If you enclose a complete sentence in parentheses and it occurs inside another sentence, don't capitalize the first word of the sentence and don't add a period inside the parentheses, but if the sentence requires a question mark or exclamation point go ahead and add them.
His abhorrence for work was astounding (he never once did a thing that he was told, and if he was forced to do it, he never did), but he had a true talent for diversion.
The most obscure word I've run across is "sesquipedalian" (would it be better to say "polysyllabic"?) and I've never once seen it used.
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