Kieran's Cuticles and Festinate Ways

Kieran was not one to make festinate decisions. With the thumbnail of his left hand, he'd push back the cuticles of the opposite fingers and then groom his left hand in the same fashion, all the while  furrowing his brow as he fretted when and how to explain the vicissitudes of life to Seamus.

Wordsmith.org: Monish

My achy-breaky lower body—the squeaky knees and give-up groin—monish me to rest, but I disobey; Christopher Cross ("Say You'll  Be Mine"), Great Big Sea ("Can't Stop Falling") and Madonna ("Respect Yourself")—my iPod disciplinarians—order me to keep dancing, sweating, living.

Oxford English Dictionary: Moonball

Uncle Danny knew I wasn't the next John McEnroe, so he let me have fun launching erratic serves and lobbing wild moonballs.