News at Eleven: Later on, the grandfather's eyes

are "dark, watery" and his neck is "thick and oily" as the teenage [Barack] Obama relishes the sound of words and begins to feel his way around the kinds of things they can do.

In one line Barack "shinks" away from grandpa, a strange word that, according to urbandictionary.com, means "an evasive sinking manouevre", which is clever and poetic.

from The Guardian: The lyrical Democrat

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