Word: fey
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...times a year, Marsden said, "we get telegrams which lead nowhere. Last week, one man claimed to have discover- ed a colossal nova, but it turned out to be the planet Saturn. It usually taken a fey seconds of observation to find the false alarm...
...result may be Texan-presidential in scale, but in detail the wedding bears all the diverse and diverting hallmarks of Luci Johnson. The bride-to-be is at once gay and fey and deeply religious. She displays Johnson traits in abundance: she is strong-willed and sensitive, voluble and introspective, fiercely loyal to her family yet irrepressibly independent. Lady Bird describes her younger daughter as both a "sprite" and a "philosopher." Lyndon Johnson once said: "I have known this little ruler all her life. She entered the world with a commanding voice and has been taking over ever since." Luci...
MORGAN! David Warner and Vanessa Red grave brighten a black British comedy in which a fey young artist is destroyed by his emotional dependence on Karl Marx, King Kong and his former wife...
Untidy Muse. This book makes no more sense than the king's English, but it projects the same fey charm. It is no longer than a summer's reverie in an aluminum chaise longue, where it was clearly designed to be read. Its gossamer plot drifts like a cloud; its characters have all the substantiality of that scarlet flash in the lilac bush that may have been a hummingbird. What delicate diplomatic mission has brought Bemis to Suruk? Why does Sajjid offer him $1,000,000 to come, and why does Bemis refuse the fee? For what reason...
...jazz idiom. Her repertory is a treatise on variety and taste, spun by a voice of agile grace and knowing jazz inflection and phrasing. Yet heard in person, she poses a problem. Willowy, tawny, perfectly featured and somehow kissed by ice, she seems sometimes too beautiful for the consistently fey interpretation she gives to the lyrics of her songs...