[andyjohnson0]

It didn't seem excessive to me. "pusillanimous" stuck out, but apart from that it seemed like fairly normal prose.

[kcplate]

> First there was the fire, the smoke billowing infernally into the Appalachian night. It just kept burning. Days of insatiable flame. A black pillar of fumes took up residence above the town like an inert tornado. At its heart, we learned, was the corpse of a train, fifty cars off the rails

To me, even Shakespeare’s Richard III didn’t begin with this level of overly flowery poetic structure.

[dalmo3]

The text read like an inert tornado.