An adept writer can make words stand on their head and spin. Consider this line from Jay McInerney, the subject is wine:"...it is the lubricant that stimulates our conversation, but it's a polygamous relationship that encourages and enhances our other passions. It leads us to other subjects..." The topic is irrelevant, though I do like wine, it's the brio of that adverb, polygamous, that I like. He's prised it off it's habitual setting, where it's blanketed under a veil, spun it around and used it to illuminate something else. I love that facility, I wish I had it, the skill of taking one word then using it to such enterprise somewhere where it would never normally be seen.