Word: floridation
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...antique Duesenberg, arriving at the scene of murder after murder too late to do anything except get blood on his shoes. Over and over again, and very well, the author describes the Duesenberg, describes the rush of night driving, the murders, the blood and Magnuson's florid mental state...
Moreau was Matisse's teacher, but he is not an artist who fits into the formalist canons of "modernism." Indeed, for 50 years it has been de rigueur to reject his work as florid and sickly, despite its demonstrable influence on surrealism and its frequently astonishing beauty. That beauty, however, is not in the structure; his nymphs have a way of looking like Delacroix houris, but boned, and one may look in vain-except in the hundreds of tiny and miraculously spontaneous oil sketches and color notes that fill the Musée Moreau in Paris-for that dynamism...
...witness with the round, florid face had barely settled into the chair when he was asked by the clerk of court to spell his last name...
Ferris found an outstanding set of soloists. The two sopranos in their Sit nomen Domini and the florid Illu enim ascenderunt showed a sensitivity to each other as units of the ensemble; they were not soloists competing against one another. The two basses sang with great variety, from the delicate Quis sicut Dominus to the big Quia fecit from the Magnificat...
...Scenarist Fraser, whose Flashman novels Lester once tried to adapt. The Fraser books are full of the kind of self-deflating braggadocio, the same sort of elaborate but inglorious combats one finds here. Heroics are mocked, survival is championed. The musketeers are made into creatures whose absurdities of conduct, florid codes of honor and hollow protestations of heroism make them all the more recognizable and human. It is their own faint absurdity that makes them true...