Choose and Change (New Game)

[papermoon.lady]

Let's try this new game... 🙂

You have a word and have to write a sentence with an antonym of this word (it must not be a perfect antonym/opposite). The sentence must contain at least three other words (not including articles, pronouns etc.)

The next poster then chooses a word from the sentence of the previous poster (not the antonym, any other word) and builds a new sentence with the antonym of the word he or she has chosen.

For example:

START - She finished her delicious meal in no time.

The antonym of "start" is "finish/finished", so the next poster has to choose between "delicious", "meal" and "time" (the antonym can't be used) and has to write a sentence with the antonym of the chosen word and with at least three other nouns.

Let's get started... 🙂

[veiled-lady]

MONEY - He chose to barter for all things needed in his daily life.

[countessalmirena]

DAILY - The tonsured monk looked crossly at his ravaged beds of medicinal herbs and flowers, and shook his tightly clenched fist at the heavens, shouting, "Lord God, why am I so beset as to find these tenderly grown annual flowers and my precious herbs trodden on, wrenched out, and - if I am not mistaken - relentlessly piddled upon some wretched and sinful miscreants whose urine is more plentiful than their common sense, respect for their elders, and plain simple godliness?"

[papermoon.lady]

SINFUL - She reached the top of the mountain breathless, but the view at the top was so phenomenal, and the air so pure, that she soon forgot all her troubles.

[countessalmirena]

PHENOMENAL - The apple-cheeked woman with wispy hair waved a bejewelled hand and made a banal comment about the value of hard work.

[celestialinter0]

VALUE--There was a little ache in her fancy of all he described. Her insignificance  in the presence of so much magnificence faintly affected her.

[countessalmirena]

FAINTLY - It had been a hard gritty day already, and Inspector Matt Ottendale was in no mood to smile as he approached the scene of the crime where the position of the victim had been strongly marked with chalk; he said sharply, "What pretentious idiot has been busy with the chalk here, when it's been made perfectly clear that a chalk outline contaminates the crime scene?"

[celestialinter0]

SMILE--Never frown at your parents' sluggishness , because you can't imagine how they taught you to walk when you were a toddler.

[papermoon.lady]

WALK - When it rains and it's cold outside, it is nice to sit in a library and read a good book.

[twyngwyn]

BOOK - curling up in bed with a good book beats a Kindle every time

[countessalmirena]

CURLING - Sergio was sick of running — from criminal associates, crime bosses, women who only wanted his money (when he had any), debt collectors, drug kingpins, informers, police — and he had reached a stage in his life where it seemed worth straightening himself out.