Word: rowdier
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...crowd got better-acquainted at a rowdier, raunchier party hosted in Pforzheimer’s Comstock 403—which featured a beer bong hanging from the room’s second floor while hip-hop tunes kept the sweaty crowd moving...
...about it long and hard. It's a difficult time to go out and do things you'd normally do because there's that fear that if something happens - and that could be anything, not necessarily that we're attacked or anything like that - but just people may be rowdier because of the patriotism that they're feeling. Usually we've gone on the FDR drive up to the highway to watch the fireworks. But this year I'm worried: What if the crowd starts to run because somebody's setting off fireworks or something...
...there is something different about McCain's student supporters. Their cheeks are rosier, their cheering louder, their rowdiness rowdier. And it's not obvious why this is so. Gore and Bradley promise the most money for higher education, Bush is the youngest and (arguably) most charming, and Alan Keyes is, well, Alan Keyes. McCain, meanwhile, is a stodgy veteran who, like Grandpa at the fireplace, never stops talking about "when I was your age?...
...obsessive cleanliness of Dutch domestic culture to the level of abstraction--no wonder his great Dutch successor, Mondrian, loved him, for that and other reasons. Vermeer's jonkers and juffers (dandies and damsels) are so neat, dressy and full of decorum that you can hardly compare them to the rowdier figures elsewhere in 17th century Dutch art, coming on with wineglasses and making gestures of sexual insinuation. Vermeer's are seldom marked by experience, and except for maids and servants, they all belong to the same stratum--a class, needless to say, rather above his. Does this make them insipid...
...soldiers, and there was a quality of rest -- of fate and damage accepted -- to the predicaments they described. The stories in the author's second collection, Cold Snap (Little, Brown; 240 pages; $19.95), are at least as powerful and as gritty with existential courage. But they are also rowdier, messier with life...