pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
this is not the time (for that); that's out of the question right now
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
extempore; impromptu; improvised; ad-lib; off-the-cuff; instant
ticket; token; label; tag; sign; card; playing card
heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion
twenty years of age; youth; early age; tender age of ...
in history; ever; historical
the aforementioned; the said; (man, incident, etc.) in question; the usual
woman (writer, artist, aviator, etc.)
pioneer; settler; colonist
debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh
planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)
(full-length) novel; long novel
big hit; smash hit; popular item (e.g. movie, music)
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts
community; circles; kingdom; erathem; field (electrical); border
revolution; 58th year of the sexagenary cycle (in Onmyōdō)
fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
to be pleased; to gloat; to glow with self-satisfaction
satisfaction; contentment; sufficient; satisfactory; satisfying (an equation)
with a broad grin; smirking
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
to finger; to touch; to make changes to; to tinker with; to dabble in; to do as a hobby
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making
to coagulate; to curdle; to be fanatical; to be obsessed with; to stiffen; to become stiff
to be commonly referred to as; as people say; as the saying is; they say
to end; to be finished; to die; to perish; to do utterly; to do completely
to pay no attention to (while listening); to take no notice of; to ignore; to let go in one ear and out the other
in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of
to get tired of waiting; to grow impatient