“Meanwhile, Earth-dwelling extremophile microorganisms, both thermophilic and psychrophilic, are variously adapted to temperatures that would fry us or freeze us.”
“There will always be species that manage to survive the most catastrophic events, such as extremophile bacteria.”
“By now, at least a dozen different classes of extremophile have been studied, ranging from acidophiles to xerophiles.”
“Their very extremeness is often, indeed, state-dependent with regard to other psychiatric illness and general stress level.”
“The unadulterated ecstasy of before is hardly a memory, and the extremeness of his mood swings is now a dullness that consumes him in unchanging monotony.”
“The explicitness and the extremeness of the artifice is a marker of its authenticity.”