Word: colourful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...enveloped her breasts and her face, her throat, her tired belly, her knees, her thighs and her feet. She lay with shut eyes, the colour of rosy flame through her lids ... She reached and put leaves over her eyes. Then she lay again, like a long white gourd in the sun, that must ripen to gold ... She was beginning to feel warm right through. Turning over, she let her shoulders dissolve in the sun, her loins, the backs of her thighs, even her heels. And she lay half stunned ... (page...
...various times in the history of the University, students have been forced to accept more controlled clothing rules. In 1789, the "Committee for Uniformity of Studente's Habit" required of all freshmen the wearing of blue-grey woolen coats and "waistcoats and breeches of the same colour...
...Though Shaw's proposed "alfabet" never got beyond the discussion stage, he had set down some ideas on the subject. He would 1) keep the present system except for x, c and q; 2) eliminate the neutral second vowels found in such words as colour, labour and honour; 3) substitute "unambiguous symbols" for the consonant combinations sh, zh, wh, th, dh, ng; also for the vowel-consonant combinations ah, aw, at, et, it, of, ut, oot, yoot...
...taking a room in a dingy bed-and-breakfast place with a eat-loving woman, and later settling down with an amiable middle-aged prostitute and her dog Trixie. All this local colour and his own quiet virtue and the origin of his criminal status in humanitarian hatred of war rather than the more normal roots of crime, make a refreshingly original atmosphere for a thriller...
...trick accidentally when one of his drawing papers was stained, Cozens found it a useful method of getting his students to concentrate on the main shapes of an imaginary landscape instead of on niggling outlines. "In Nature," he wrote, "forms are not distinguished by lines but by shape and colour." Antedating impressionism by more than a century, Cozens might be called its great-grandfather. His students and his son John Robert imitated Cozens' spontaneity and broad brush work; Turner and John Constable imitated theirs, and the French impressionists took over from there...