| 单词 | blowsy |
| 例句 | But after a while of marriage, she turned into a stout blowsy woman, known in Brooklyn as “the saloon type.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a blowsy woman with dyed yellow hair, and from time to time we saw her out in the front yard, chopping wood or filling a scuttle from the coal pile. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There was something rather blowsy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z As you pull around the circular drive that cuts through the wide lawn, blowsy pink peonies provide a cheerful welcome. Like it was ‘made in heaven’: a secret garden in the suburbs offers an Asian-style landscape Honesty boxes sit outside houses for home produce: eggs, runner beans, blowsy brassicas. Bungay - the perfect country retreat 2010-12-21T10:57:00Z These rich, blowsy flowers from which paint dribbles in rivulets are a metaphor not just for transience but embody too the sensuality of life. A sublime trio 2012-06-08T21:55:02Z The second big scene is a party thrown by Lilian’s blowsy mother and sisters, to which Len begs off, claiming an insurance society dinner. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters Together they came up with an equally humiliating formula, pairing Lisa’s blowsy old actor persona with this violent new format to create The Comeback, perhaps the best comedy about television in the 21st century. Lisa Kudrow on The Comeback’s groundbreaking satire 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z On Lucy’s introduction to Lily, a voluble, oversharing type who in the 1950s might have been characterized as “blowsy,” the two seem unlikely friends. ‘Earthquake Bird’ Review: Unlikely Friends Caught in a Mystery 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It’s okay to be a blowsy, bawdy gal who enjoys a Trainwreck routine of casual sex, copious booze, and friendly, in-your-face cleavage! Review: 'How to Be Single' Fails to Find the Joy in Singledom 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The orchestra gloried in the work’s brilliant and kaleidoscopic sonorities and produced powerful heft, with shining woodwinds and brasses, without letting the sound turn blowsy. Music Review: Orchestral Extremes: From a Pizza Shop to Carnegie 2011-02-06T22:41:17Z I just like big blowsy stuff and a good old-fashioned adventure story you can get your teeth into. Kate Mosse: a life in writing 2012-10-12T21:55:18Z The dining table hosts a permanent slovenly debris, of books, mainly, plus assorted stationery, old pencil-heckled text printouts, plastic bags like an invasion of blowsy desiccated jellyfish, and a set of half-broken opera glasses. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Not for a moment did she patronise the character by playing her as blowsily vulgar, yet she effortlessly communicated what it was like to carry a tray of drinks for a living. Olivier awards: Roger Allam reigns, Sheridan Smith shines ... but is it the end of an era? 2011-03-14T13:39:21Z It was Taylor's ability to get into the skin of the character, more than the padding and a tousled salt-and-pepper wig, which transformed the legendary beauty into a blowsy virago. Elizabeth Taylor obituary 2011-03-23T14:01:48Z Andre was not alone in draining the art swamp of blowsy personal expression — a once-radical position that is now commonplace, verging on ubiquitous. The exhibition that has art fans in a fury: Our critic's take on MOCA's Carl Andre retrospective 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z You can package Jackson Pollock as drips and Barnett Newman as zips, but de Kooning, who painted both opulent abstractions and big, blowsy dames, resists easy branding. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z The blowsy miscellany of the works in “Unfinished” now strikes me as exactly the right tenor for the Met Breuer. The Met’s “Unfinished” Is a Great Show, People! 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The finale began beautifully but progressed towards a rather blowsy grandeur rather than genuine exaltation. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko 2010-05-24T21:31:00Z Another one of Haskins’ quilts, “Peacocks in Purple,” worked in tonal shades of purple and blue with green accents, hung in the garden framed by blowsy hydrangeas blooms in a similar color palette. Dunn Gardens partners with Black quilting group to build inclusivity 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Today’s blowsy sweet peas descend from a wildling discovered by a Sicilian monk in the late 17th century. How to grow sweet peas in chilly weather like a pro 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Like torn stockings after a long night on the town, Mack’s blowsy installation feels exhausted, forlorn but happy to be here. Review: For Desert X 2019, I drove 198 miles to see 19 artists' work. Here's the best 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Nine years later, Melville assigned himself a far weightier role, as a journalist, in “Two Men in Manhattan,” his billet-doux to New York, complete with a suitably blowsy score. Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinema of Resistance 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Downstairs, there’s a small store selling local wines, soaps and sardines, and a narrow, blowsy garden. The Portland of Portugal 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z One of the funny, but doom-laden, elements in “A Christmas Garland” is the mockery of Galsworthy’s and Bennett’s loquaciousness, which carried within it the seeds of the idea that anything big and long is blowsy. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Large oils, at times combined with silk-screened digital imagery, may initially look like unholy messes: blowsy abstraction jostling with derelict figuration. Albert Oehlen Paints Post-Painting 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z What is going to happen as media with Western standards, however blowsy, operate ever more prominently in nations that do not share even corrupted variants of the ideals? Get over yourself, New York Times. You’re not standing up to anyone 2013-12-18T12:43:00Z A blowsy wife, more compassionate than the rest, said that all the world knew by this time that the meejor had won the big reward. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z When skies are blue and days are bright A kitchen-garden's my delight, Set round with rows of decent box And blowsy girls of hollyhocks. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z As if I would have given her any money, the impudent, blowsy thing! In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z Rising, she went to the mirror, to stare incredulously at the face it presented for her inspection, a cruel caricature, lined, distorted, blowsy, stained with tears. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z The Edinburgh Review described them as "two big blowsy German women." The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z The dresser was a blowsy old Irish woman, more obviously dirty than the room, and there were two ventilators, which gave a perpetual draught of unpleasant air. Carnival He was evidently surprised at being nearly run over by this blustering and blowsy young lady, but beyond that—nothing. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 But from the night I first saw her, a little girl in her father's moving-wagon, with her pink sun-bonnet pushed back from her blowsy curls, her hair, however rebellious, was always a picture. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas The loveliness of the woods in March is not, assuredly, of this blowsy rustic type. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers He indicated a short, blowsy, truculent-looking individual who was, at the moment, staring out the window. Gold They had not seemed like Ellen’s blowsy, obstreperous youngsters, practical and grasping to the last extreme after the model of their father. Cloudy Jewel She made no impression on him now ... he saw her simply as a countrywoman in the family way ... a little blowsy and dishevelled and red with exertion. Changing Winds A Novel Such a pink and white boy he was, with a dimple in each cheek and a blowsy tow head. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas Indeed, that room could still remember when a frowsy, blowsy hired girl was wont to stick her head in and groan, "Supper's ready!" In a Little Town That face, all blowsy and flushed, was at once wild and stupefied. Tatterdemalion In the attic, ironically secure, hung a cheap German print of blowsy children feeding a pig. The Rough Road Field-work, which fostered a blowsy carelessness, has declined, and at the same time the arrival of "residents" has greatly increased the demand for charwomen and washerwomen. Change in the Village They would have been charming in any room, but were quite irrepressible in his den, which no female presence, except that of his blowsy old bed-maker, had lightened since he had been in possession. Tom Brown at Oxford She had seen Lize but once, and that was in the distorting atmosphere of the restaurant, and she remembered her only as a lumpy, scowling, loud-voiced creature with blowsy hair and a watchful eye. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West The maid at Maple's dressed her in the evening, a blowsy young woman from Carlow who called her 'my darlin,' and told her that she had a beautiful head of hair. The Tragic Bride Before him stood a blowsy but not altogether unprepossessing woman of middle years. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure One gentleman did, indeed, offer to stake "that 'ere blowsy bob," as though a shilling in his possession were a rarity of which his friends must be certainly aware. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis "I'm so glad I didn't get my hat wet," said the Girl breathlessly, as she straightened it with a careful hand and wondered if she looked very blown and blowsy. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 The boarders stopped chewing and stared in absorbed interest, while Virginia kissed her blowsy mother. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West In the second week, Madame found out that a man had been surreptitiously inquiring about them at their lodgings, from the landlady and the landlady's blowsy daughter. The Lost Girl A red-faced, blowsy young woman with a large bust and a pinched-in waist. The Making of a Soul Her cheeks were like the heart of a blush rose; she never turned very red when she ran or skipped, and never looked blowsy. A Little Girl in Old Salem This unknown man strode across the lobby so confidently—every sturdy line of him suggesting blowsy strength. The Seventh Noon Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Sidney and a fat, blowsy woman with brass-colored hair as they both tried to dive under the friends-of-the-court table at the same place. Lone Star Planet He hammered on the door with his cane till he heard the grating of a chair on a brick floor; the door opened, and a blowsy, red-faced woman peered at him with blinking eyes. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World The dingily gaudy saloon fronts, like drabs in blowsy finery, struck a too sophisticated, sinister note—which, after all, only sums up completely the change which had taken place. Then I'll Come Back to You As I came up I saw a red-faced, blowsy woman, in a grey shawl, and with dusty, fluffy hair, fall on Charley's neck. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle Near by, with blowsy forelock and careless mane, a shaggy pony stood knee-deep in the river-sedge. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 What I saw was the advent of a big, blowsy woman, who was blazing with diamonds, whose face was good-natured, but who seemed ill at ease. A Man and a Woman Cherry was a maid, thoughtless, blowsy, still untouched enough for wonder; Primrose had been a wife, though only seventeen, these three months; in another three was to be a mother. The White Riband Or, a Young Female's Folly These pert and blowsy schoolgirls, with hideous voices, and arrogant curls, or crimped lion-manes of aggressive hair! Mount Music "Rough and blowsy, of course, like any other country girl," was Rose's reply. The English Orphans Her blowsy hair, burned at the ends but the color of corn-silk, came unloosed of its morning plait and she braided it over one shoulder, her blue eyes fixed on space. Every Soul Hath Its Song I suddenly knew, what I have always suspected, that I was blowsy,—blowsy and loose-jointed, with legs that are too long and not the right sort of feet. Christine A red-faced, bare-armed woman, blowsy and smelling strongly of soapsuds, came to the door and jerked it open. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways "I'd like to get hold of some of those blowsy editors that come smelling round the dock after yarns and drink, and wring their necks." A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle Her hair came partly undone and fell down over her blowsy face. The Inferno In the distance was heard the lusty song of the blowsy yokels, as they clumsily carted homeward the day's gathering. Mistress Penwick Lucrezia sits in what is meant to be an attitude of stately beauty, and the figure contrives somehow to symbolise that; though she appears to be both stout and even blowsy in appearance. The Silent Isle At the office this ecstasy of spirit persisted; even Miss Munch came in hair awry and blowsy, her beady eyes almost laughing. The Blood Red Dawn "Oh, Mr. Archer!" exclaimed a loud young voice; and looking up he saw before him the youngest and largest of the Blenker girls, blonde and blowsy, in bedraggled muslin. The Age of Innocence The woman was a blowsy creature of middle age, who had had a long succession of still-born children. Of Human Bondage They were still unresolved when she was interrupted by the entrance of a blowsy Irish girl with a basket on her arm. Bunner Sisters But nature is a treacherous blowsy jade, who respects nobody. The Certain Hour A blowsy, sweating barmaid caught his eye and without a word slapped down upon the sloppy counter before him a glass four fingers deep with unspeakable whiskey. The Bronze Bell "Three 'n' six!" croaked the cabby, like a blowsy and vindictive parrot. The Black Bag There was a skull in the place of honour on the walls, flanked by two Venetian pictures of the Virgin, and faced by a blowsy Bacchus and Ariadne from Flanders. The Highwayman There was something blowsy and uncertain and hesitating about the women in particular, which made one at once notice them. Twilight in Italy Lanyard paused and delved into his pockets, nodding genially to the blowsy, sleepy old face beneath the guardian's nightcap. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama And she was truly beautiful to us, that blowsy dame, through the beguiling witchery of her art. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life These young bucks, bank clerks, merchants, fl�neurs--who would not disdain a sailor's wife; blowsy Molls, ready to fall down in the first doorway for a glass of beer! Hunger A blowsy maid strained herself immediately across the strewn table and cloying lamb platter, and turned off two of the three gas jets. Gaslight Sonatas He poetizes everything he touches—quiet ponds, clumps of bushes, whitewashed cottages, simple swards, yellow cows, blowsy peasants, woodland openings, stretching meadows and winding streams—they are all full of divine suggestion and joyous expectancy. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists I imagine that she must have commenced life as a barmaid, for she had the orthodox tow hair and blowsy appearance. Allan and the Holy Flower Of that type, once blowsily good-looking, was Mrs. Button herself. The Fortunate Youth A blowsy, elderly, red-faced woman opened the door. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl I saw the door open on Betty's summons, and a brawny, tousled, red-faced woman appear—a most horrible and forbidding female, although bearing traces of a once blowsy beauty. The Red Planet The full-built, slightly blowsy city girl looked at the fine face of the other woman, with appreciation. Women in Love But whether the motherly lady with the somewhat blowsy hair was Mrs. Jones, or Mrs. Green, or Mrs. Walker, I cannot now say. Relics of General Chasse It was too early in the year for the trees to have grown blowsy and the grass worn and burnt. Who Cares? a story of adolescence Her one qualification for life was rather blowsy high spirits, which turned querulous or boisterous according to circumstances. Where Angels Fear to Tread No. 3 Little Blank Street had abated nothing of its stone-flagged dreariness; the same blowsy woman answered his inquiry. The Island Pharisees He would give much to be in a chair by one of those hearths and in the thick of that blowsy fragrance. The Path of the King After racking his imagination, it occurred to him to bribe the blowsy waiting-maid with gold. At the Sign of the Cat & Racket Dennie was just beyond Vincent, who noted incidentally the play of light and shadow on the blowsy ripples of her hair that night and remembered it all on a day long afterward. A Master's Degree He had not seen Zilla since Paul had shot her, and he still pictured her as buxom, high-colored, lively, and a little blowsy. Babbitt |
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