Think of just one human being's nimiety... inhaling/exhaling/consuming/excreting/consuming and building, building, building... It skews and distorts proportion until typical excess seems like subtlety, and the most gross displays of waste start looking like acts of responsibility.
...Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Had she the prescience, would she have avoided this path? Or was it that she had disregarded the gift of her better judgment, following the path regardless - like you might follow a tempting smell into a dark alley, or stay at a summer-afternoon patio party on a weekday? Sighing to admit the latter- In the end, prescience keeps company with the empty afterwards...and who wants to hang with that crowd?
Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of dreams; dreamy.
Days and times spent with other people seemed increasingly oneiric; it was the long airless time that she could steal away from the business of being that carried the weight of reality. And daytime dreams seemed increasingly the province of a youth she no longer claimed. Was it time to wake up?
1. Producing or contributing to a beneficial effect; beneficial; advantageous. 2. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health.
Nothing was more important than escaping the salutary air, which burned his lungs and accelerated his heart. And nothing confirmed more that he lived as an undeveloped negative of a person, polar to the natural workings of the world.
...The state of being bright and radiant; splendor; brilliance.
The obfuscating effects of loneliness were all the more noticeable to those who had experienced her prior effulgence.
The dripping spring blossoms were effulgent in late light. The sun tore at the edges of the foggy day, as though it too had lately taken, and lately escaped, a desk job.