This is the lead of a newsletter put out by a communication consultant:
"My second future-facing experience defies simple description; I don't have words big enough, with enough energy, openness and genuine graciousness to describe it. Or words to convey what it's like to stand face-to-face with massive, mind-bendingly complex issues and begin to imagine the scope of actions needed to impact outcomes …."
What's she trying and failing to describe? An HR conference.
Incidentally, she does not bother to reference her first "future-facing experience," so I assume it was her first day of kindergarten.
I’d say she’s probably underestimating herself. Surely someone who talks about a “future-facing experience” is quite capable of using lots of big words.
This reminds me of comment a high school English teachers once wrote on an essay of mine:
“Your prose is excessively over-wrought in relation to your subject matter and thesis.”
My excuse is that I was 16 and in high school . . . what do you suppose HER excuse it?!
Hilarious that you remember that “excessively over-wrought” corrective.