Phenomenally

Me: [Colleague] is a phenomenally lazy, obnoxious asshole.

Profound

Colleague: The main point of a classroom is to see their expression when you say something profound.

Competition

Me: So you’re saying that in nineteen fifty-six, they had a competition, to replace the previous two years’ contests, according to the principles of Maoism?

China

Me: Why would I assume that you got your dog from China?

Guards

Me: Perhaps they should have put the guards to death.

Maybe

Me: Maybe the first words out of your mouth to me shouldn’t have been a lie.

Heartening

Me: It’s heartening to see that I’m not the only colleague with a terrible haircut.

Neotenic

Me: In a certain sense, it may turn out to be the case that all vertebrates are neotenic sea squirt larvae, but what does that even mean?

Hours

Me: I’ve been sitting at my desk a long time. I just listened to two and a half hours of Telemann orchestral suites.

Heaven

Man: If there’s no time there, I think that’s, well, heaven.