Word: florid
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...seem to notice most of the hangers-on snorting and smoking in Lucy's living room, nor is she put off by Lucy's hazy demeanor. She enthuses about the spontaneity of Lucy's photos, not immediately recognizing that Lucy is the photographer, and quickly embarrassed by her own florid appraisal. "Am I going off?" she nervously asks her neighbor...
...small, bristling man with a florid mustache and snowy, brushed-back eyebrows, Glimp guarded his privacy so laxly that more than enough is known of his stormy and unconventional personal life. He always denied the rumor circulating in his hometown, Pascagoula, Miss., that he shot his mother and the mailman before departing for foreign shores. He married the same woman, nude composer Lola Plitskaza, five times and divorced her twice. Their only child, Enrico, an embalmer of some promise, died tragically on the Lusitania, though not the voyage on which it sank...
...largely circumstantial case, Starr's ace is Lewinsky, whose lawyers have made clear from the start that they weren't going to let her go to jail, and whose florid romantic aspirations left a trail behind her like rose petals: e-mails and phone calls, beeper pages and presents. And affidavits. Though Lewinsky swore in early January that she had no sexual relationship with the President, a later proffer to Starr reportedly admitted to just that, was vague on the question of obstruction and said nothing at all about the mysterious "talking points" she gave her friend Linda Tripp...
...American Ethnology 1910-'11. But the big black Bosendorfer grand piano--whose propped-open top looks like a dinosaur's maw--dominates the room. You poke your head inside, your nose nearly pressing against the strings. She begins to play, hands cascading down the keys. Her playing is florid, feral--and then it's over. Your skull throbs with her music. Is this how it feels to be inside Tori's head...
...poetry released between 1923 and 1955, Stevens' uncollected poems, three plays, several prose pieces, notebooks, journals and letters; Opus Posthumous contains all but these last three. The few additional verses in Collected Poetry and Prose originate from Stevens' Harvard years, when he served as president of the Advocate. Several florid sonnets, one explicitly in "Imitation of Sidney," lack the tautness and precision of diction characterizing his later style. They scan too well, betraying too much of youthful impression-ability. Stevens endured nine barren years after graduation before, happily, returning to poetry...