Thank you! Have you read A Gentleman in Moscow? That book totally inspires my writing. Towles goes no-holds-barred on sentence length and word usage, and yet it’s an incredibly readable, enjoyable book. That said, this is a bit of a non-sequitur because I don’t think he used the word “recalcitrant” in the book, but the point is a good writer can do so without it seeming contrived and pedantic. It’s just delicious!