“Shedemei had long since grown out of her adolescent jealousy of pulchritudinous girls.”

“One suspects that the most pertinent term in that slam was neither pulchritudinous nor pentecostalism, but pinnacle.”

“If you tell a woman she is pulchritudinous, she may be bewildered, especially if she does not know her Latin, but if you tell her she is pretty she probably will thank you.”