Word: fathomless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flannery O'Connor's characters are often poor whites in the postwar South she knew well. The stories tend to start with limited people whose superficial fretfulness shields fathomless self-satisfaction-women who are always "giving thanks" and telling their "niggers" to do likewise. By the end, their world has been shattered by some agent of evil greater than anything their cramped spirits could even recognize...
...smuggler, a member of a group of traveling tarts, and a lover of men who are unlovable to others. Somewhere along the line, like Greene, she has become a Catholic but, again like Greene, she has a weakness for touching the "untouchable." Her last untouchable is an Italian of fathomless duplicity named Visconti, who has bilked everyone from cardinals to oil sheiks. Now he is on the run, having been classified as a war criminal...