Word: florid
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Suddenly the boy's florid, noised-about fancies bring in the police. They arrest him, then bring him home, only to question and arrest his father. Before he goes off, the father disillusions his hero-worshiping son by spewing forth a lot of ugly facts. But at the final curtain he is more his son's hero than ever...
Producer Dore Schary hoped that Plymouth Adventure would "humanize" the Pilgrims, but they never emerge on the screen as flesh-and-blood characters. Ihe picture has a spectacular Atlantic storm, but most of the time the Pilgrims -and the audience-are merely awash in a sea of florid dialogue...
...dedicate an auditorium for the Pompeian Archeological Center. Until they had a chance to study her bright colors and billowing lines, he brushed off photographers eager to take careful pictures. "It's enough for now," he chuckled, "to say that she is the prototype of a Neapolitan beauty-florid, fleshy, luscious. In short, what you Anglo-Saxons would call a girl with sex appeal...
Hooton found that most of the Irish that have immigrated to this country come from the western part of the land there and from the lower and upper-most corners. These are the roundheaded, tallest, heaviest and most florid of the race. These are the Irishmen who are quite so often pictured in cartoons and stories as the "big, affable guys with a ready wit and a brawny...
...conductor, he disdains a strict beat (and often any beat at all), breaks every known rule of his art and gets clean away with it. His florid, utterly unorthodox style, his physical grotesqueries on the podium are often taken as vanity or exhibitionism. Admirers prefer to think them the result of his notable freedom from conventional inhibitions. His range of gesticulation may be anything from a full, tense crouch to the subtlest nuance of fingertip or eyebrow. The result, however fantastic to the eye, is nevertheless a brilliant coincidence of musical sensitivity and bodily gesture which comes as an astonishing...