practical terminus of certain political and theological commitments . Could a sentence be more obfuscating than this ? 1 By wellformed I meant adhering to basic , accepted syntax and grammar . Minimally coherent . I didn ' t mean wellcrafted , much less Pulitzer worthy lol . 2 Don ' t know what to tell ya , man . As someone also reasonably wellversed in English , I think that sentence is normal and plain as day . It ' s not obfuscating AT ALLit ' s not deceptively complex and no single word is beyond the reach of an intelligent middle schooler . No , it ' s not colloquial , 5 thgrade , USA Today English . Yes , much is written in more of an academic register . Butat least so farnothing is out of the ordinary . It ' s not Hegel , Judith Butler or Zizek . Have you read much political philosophy ? Any Hobbes , Mill , Hamilton , or Tocqueville . Rawls or Nozick ? A Supreme Court opinion ? Have you read Emerson or Poe ? Dickens ? An intelligent lay periodical like The New Yorker or NYRB ? If so , you ' ve doubtless encountered much more taxing yet sensible stuff than that sentence . If you think this is intolerable , we don ' t even have to venture into the college curriculum . There ' s reams of basic high school literature like Cooper or Hawthornethat a good deal more advanced . And then to call it incoherent ? ! lololC ' mon , man that ' s just an fundamentaly unserious , hyperbolic accusation . Here below is a selection of similarly phrased , intelligible statements sourced from reputable periodicals , who are reasonably wellversed in the English language The Clone Wars feels like the logical terminus of Star Wars ' threedecadesold adventure in prolonged preadolescenceStar Wars The Clone Wars reviewed . SlateArguably , Allen ' s screenplay diagnoses Abe ' s plot as the logical terminus for his particular strain of failed Bushera progressivism . Irrational Man Film Review Slant Magazineman As the practical terminus of navigation on the four lower lakes , it had advantages patent to the most casual observer but they must needs be supplemented by a comprehensive system of modes of transit in all directions . Harpers , Metropolis of the Prairies ChicagologyAs Christine Gledhill suggests , the political commitments of filmmakers often have to get negotiated through generic traditions for constructing stories and marketing appeals which sell those stories to demographically desirable audiences . The Wow Climax Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture Zrjo 5 f 3 TvHsCpgPA 103 lpgPA 103 dqterminus % 22 politicalcommitments % 22 sourceblotscpdYenh 2 NcsigOTB 16 Do 9 Oj 8 wPTRUOemojG 3 En 8 hlensaXved 0 ahUKEwju 68 uMxMPQAhUGOSYKHVnBCiEQ 6 AEIIjAC # vonepageqterminus % 20 % 22 political % 20 commitments % 22 ffalseComing forward in time , there is no logical terminus . Hence the special pertinence ofcontinuity . A View from the Spanish Borderlands All decent folk want to avoid the logical terminus of our current political trajectory . Telegraph , Are the Tories Headed For A S p l i t theToriesheadingforasplit . html