Telltale marks around the pan of yeast gave him a clew to the trouble.

He'd gotten into tremendous shape so that he could run around his backhand and avoid hitting it altogether. He even tried a left-handed forehand. That was how desperate he was.

You seem to have erred in characterizing as solipsistic those solons who dangled a participle in drafting the law controlling the National Endowment for the Arts. The near homophone for which you apparently reached is solecistic, violating conventional grammar. Using solipsistic, a form of philosophic self-absorption, is sciolistic, i.e., shallow on understanding. What a catachresis!

[A]ll the strange oaths and imprecations found in a seaman's vocabulary were called into service by our nettlesome captain and his crew, and hurled without mercy on the winds and weather.