circuitous; roundabout; indirect
end of life; death; breathing one's last
to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot
construction; building; putting up; erecting; creation; formulation
friendly fire; killing each other by mistake; internecine strife
fine (grain, workmanship, etc.); close (weave); delicate; precise; accurate; careful
leaving everything up to someone else
to compose; to put together
labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble
outsider; layman; amateur
society; the world; the times
erratic; offbeat; wild; unconventional; extraordinary; weird
taste; liking; preference
impossible to understand; impossible to decipher
interests and preferences
rationality; reasonableness
cramp; sprain; unreasonableness; absurdity; illogical; unreasonable
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
without (doing); instead of; if (it) isn't done; if (one) doesn't do ...; if not ...; unless ...
to use as an intermediary; to worry; to mind; to care
isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation
adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing
forever; eternally; for good; as long as one likes; indefinitely; endlessly
eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality
things on hand; things in stock; money on hand; money in one's wallet; on hand; in stock
trying to think of a way (to do); devising means (to do); working out (how to do); contriving (to raise money); managing
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
stopping functioning; being out of service
faltering; tottering; halting; unsteady; awkward; clumsy
chunk; lump; thick slice; cutting into chunks
technical term; terminology; jargon
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
to take possession of (forcibly); to take over (a company, account, etc.); to capture (a castle, enemy position, etc.); to hijack (a plane, ship, etc.)
even so; however; still; whereupon; even though; nevertheless
at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much as possible; as much as one can
whole; entirety; to begin with; in the first place; ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?")
regarding as important; attaching importance to; taking a serious view of; putting emphasis on
timewise; temporal; chronal
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
to take (someone) along; to bring along; to be accompanied by
to shut oneself in (one's house, room, etc.); to confine oneself (to); to barricade oneself (in a building); to entrench oneself; to hole up