Word: antically
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Cousteau describes one attack in detail: "My mind was jammed with conceited thoughts and antic joy. I struggled to fix my brain on reality, to attempt to name the color of the sea about me ... navy blue, aquamarine and Prussian blue. The debate would not resolve. The sole fact I could grasp was that there was no roof and no floor in the blue room...
...barefooted contestants, dressed in pajama like costumes, clambered carefully into the canvas-covered ring. At a signal from the referee, the contestants knelt on their haunches, Japanese style, heads bowed low. Then they hopped to their feet and came out fighting. Much of the fighting was a soundless, antic pantomime with the contestants warily circling each other, clutching pajama tops, watching the opponent's feet like two children taking their first steps on the dance floor...
...pushing furiously with her ski poles to gain the speed she would have to check, moments later, with a swivel-hip turn. She swept down the dizzying de scent with the verve and hell-for-leather dash of a man. Crouching, straightening, swinging her slim hips in an almost antic mimicry of a rumba step, she darted and danced through the multicolored flags that outlined the course...
Texas Carnival (MGM) turns Red Skelton and Esther Williams loose in a familiar but cheerful Technicolored antic. They play a carnival sideshow team mistaken for a pair of multimillionaires at a grandiose Texas resort hotel...
...Bust. Bouncing up & down the third-base coaching line, Dressen unfurls a series of antic semaphore signs, punctuated by shrill whistles, designed to befuddle opponents and give Dodger hitters and runners the benefit of his 31 years' experience as player (third base with Cincinnati), coach and manager. Unlike self-effacing ex-Manager Burt Shotton, he is no dugout sphinx. If some second-guessing fan questions his strategy, he is likely to switch his attentions to the crowd...