Sublime

‘And what about you, Cinderella?’ he said.

He is more than clever, he is amusing. He is more than successful, he is alive. You will find him stranded here and there in all sorts of unknown positions, almost always in unsuccessful positions.

turbid

So long as you progress fast enough it seems a matter of indifference to him whether you are progressing to the stars or the devil.

Alice was clever, but she had the kind of cleverness that verged on the unkind,

ruth

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that. —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass