A renewed sensitivity

Poetry does wonders for one's appreciation of a word, a phrase, a sentence.

I just went through an edition of the Economist and was compelled to put these down:

Insouciance

Trenchant

Greenmail

Amateurish theology stokes religious extremism

"The only security of all is a free press," Thomas Jefferson wrote to Lafayette in 1823. "The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary - to keep the waters pure."