It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.
The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen.