Word: fustianeer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Armies had had successes which, according to the fustian of the Führer, "baffled the imagination." Yet this crucial Blitz was not quite on schedule; the Russians were not easy to demoralize and not cheap to beat. And every conqueror since the Tartars had broken his teeth on the Russian bite (see p. 20). He, his Führer and his soldiers might still break their military teeth beyond repair. Or they might taste the sweetest glory...
Beside this battle, that of Salamis (480 B.C.) seems now a great exercise in fustian: there Xerxes, surrounded by his brilliant court, sitting on a throne on a shoulder of Mt. Aegaleus, watched his hopes of world conquest crushed on the crescent of water below, watched the brazen-beaked Athenian triremes dart in and bite the fat bellies of his own oversized craft, 400 little ships crushing twice as many big ones. One of the Athenian seamen that day was a poetic fellow named Aeschylus...
...Fourth Symphony that the qualities of intensity and warmth one associates with Brahms attain their final fusion, and at the same time their most complete expression. The First Symphony had dangled awkwardly between saccharinely and fustian. The Second was better unified, but its succession of lush themes cloyed one with an overdose of sweetness, while the lyrical Third fell short in Brahmsian power. The Fourth, then, is Brahm's finest work in the symphonic form. It is pretentious, but for me at least, it fulfills its pretensions. As commentators have pointed out, the whole work is steeped in passion, even...
...when Fools for Scandal was last week presented to U. S. cinemaudiences, Actor-Prince Mike's lowbrowed, pseudo-Romanoff visage had joined the innumerable faces on the cutting room floor. What remained was more fustian than fun, a pursuit through high & low worlds of a popular, penniless French marquis working his way, via the scullery, into a cinema star's boudoir. In spite of Actress Lombard's strident earthiness, the result is as unearthly as Actor Gravet's French-flavored, concave British inflection, as wooden as Charlie McCarthy-whom Actor Gravet, in claw-hammer coat & starchy...
...before his 54th birthday, which would also have been his 30th wedding anniversary; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Successively hotel clerk, reporter, editor, press agent, free-lance columnist. O. O. Mclntyre wrote about Manhattan for village folk-for the people of Gallipolis, Ohio, his home town, among others-in fustian prose, sprinkled with fictional references to the great, first-hand description of accidents, nostalgic contrast of city and village. Sickly for years, he prowled Manhattan for material in a Rolls-Royce. Part of his legacy: 50 columns written in advance...