Word: fancier
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...past the idea that fakeness is a bad thing--use a fancier term, like artifice, if that helps you--then The Hills is one of the most magnificent pieces of fakery on television, a jewel-like celebration of superficiality...
...home, the U.S. flexed its great muscles, put everyone to work, paid them more money, built them more and better houses, more and fancier cars (see BUSINESS IN 1952). Its enterprising suburb builders raised up almost overnight a new Levittown beside the Delaware River, bigger at birth than the pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania cities of York and Lancaster. Its patient medical researchers found drugs that gave promise of conquering TB and polio. Its impatient newspaper readers doused themselves inside & out with another wonder drug, chlorophyll, and followed the Wars of the Roses-Eleanor and Billy...
...Manufacturers say the fancier and more expensive lids are quickly growing in popularity...
...Harvard refuses to use styrofoam cups for environmental reasons. Most of the fancier dome lids are designed to fit styrofoam cups...
...approve of director Liz Friedlander's camera tricks. To make the dance moves look fancier, she'll momentarily speed them up or slow them down. But the fogey in me (who am I kidding? the fogey is me) admires the lesson Pierre teaches his students: that to take up ballroom dancing is the easiest way for them to shake off the carapaces of their street-hardened attitude and discover the social uses of discipline, civility, subtlety. And if they think of dancing as orchestrated sex, as screwing in three-quarter time, that...