3: Times “hair” is described in terms of “shock”: twice as “shock of [______] hair,” and once using “shock” as a transitive verb taking hair as its object.

1: Time a “kissing marathon” is invoked to expand the meaning of the concept of “pointless exertion,” specifically with regard to a husband and wife countenancing each other in face to face silence.

2: Times “in-a-bottle” is used to describe an improbably large object housed within an improbably (relative) object.