Garish and Overdone

“But of course the black eye would make him look that way whether he was or not. It was a garish, overdone display, about a quarter of an acre, with deep magenta and black and a few isolated blue stripes. That is what had happened when Pastor John Mitchell had extended the right hand of fellowship forcefully to Chad’s left eye . . . John Mitchell had perhaps missed his calling as an amateur boxer, but he had clearly not missed Chad” (Evangellyfish, pp. 143-144).