Word: mellower
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...this time the Old Man has been transmogrified into a wise and mellow padrone, and the story shifts a generation. Daughter Anna inherits her mother s masochism; her sister Margaret gets her father's greed. As for Robert, he drinks, chases women and wonders what the Old Man ever saw in him. The reader can only agree...
...gray formality, it appeared for this day to have taken on something like opalescence. The President was more relaxed and charming than he had ever seemed. When George Shultz, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, sympathized with the President over the rainy afternoon, Nixon summoned up a mellow, almost Irish line: "No, no. A soft rain caresses the marriage." Pat Nixon, in a bright dress decorated with appliqued orange, pink and yellow flowers, was vivid and proud...
...best English version of a straightforward Russian word meaning "daybreak." Nabokov seems to know and obstinately use all the English words that ever existed, but does he really not see that "stirless" (as in "Stirless, I stand there at the window") is an unsuccessful coinage, or that "mellow moon" sounds like an ad for Mars Bars...
Everybody says he's competitive, but his combativeness in sports seems to mellow him as a person. He was admitted to Harvard Law School, but he's not sure he wants to go. "Seven years in Cambridge, on the East Coast is ridiculous." he says...
...vineyards. The state's favorable soil and climate rival and in some ways surpass that of the wine-producing areas of France. Only in recent years, however, have California vintners been able to overcome the popular impression-once founded on fact-that most of their wines lacked the mellow appeal of Europe's output. One consequence is a splurge of expansion that has lured both big corporations and a remarkable number of individual entrepreneurs into the California wine industry...