11 June 2015

• Effulgent: Shining forth brilliantly; radiant. 
• It was an effulgent and thriving concern that Maddox bequeathed to his successor. (Walter Gratzer) 
• Stasis: A state or condition in which there is no action or progress; static situation.
• Under the stewardship L.J.F. (Jack to his inmates) Brimble a certain stasis has set in. (Walter Gratzer)
• Pedestrian: Lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, etc.; commonplace; prosaic; dull. 
• True, there had been some notable (always very brief) communications, most memorably perhaps that by Watson and Crick on the structure of DNA but most contributions were pedestrian.  (Walter Gratzer) 
• Fustian: Pompous or pretentious speech or writing
• Maddox lost no time in tearing down the journal's fustian image. (Walter Gratzer)