Word: boasting
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...1960s, when the firm created the world's first line of wine glasses shaped specifically for different grape varieties. Now Riedel has designed a new set of lead-crystal decanters inspired by the bird life of Murano, the Venetian island famed for its glassware. The three decanters boast an avian grace: the Swan's swooping body, the Flamingo's long slender neck and the Paloma's dove-like curves. And as with any Riedel product, they are masterpieces of function as well as form. Exposing wine to oxygen for a few hours before pouring can improve its taste (thanks...
Though Harvard may not boast the same home run numbers, its depth makes the line up more than capable. Every Crimson batter is hitting at a clip above .250 while five players, Lauren Murphy (.361), Ellen Macadam (.348), Emily Henderson (.341), Jess Pledger (.315), and Jen Francis (.313) are all above...
...only do the Red Raiders boast strong doubles, led by the 13th-ranked pair of senior Bojan Szumanski and junior Christian Rojmar, but their singles play has also proved forceful, helping the squad to a second place tie in the Big 12 and a national top 30 finish for the seventh time in 14 years...
...Graveyard Girl herself, but it’s forgiven by the time “found sounds” and computer whirrs lead it out. For a band named after another galaxy, “We Own The Sky” seems like an appropriate Reagan-era boast. The track shimmers with hedonistic abandon, flying high on echoing keyboards and the indulgently meaningless mantra, “It’s coming / It’s coming on,” then evaporating instantaneously. At a staggering eight and a half minutes, lead single “Couleurs?...
...sourness of leather and manure. He leaned against the door frame. If she tottered just a step, if she relaxed her taut body just a little, she would touch him. “As you wish, Viscountess,” he said. “I mean not to boast of my prowess, but I am an excellent rider.”Felicity’s mouth went dry. She wagered he was. She asked: “Tell me, will it be hard?”He barely smiled at her this time, just gazed at her with heavy...