Word: floridity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first glance, the program seemed interesting, contrasting English Renaissance music in the first half with motets by Bruckner and Brahms in the second. By the end of the concert, however, the contrast seemed to have little point. The six florid Elizabethan motets from "The Triumphs of Oriana" were all similar and Brahms and Bruckner, at least as interpreted here, seemed uniformly dreary...
Terry-Thomas supplies the voice for Sir Hiss, who is appropriately gap-toothed, much to the advantage of his forever-flickering tongue. Peter Ustinov makes a pleasingly florid prince, his voice full of empty threat and tenuous regality...
Beneath its florid style, Donleavy's fairy tale of New York is stark and compelling. Parts of A Fairy Tale of New York appeared as a play, "Fairy Tales of New York," which was produced on the London stage in 1961. In the novel, an enlarged and fundamentally altered work built around the play, Donleavy has stripped the classic fairy tale of its sharp dichotomy between good and bad, while retaining many of its mythic qualities. He has written an intensely personal vision of universal gloom. Like his hero, Donleavy was raised in New York, and like him, he sports...
...nearly everybody, at age 37, she produced a massive, readable, academically respectable biography of Mary Queen of Scots. Now, nearly five years later, as if intent on proving that her first success was no accident, the lady has delivered a fatter and more scholarly study of Oliver Cromwell, the florid, slovenly country gentleman who became Britain's first Lord Protector...
...purposes of publicity, and for the advancement of the box office receipts, the distributors of La Grande Bouffe would like moviegoers to be scandalized by: gluttony, scatology, sexual perversion, assorted malfunctions of the gastrointestinal tract and a rather florid disposition toward suicide. This may also have been the intention of Director Ferreri. Unfortunately, however, he hasn't the wit or style or inventiveness to outrage. Ferreri is the kind of clumsy film maker whose deadeningly literal style could turn even the grossest affront into a piddling bromide...