tangible...notions of certain direction nestle in a rose petal of affection... hard, in inflexible stiff lines of reason... all bound, shrewd with self-defence... shot thru with poison...noxious resentments, rife with maleviolence...smashing the possible, trampling on innocence...to strangle, scratch, suffocate, strain; disconnect...poignant; to anticipate bursting of strained floodgates...