After the wreck, we survived off the dead with an eye towards the weakest of the survivors.

Dave made a concerted effort to dumb himself down hoping to connect with the current zeitgeist.

Priscilla couldn't relate to people who thought of food only as a means to an end rather than a wonderful journey to be taken three times a day.

We hated complicated issues and so we raised up a simple man with simple ideas and complicated the issues further.

Your dreams are my nightmares.

I passed her on the street that morning not knowing that soon she would alter my life in ways that I wouldn't understand for years to come.

Thanksgiving dinner devolved into a drunken fisticuffs between Bill's flag-waving father and his hippie uncle who had recently given up his pacifist stance.