Word: floridation
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Bridget would come scurrying out with a cup in her hand, a big florid woman in a faded pink wrapper. She sassed right back: "Eh, Tonio, finish yer yellin". Fine times when a body can't 'ave a cuppa tay in peace an' quiet. She wouldn't'a minded to wait for a bit: would yer, love...
Back in Washington Columnist Art Buchwald seemed happy enough to be left behind. Comfortably reflecting on the fact that Chairman Mao writes uplifting verse, Buchwald offered a collection of poems that President Nixon might quote back at him, in Mao's own florid style. To the harried word reporters in Peking, one was especially to the point...
...fine techniques with beautiful phrasing that never is broken in awkward moments for breathing. The supremely beautiful moment of the Suite is the Double of the Polonaise: the theme of the Polonaise appears in the bass (played as if a solo part by Harnoncourt himself) with an incredibly florid counterpoint in the flute part. The beauty and care taken by Harnoncourt in his accompaniment is outstanding. The usual fate of this section is to have a frantic virtuoso display by the flutist over a barely-audible figured bass...
Sanders' book is written in a strangely mixed and stilted style, ranging from occasional jaunts into officialese (at times sounding like a desk sergeant's account of a routine house-check), to rather florid descriptions of some of the actual murders. But most of the story is told in the best traditions of nighttime rewrite, hard-hitting, punch-packing journalism. This is where he is most effective. The actual murders at the Tate and LaBianca houses are told in this way, and aside from the actual sensationalism of the material itself, the style makes it the most readable and coherent...
...coloratura high wire, both singers emerge as phenomenal. Each has staggering facility in florid runs, trills, leaps and arpeggios. Both have been accused of overdecorating their music, though each plans embellishments so tastefully and executes them so brilliantly that only stringent purists object...