maybe there are more people who will fall into the first group, and maybe not. But finding out is worth the chance--if in blissful ignorance we just meander along. We meander along a precipice...
...words meander the way people think; Engel does not edit Fish's mind too closely, so the prose is often demanding. Consider the following passage, Fish's reflections after he has described the various "zones" that make up Harvard Square: "I pause hard at the corner then, considering whether to cross over or turn back, aware already even here in the borderland between the two zones of a taint in the air of unclear appetite, of relentless and unfocused inclination to consumption...
...phrase's greatest usefulness was probably in completing the title of his book How to Expand Your Social Intelligence Quotient. Urged Archer: "We must unshackle ourselves from the tendency to ignore silent behavior and to prefer words over everything else." The evidence all over is that while people meander the earth through thickets of verbiage (theirs and others), many, perhaps most, do pay more attention to wordless signals and are more likely to be influenced and governed by nonverbal messages...