Word: flourishings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Smith-Corona. He played upon it like a flamboyant pianist. Now he massaged the keyboard tenderly through a quiet phrase, now he banged it operatically, thundering along to the chinging bell at the end of the line, where his left arm would abruptly fire into midair with a flourish and fling home the carriage return...
...ranting fury he rings for a servant and, almost as an afterthought, gulls the hapless lackey into believing himself responsible for the killing. Then, confident of his escape and frugal to the last, Lord Are points to the remains of the meal and tells his dupe, with a dismissive flourish, "Throw the toast to the hens on your way to prison...
...Kennedy brought elegant dressing to the White House in 1961, she was only copying the exquisite Audrey Hepburn, as created by Givenchy. And Ralph Lauren defined the ambience of the '70s in two movie jobs: Annie Hall and Robert Redford's clothes in The Great Gatsby. That sort of flourish, Milbank concludes, is the conjuring trick that all these magicians must master or else face failure: the ability to catch what's in the air just a little ahead of time and present it in a few yards of cloth as the way a woman wants to look that year...
...Abrams and other parents enjoy the village atmosphere and diversity of West Hollywood, which offers something for every taste. One of President Reagan's favorite restaurants, Chasen's, is a local landmark to snobbery. An inordinate number of other acclaimed eateries --Spago, Trumps, Morton's, Scandia, the Ivy--also flourish. So do a fistful of opulent hotels, including Le Bel Age (a classy favorite of businessmen), the Sunset Marquis (occasional host to Bruce Springsteen and Cyndi Lauper) and Le Mondrian (boasting a $1 million rainbow paint job, nightly jazz and some of the best panoramic views in town...
...Skinnerean flourish, computers have taken over the roles once filled by biological units called parents. Electronic gizmos can teach your kid to talk, count, spell, add and read as well as to dodge alien fire and blow up spacecraft. But will these toys tell your child that there is a difference between bleach and Sprite? Can "Whiz Kid" instruct your child not to try to swallow the Nerf Pool Cue and Balls? Can "Little Professor" teach your youngster that Lhasa Apsos can cannot survive the intense heat and radiation barrage found inside a microwave oven...