| 单词 | florid |
| 例句 | Then, one day, Kaz was crossing a bridge over East Stave when he saw a man with florid cheeks and tufty sideburns entering a gin shop. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He was a fat man with a florid face and a sober black suit, whose name was Martin Lanselius. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Those florid good looks would not last him very long. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Yoyo and her sisters were forgetting a lot of their Spanish, and their father's formal, florid diction was hard to understand. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Curran gives a less florid version of the speech he gave in Minneapolis and people begin to inch forward. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z As for the director, he described Rutherford as “a large, rather florid man, with thinning fair hair and a large moustache, who reminded me forcibly of the keeper of the general store and post office.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He’s been messin’ up people’s mail for thirty years now,” a man with a florid, hawk-nosed face said from a far booth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was only impossible until it wasn’t, until he sighted that big frame, that florid face through the grate in an iron door. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The man standing behind her is stout and florid, with shaggy auburn hair. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The unforgettable one was done in florid wash colors, with a caption that read: “Forgive Them Their Trespasses.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He turned with surprise to face a stout, pugnacious colonel with a large head and mustache and a smooth, florid skin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z His face was florid and smudged with dirt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Felicia learned her florid language on those nights. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Resurrection man was a bit florid, but it held a truth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I glanced again at his florid face, saw he looked decent and climbed into the leather seat beside him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Up front, the professor, a bald white man with small spectacles and a florid face, has already started delivering his remarks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “It will take more than florid words and grandiose promises to persuade me.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The storm had arrived ahead of schedule, and Donovan’s florid face drained of blood as he pointed a shaking finger. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It meant a retreat from the very florid and ornate polyphony that had obsessed composers for a hundred years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Mr. Justice Dana was a stout and florid man, dressed in a black silk robe and a great woolly white wig. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z She recognized Lord Mathis Rowan, stouter and more florid than ever, the golden tree of his House spread across his white doublet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z For contrast, we'd been shown pictures of florid pink lungs that were healthy, uncontaminated by smoke. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He looked at the round florid face and wagged his head. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Johnny read it on Colonel Smith’s florid face. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A florid woman was flapping a pink feather fan. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Really, though, the album is florid, literate songwriting all the way, with music that demands several listens and lyrics that require, if not a thesaurus, then an iPad so you can Google the references. New band of the day ? No 921: Seefieldroad 2010-12-01T17:01:00Z A more grounded work than its florid, overscaled predecessor, it’s all hard edges and sharp elbows, a grand, riff-heavy outing glazed with a thick coat of shellac courtesy of legendary producer Mutt Lange. Muse meets ‘Drones’: More prog-rock paranoid fantasies 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z “Listen to that mournful cello!” he would exclaim during the song’s florid introduction. The Music of Don Shirley Is More Resilient Than Any “Green Book” Cliché 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Their dancing — florid, continuous, unsentimental — grew larger as they explored the stage with light jumps and darting, tight spins. Silky Ballet Solos and Irresistible Tapping Toes Close Fall for Dance 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Its florid colloquialisms and anarchic narrative forms serve to shed light on other neglected spaces — the lives of Britain’s forgotten working class. Review | In ‘Endland,’ Tim Etchells finds squalid humor in post-Brexit Britain 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z Believers have offered all sorts of elaborate defences of religion over the centuries, including excursions into poetry, drama and florid fantasy, but Grayling will focus forensically on the "literal sense" behind their high-flown words. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z “Footloose” could use more of that, but Mr. Brewer’s expertise — as shown in his previous films, “Hustle & Flow” and “Black Snake Moan” — lies in pulpy vulgarity and florid melodrama. | 'Footloose': ?Footloose? Remake, With Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid 2011-10-13T15:43:03Z Told in florid, exuberantly vulgar Rabelaisian prose, that novel, published in 1976, purported to be Falstaff’s memoirs, dictated in his ninth decade to a series of household secretaries. Robert Nye, Novelist Who Imagined Falstaff’s Memoirs, Dies at 77 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Nicholson decorated the interior in a spirit of mad eclecticism, combining trash-bin chic with florid romanticism, a look he once described as “fin de siècle Caribbean of Cuba style.” Johnny Nicholson, Whose Manhattan Cafe Attracted ‘New Bohemian’ Crowd, Dies at 99 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z While Morgan, in his trademark style, embellishes this newest work with florid turns of phrase like "ghastly, untrustworthy reptiles" and "treacherous weasels," he also distinguishes this piece with clever winks to the audience. Piers Morgan is our greatest living artist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z But there’s another explanation for the flat or florid line-readings and the inarticulate body language. Lars von Trier's Melancholia: The End of the World as He Knows It 2011-11-10T18:07:51Z Their music is architecturally sturdy, borrowing from electro and house, and also florid and misty, taking in some of dub music’s abstractions. How the Blaze’s Emotional Dance Music Brings Listeners to Tears 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Fries transforms his luxurious tonalities into a range of florid marks using brushes, combs, squeegees and straight-from-the-tube paint. A lively dance by Pia Fries 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z The more florid variations have their moment and disappear into the dictionaries. Tickle gizzard and the pleasure pivot: A history of sex slang and the coolest ancient dirty words 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z A Song of Ice and Fire — which is the rather florid title of Martin's series — is an epic for us, for the way we live now, and the way we fantasize now. George R. R. Martin's Dance with Dragons: A Masterpiece Worthy of Tolkien 2011-07-07T03:45:00Z Led by violinist Ida Levin, the musicians threw themselves into this melee with abandon, ending the evening in a sweaty sprint that the audience loudly approved, as it tends to with such florid displays. Review: Schwarz ushers in world premiere at Seattle's summer chamber-music festival 2010-07-29T20:33:00Z Nothing so fevered or florid colors the DailyMail.com, the U.S.-based digital outpost of the venerable British newspaper. The most glowing stories about Trump run in tabloid media. Why the romance? 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Season 1 suffered from florid dialogue and stereotyped characters, especially the women — but when it connected, especially in Matthew McConaughey’s performance as the haunted Rust Cohle, it was breathtaking. Review: ‘True Detective’ Circles Back, Flatly 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z But his two comrades took a pass on the chance for florid, and perhaps un-English, regrets. Amis, McEwan and Rushdie Properly Celebrate the Not-So-Proper Modern British Novel 2013-07-23T21:50:39Z Like Magid, I listened to the debate, which was conducted in Spanish, on my headphones via a real-time and occasionally florid translation. What Happened After Mexico’s Greatest Architect Was Turned Into a Diamond 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z There is guile and nuance in these songs, but also a florid, wailing melodrama capable of turning skeptics into addicts. | 'Passione': Soaring From Poverty All the Way to Ecstasy 2011-06-21T22:19:30Z They’re spouting florid language about how we must act, or else face some vague but certain apocalypse. The Democratic debate is happening at ‘ground zero’ for rising seas. Could the climate candidate get a word in edgewise? 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Thomas’s appreciation for over-the-top, prime-time-soap-opera-style entanglements — he went to school in Austin, Tex., and surely studied the florid TV show “Dallas” — also remains intact. Movie Review: ‘Veronica Mars’ Returns, on the Big Screen This Time 2014-03-13T22:07:42Z They hewed more to limestone than brick and were less florid and more rectilinear. Five decades after arriving in Georgetown, Gordon Riggle is still shaping its gardens 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The concert finished on an explosive note with a dazzling rendition of the Tarantella from “Venezia e Napoli,” which illuminates Liszt’s florid side with an avalanche of arpeggios, trills and gaudy cadenzas. Music Review: Liszt, the Chick Magnet, Tickled Ivories and More 2011-02-04T22:29:41Z In florid prose, Hendrickson recounts countless episodes tangential to Wright’s life or work, meandering onto all manner of occasionally interesting terrain. Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Nell Snaidas, the soprano, gave an emotionally charged reading of Scarlatti’s chromatic score, using carefully controlled dynamics and florid but thoughtfully applied ornamentation to evoke Orpheus’ desolation as it is transformed to determination. Music Review: The Link Between Love and Madness, Explored on a Small Stage 2011-01-04T01:15:03Z So while it may get a decent amount of nominations, not least for Quentin's typically florid screenplay, its actors probably stand a better chance of accolades than the film they star in. Oscars 2013: Runners and riders 2012-12-23T00:07:44Z The 1st Irish Theater Festival begins this season with Dylan Coburn Gray’s “Boys and Girls” at the 59E59 Theaters, a florid account of a night in Dublin. ‘Boys and Girls’ at 59E59 Theaters 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Morgan will also put his florid writing skills to use on a weekly column in the UK-based Murdoch tabloid The Sun, and the U.S.-based New York Post. Piers Morgan will be back on TV, returning to the warm embrace of Rupert Murdoch 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The Christian Dior florid New Look, giving women back their curves and flounces after the war years, was pitted against the lofty sculptures of Balenciaga. Battle of the Champions 2012-09-26T16:12:13Z As the movie jounces along on florid pronouncements that overstate the obvious, “Fathers and Daughters” defies credibility and insults the intelligence. Review: ‘Fathers and Daughters,’ a Sappy Tale Unredeemed by Star Power 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z This “Henry IV” may be cold-eyed about the world of realpolitik, but it values the warm-blooded life that courses within as much as Mr. Allam’s florid Falstaff does. London Theater Journal: A Double Double Bill 2010-07-28T15:51:00Z The florid, brassy arrangements of his most famous hits are nowhere to be heard on a record that doesn’t waste a note. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Korn, Currensy and Tom Jones 2010-07-26T00:05:00Z Within a few years, styles became increasingly baroque, entire flanks of subway cars sheathed in florid top-down murals, hurtling the city’s overlooked periphery into its pulsing center. ‘I Have to Get That’: How Henry Chalfant Became a Graffiti Ambassador 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z It is the century-old Mountain View Mausoleum in Altadena, Calif., an overlooked cousin to the storied Forest Lawn, where Hollywood legends are laid to their final, florid rest. | Ghost Dance 2010-11-23T22:15:00Z Captain Hook, historically, is a florid schemer who talks like Oscar Wilde and combines the Machiavellian glee of Snidely Whiplash with the outfit of Captain Morgan. “Peter Pan Live!” and a Night of Protests 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Regarding the coloratura contortions of the florid baroque and bel canto repertory she champions, Ms. DiDonato said she learned from performing Handel that “if you don’t infuse meaning into it, it can be superfluous.” Joyce DiDonato Takes On ‘Maria Stuarda’ at the Met 2012-12-30T05:03:03Z Transitions between scenes are especially awkward on Derek McLane’s abstract barracks set and are sometimes further saddled with florid dance elements it might have been better to have a choreographer stage. Review: In ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ an Endless War Against Black Men 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The second, in A minor, is the opposite: florid lyricism dominates, but mournful contrition, captured in Pergolesi’s chromaticism, lurks just beneath the surface. Music Review: Sacred Works by Pergolesi at Church of the Epiphany 2010-03-29T21:11:00Z In one florid passage he recounts his life in Downing Street in 2006. Fiona Millar: 'His perceptions about people and acute eye for the comic make it a good read' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z The piano writing, nodding to the taste at the time for florid, virtuosic passagework, brims with brilliance and rippling runs, as well as captivating elegance and intricacy. Listening to the Piece That Made Chopin’s Career 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde even flounces briefly by in all his florid glory. Review | ‘Shadowplay’ imagines Bram Stoker’s inner life and his path to ‘Dracula’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z The Continental Congress sent along a florid letter, betraying the naïveté of a democratic nation by invoking every imaginable hierarchical title. ‘Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion’ Exhibition Opens 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Even the performances reflect the movie’s contours—Hathaway’s performance is merely lively and vigorous until, upon the florid outburst of fantasy, it turns whimsical, unrestrained, agonized, seemingly self-transformative. “Colossal”: A Monster Movie Hiding Ugly Romantic Passions 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z I wasn't even on the phone with George Takei for two seconds before he began lavishing florid praise upon me. George Takei: Is "Star Trek" fandom over? 2010-08-05T01:01:00Z But then we stumbled upon florid descriptions of the BAM in old Soviet Life propaganda magazines and were intrigued. The Other Siberian Railroad 2012-08-10T18:28:44Z Flashes of a gradual wardrobe change were being quietly modeled by guests at fashion week via exquisite florid embroidered sleeves or sequins that cascaded down the backs of flowing cloaks. Saudi Arabia Just Had Its First Fashion Week 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z By their standards, this makes it a relatively restrained visual performance, but the music compensates: huge, florid pop-rock, ripe with heavy metal and prog influences, the lyrics thick with conspiracy-theory jargon. Glastonbury 2010: the sounds of success 2010-06-27T19:30:00Z Her new album “Star-Crossed” is filled with expensive-sounding pop songs sung flat and plain — no florid residue of a try-hard voice forged in show choir, glee club or a televised singing contest. Review | Kacey Musgraves made a divorce album that sounds like easy-listening 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z But its furniture is almost too comfortable and too lovingly restored, and it is left to Damon to provide the tale's one properly unruly ingredient as the florid, preening ranger. True Grit 2011-01-04T20:38:08Z Christie Finn began self-effacingly, but quickly surrendered to the music’s florid impulses. Music Review: Idiosyncratic Pairings on a Wide Playing Field 2011-03-23T22:27:32Z The grunts and howls seem every bit as mannered as the florid diction of Olivier and Oberon, perhaps even more so. Movie Review: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ by Andrea Arnold, With Kaya Scodelario 2012-10-05T00:03:37Z Take a closer look at The Shape of Water, however, and its florid whimsy subsides into a stark, clear and eminently contemporary human parable, streaked with fury against traditional hierarchies of power in America. Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a much-needed ode to the 'other' 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z “It’s a bromance,” he said, lifting his shirt to reveal a florid tattoo across his back, one of several matching pieces he and Mr. Depp have. A Dark Prince Steps Into the Light 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z For the most part, though, the film combines flat-footed storytelling with florid and distracting technique, producing more bafflement than catharsis or illumination. | 'Miral': Hopes and Struggles in a Difficult Land 2011-03-24T21:53:01Z With its mother-of-pearl inlay, the headstock is still florid, but the body, whose sunburst top fades from burnt orange to cherry, is free of nonfunctional decoration. Art Review: It?s the Craftsman, Not the Singer or the Song 2011-02-10T22:57:32Z Lavishly appointed and stodgy as week-old Christmas pudding, “The Pale Blue Eye” is a pulpy murder mystery bristling with florid dialogue and supernatural flourishes. ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Review: Stolen Hearts and Tortured Minds 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z On the Republican side, Didion saw the influence and proliferation of "reactive angers" illustrating a "quite florid instance of what Richard Hofstadter had identified in 1965 as the paranoid style of American politics." Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux is vivid in Orlando’s ranting and ably dispatches the knight’s heroically florid numbers, while not effacing memories of Marilyn Horne. Music Review: On Paris Stages, Intriguing Vivaldi and Novel Wagner 2011-03-15T12:30:07Z The piece is dominated by the florid, fancy piano part: Whole stretches seem like a virtuosic piano concerto, with the violin supplying the equivalent of solo lines or ostinato figures in the orchestra. Review: Strangers and Familiar Friends of Classical Music 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Anthony’s pronouncements are florid and polished – and all Burke’s words. 'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Lonergan doesn’t fall into that trap—he crafts florid, funny, passionate, insightful dialogue for Lee and those in his family and social circles. Kenneth Lonergan’s Devastating, Liberating “Manchester by the Sea” 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Ms. de Kerangal’s long, rolling sentences pulse along in systolic thumps, each beat punctuated by a comma; they’re packed with emotional intensity and florid imagery, and they’ve been superbly translated by Sam Taylor. Review: ‘The Heart’ Offers Portraits in the Race to an Organ Transplant 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Mueller’s verbal dryness, amid the juicy statements, florid grandstanding, and indignant anaphora of his questioners, was like the rustling pages of an old book. In Search of a “Viral Moment” at the Robert Mueller Hearings 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Lapidus was best known for designing some of the most florid hotels in Florida, including the Eden Roc in Miami Beach. John Margolies, Photographer of Whimsical Architecture, Dies at 76 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The pattern and thrust of the dance — florid beauty erupting from casual walks — taps big, youthful emotion. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z No matter the topic at hand, Ms. Callaghan’s writing, whether in plays like “Roadkill Confidential” and “That Pretty Pretty,” or the cable series “Shameless” and “The United States of Tara,” is florid and highly flammable. Review: ‘Everything You Touch,’ a Brash Examination of Self-Image 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The disaster that opened at the Majestic Theater on April 4, 1964, had already been in florid trouble out of town. Attend the Tale of ‘Anyone Can Whistle,’ Then and Now 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" mural in the Sistine Chapel inspired many in its twisting cascade of Satan's fallen angels, who are being vanquished by a florid, sword-wielding St. Michael. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z All Things Return At Night is a florid fusillade that seems to starts at full pelt and continues from there. New band of the day (Ballet School 1,559) 2013-07-23T14:40:00Z In a single instant, you are admitted into another world, the vast and florid universe of the reef that goes about its own flamboyant affairs oblivious to the world above. Favorite Place: Sharing Paradise With the Barracuda 2012-09-07T17:12:11Z But Mr. McCormick’s plotting, with its florid back stories and unsurprising revelations, is ploddingly predictable. Review: A Priceless Violin, a Cut-Rate Caper 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The style is florid, and it works because it takes Hurston seriously. Review | Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Spunk’ gets revived with flair, and all of it has heart 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Poems are not made out of ideas, they are made out of words, Mallarmé told Degas, but there is something chilling as well as gaudy and florid in his embrace of words alone. The Poems in Verse by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Peter Manson - review 2012-06-15T21:55:09Z In both films, the dynamics of performative masculinity are on florid display, with men strutting their macho stuff to gain the approval of their male peers, even when they’re with women. ‘Burning Sands’ tackles the camaraderie and contradictions of HBCU frat life 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In two Handel pieces, florid lines flowed through her left hand with effortless accuracy and flair. Review | Marissa Regni is second fiddle no longer in Kennedy Center Chamber Players’ season finale 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z He started out on jungle, but he graduated to hip-hop and made his name as a "battle" MC, competing with other rappers to deliver the best rhymes, with a bias towards florid insult. Are you ready for the British MCs? 2010-07-29T22:34:00Z When Trevor Griffiths wrote this play in 1975, a standup comedian was most likely to be florid man with wide lapels issuing an offensive stream of racist and sexist material. Comedians 2010-04-21T21:35:00Z Working deftly in mixed media on paper on canvas, Mr. Reeder creates florid, shimmering vistas without needing much surface area. Art in Review: TYSON REEDER 2011-06-16T22:00:28Z This elaborate architecture could have felt florid, but the headings also help unlock each vignette’s function, like a brushstroke guiding viewers’ eyes around a painting. Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z He repeats his central question in increasingly florid terms — “Is it medicine, or unregulated snake oil?” Viceland, a New Cable Channel, Aims to Stand Out 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Although definitions of mannerism shift, the word is mostly used to refer to the florid style of painting that emerged in Florence in the early 1500s and permeated the Continent in the century that followed. What's on This Week Around the World 1461-08-09T05:00:00Z Certainly there have been great TV orators whose artifice was sort of the point, and the delightfully florid locution functioned as a sort of a viewer candy. 'True Detective' Recap: Big Blasts and Diminished Men 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z She did find the strength to post online two florid apology videos that failed to quell the brouhaha. The TV Watch: Cooking Up Redemption, With a Dollop of Denial 2013-06-26T22:10:13Z Painting with viscous oils on rectangular and diamond-shaped canvases, Mr. Hanson constructs florid, heraldic compositions traversed by grids, serpentine lines and curved and flat bands. Review: Philip Hanson’s Poetic Fragments, a Trippy Synthesis of Visual and Verbal 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Sidney is ethically adaptable, even sleazy, but with an underlying niceness that subverts the film’s relentless and florid cynicism. An Appraisal: Marvelous Invention of Movie Make-Believe 2010-10-01T23:18:00Z He crafts dialogue with the florid, evocative quality endemic to writers who get their start on pulp literature, wielding similes like brass knuckles. Trolled across concrete: why Mel Gibson's new film is a curious provocation 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Hoch emerges as a wry, likable Blackbeard, though he’s often the straight man for the florid activity around him. Review | The new musical ‘Blackbeard’ swashbuckles into rough waters 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z When she asked for some vegetables to nibble on, I fastidiously julienned a cucumber into thin slices, layering them atop one another in a semicircle on a florid porcelain plate. What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Being a Son and a Father 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The paintings are as florid and intricate as the setting is understated and plain. Tony Greene: Melancholy in paint, given new dimension at MAK Center 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z He wanted the speech to sound ancient and slightly foreign, but he was wary of sounding stuffy and florid, like a 1940s Robin Hood movie. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “These resembled Mexican wrestler’s costumes,” Lethem writes, “or items from a masochist’s toy kit, only purged of florid decoration in favor of the uniform sallow color of a Band-Aid.” ‘A Gambler’s Anatomy’: Meet the James Bond of backgammon 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z There’s some depression, and a little fighting, all of it wrapped in a smushy blanket of dreams and portents, floaty music and florid dialogue. ‘Grace and Grit’ Review: You Transcend Me 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Thanks to flowing wine, now a florid Languedoc red, and the shared table, the various, international diners were chatting amiably about esoteric topics: the best hotel in Tunisia, a good local address for tailored shirts. Choice Tables: Museum Restaurants: Where Art and Haute Cuisine Meet in Paris 2010-03-12T17:06:00Z In the second edition of the society’s publication, lengthy introductions, in florid prose, contextualized Barents’s quest while repeatedly questioning de Veer’s accuracy. ‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Beguiling and human describe the rest of “The Other Side,” which is often as visually expressive and narratively engrossing as the faux art film is visually florid yet stultifying. Review: ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Is Orson Welles’s Haunted Hall of Mirrors 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Ronald Reagan was president and the Cold War was in its florid final throes, but “Top Gun” wasn’t really a combat picture. ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Review: Will This Stuff Still Fly? 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Elena plays along, never indicating that she recognizes her husband behind his outlandish false mustache and eyebrows, florid accent and intrusive clanking sword. 'The Guardsman' at NoHo Arts Center 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z This score shows Rossini balancing the florid Italianate bel canto style with pioneering dramatic grandeur, setting the stage for the French grand opera era. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z After a convincing opening episode, “American Gothic” turns soapier and more florid in Episode 2, an effect, perhaps, of the long shadow of “Revenge.” Review: In ‘American Gothic,’ Another Rich Family With Secrets 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z A generation of editors and journalists, this one included, grew up with a view of fashion in the 1980s and ’90s that was informed by the distinctively florid voice of Ms. Klensch. Front Row: CNN Is Back to Covering Fashion 2011-02-16T19:31:17Z Ford sent Ms. O’Hara florid love letters she found discomfiting and once punched her in the face for reasons she could never explain. Maureen O’Hara, smoldering Irish beauty of movie fame, dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z But the florid colors and humor of the production are supplied by his accusers and co-conspirators. Staff picks: ‘American Dervish,’ ‘The Trial’ and cocktail flights 2013-04-17T22:00:52Z The brilliant divisions of Mr. Gago’s florid singing, like his long breath spans, are electrifying. 2010-01-12T07:42:00Z But planted within that fond look back are also the seeds of what was to come, seeds that the Kennedys themselves helped sow, wittingly or not, and that have now come into florid bloom. ‘Jackie,’ art and accuracy in a post-fact world 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, florid journalism and equally strident fundamentalism collide as opposing social structures wrestle for relevance. Paper Giants: Magazine Wars - TV review 2013-06-02T15:04:00Z Or perhaps not: on their debut album, Conditions, their lyrics tended towards windy portentiousness, so florid in its execution you felt like begging their pardon every other line. The Temper Trap: The Temper Trap ? review 2012-05-17T14:29:01Z Nicholas Ludford’s “Salve Regina” is a joyous tangle of long, florid lines with the occasional tangy dissonance illuminating a single word. Review: Singing the Lone Survivors of Nearly Lost Music 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Like the meadow, Left unattended, Overgrown, florid With fragrance and rye, Amid the harsh hum Of dirty flies. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XVII 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Shanley has taken the old playwright’s license and put a lot of florid language into the mouths of low-class characters. Review: ‘The Dreamer Examines His Pillow’ Talks of Love, Lust and Lots More 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z In fact the track, which along with the well-received Better Days is taken from the band's upcoming eponymous third album, is a brilliant combination of their florid debut and the contemplative soul of its successor. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – review 2013-07-21T17:15:00Z And he also mentioned Courrèges as an influence in the typically florid Milanese program notes, which is a lot of baggage for one brand to bear. Emporio Armani, Fausto Puglisi and Fay at Milan Fashion Week 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Might that also account for the relative lack of florid singing in French Baroque opera in comparison with Italian Baroque? Glyndebourne 2013: Hippolyte et Aricie - Baroque à la française 2013-07-23T14:35:12Z He’s the most florid of MPC performers, playing as many as three at once in unexpected combinations, using his feet and face in addition to his hands. Music: Lots of Beats, but No Drum in Sight 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z The show charts his progression into increasingly florid work — near-cryptic symbology woven into baroque, calligraphic abstraction, which he made nearly until his death in 2019. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Komsi negotiates the shamelessly florid vocal writing with matter-of-fact brilliance, musical good taste and not a hint of self-indulgence. Glière: Concerto for Coloratura Soprano; Sibelius: Luonnotar – review 2012-11-08T21:52:01Z By contrast, “Midnight Sun” felt strained, maybe because it’s too florid, lyrically and musically. Music Review: Spare Vocals Illuminate Emotions Underneath 2011-01-29T00:07:18Z Through his balletic gait and florid presentation, Mercury rubbed the nose of Live Aid’s global audience in a powerful brand of effeminacy, seducing them into adoring something they might otherwise view with contempt. When Queen Took ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ to Live Aid 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z A strong cast moved easily through Handel’s florid da capo arias and vigorous choruses. Music Review: Finding Many Ways to View One Myth 2011-04-05T20:52:21Z Long before I.P.A. became a cherished American beer style emphasizing resiny, citrusy American hops, there was India Pale Ale, a strong, bitter English style that inspired the American versions, but not nearly so florid. When a Summer Day Calls for a Beer 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z In general, the style is plain rather than florid. Poem of the week: From Longfellow's translation of the Divine Comedy 2010-08-16T09:35:00Z Near that florid funerary sculpture is a Byzantine communion tabletop from the fifth or sixth century A.D. Fine Art and Antiques Show at Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The metaphor of the biological clock sounded less florid than the metaphors that followed, but it evinced the same determinism. The foul reign of the biological clock | Moira Weigel 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The world is exactly as florid as the fantasist first imagined it to be. A Novel of the Horndog in Winter 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z But as that tight and high-minded stanza gives way to florid fantasizing — Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Dowland’s “Lachrimae” is cloaked in Byrd’s florid variations, as is the anonymous melody of “The Woods So Wild.” Music Review: Kenneth Weiss in Music Before 1800 - Review 2011-09-26T21:58:02Z Russell’s mise-en-scène, restrained by comparison with his subsequent films, is as florid as the material — rich in color and costume, and full of shock cuts. Erotic Energy Restored: ‘Women in Love,’ With Sex in Their Heads 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z For all the florid naming, the beers themselves seemed restrained, even polite, on the palate. In Charleston, Beer Gets Its Own Neighborhood 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Their style — spare, vernacular, direct — marked a break with the florid romanticism and mysticism of Dylan Thomas. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Prewitt handles Capote’s nostalgic first-person account with good taste and good sense: He buys into Capote’s florid style but treats Capote’s characters as earthy and real. Truman Capote done right in ‘Holiday Memories’ 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Gone, too, are Rust’s florid pronouncements, replaced by the terse, economical language of gumshoes and con men. True Detective: season two, episode one recap – The Western Book of the Dead 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Nicholas Phan, the tenor, and Joshua Hopkins, the baritone, also made strong contributions but were unsteady and uneven in Bach’s florid passage work. Music Review: Orchestra of St. Luke?s at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-16T23:46:53Z I am not speaking here of his much discussed hair, or even his somewhat florid skin color. Trump vs. the Disappearing Tie 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Then, like now, I found parts of Lovecraft’s work bewildering, so layered in florid prose that I would return to Poe as if to a lifeboat, thankful for his solidity. Something Wicked This Way Comes 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The sometimes florid originals, entirely absent from the home video version but happily reinstated here, help transform the picture. How the BFI gave Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden its rhythm back 2012-06-29T15:20:50Z His singing was interspersed with florid solos from members of the orchestra, so that the virtuosity spread across instruments and suggested a hero-singer of boundless gifts. Past and Present, the Orpheus Myth Makes Us Rethink Music 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z A stark seriousness of mood came through, but not enough of Mr. Mincek’s florid instrumental imagination — which meant that the Alarm Will Sound players were too often sidelined. At This New-Music Festival, You Can Count on Variety 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Bean, in the character of Alec Trevelyan, got all the best lines: florid and doomed boasting, plus taunts about Bond's easy womanising and his capacity for unfeeling henchman-genocide over the years. My favourite Bond film: GoldenEye 2012-09-26T08:00:13Z By 1887, the annual report of the Nebraska Dairymen’s Association was bidding a florid goodbye to the “sound dairymaid,” with her “full, rounded arm” and “sweet voice.” Our messed-up relationship with food has a long history. It started with butter. 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z This is a rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief. ‘The Premonitions Bureau’ Recounts Crowdsourcing the Supernatural 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z It’s a peculiar decision, considering the florid history of backstabbing between the two. ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 13: Of Family Secrets 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z This, then, is a cunning bit of dark humor: Dylan purports to explain the magic behind his music, but he’s really just revealing how susceptible devoted fans are to this kind of florid nonsense. Bob Dylan, Fanboy 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z In 2014, Vreeland’s grandson Alexander introduced a perfume house in her honor, giving the fragrances hyperbolic names in the style of her florid prose. This Summer, Smell Like Fruit Salad 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The orchestra does the heavy lifting in advancing the drama, including during many stretches of spoken dialogue, accompanied by a few solo instruments or a florid piano, or, at times, skittish symphonic bursts. Review: Leon Botstein Dusts Off a Surreal 1930s Opera 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Here, though, it feels as if the creative team was paralyzed rather than stimulated by their ambivalence and took refuge in a kind of florid obfuscation. Review: ‘jazz singer’ Looks to Complicate a Film’s Fraught History 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z The talk is often full and florid, causing the taciturn Krak to complain, “What is the virtue of incessant speech?” Theater Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Howard Barker, at Atlantic Stage 2 2013-07-17T21:11:30Z Wilson’s poetic approach to character gets especially florid with Caesar, the ironically named lawman played with a boxer’s snarl and stance by KenYatta Rogers. Review | August Wilson’s titanic ‘Gem of the Ocean’ sets sail at Round House 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z “Scandal,” which is entering its fourth season, is more Aaron Spelling than Aaron Sorkin, though even “Dynasty” at its campiest didn’t have quite as many florid fights and ludicrous conspiracies. Viola Davis Plays Shonda Rhimes’s Latest Tough Heroine 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But the opening scene, which culminates in a violent eruption, is totally unconvincing in both its abstract theatricality and florid turn into soap opera. After another brave attempt, Sondheim-Furth musical 'Merrily We Roll Along' remains a rutted road 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Zweig was, in many ways, an old-fashioned writer: His fiction relies heavily on plot, with some developments telegraphed long before they occur, and the tales he tells are often melodramatic, their language sometimes florid. Stefan Zweig, Austrian Novelist, Rises Again 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The more oppressive aspect of the Cirque aesthetic is the heavy layering of surging music, whimsical costuming and florid exotica. | 'Zarkana': Radio City Is Transformed Into a Cirque Tent 2011-06-30T02:01:16Z No florid philosophical twisting over her own thoughts. In 'The Iceberg,' Marion Coutts recounts the death of her husband and achieves something extraordinary 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Dominique Labelle used her flexible, burnished soprano thoughtfully in her dignified characterization of Angelica, and her florid ornamentation was often dazzling. Music Review: A Magician Pulling Strings to Prove a Point: Love Stinks 2011-08-16T22:00:31Z The prose throughout is both florid and overripe, ironically – or perhaps appropriately – tempered only during a series of quite lovely passages describing representations of Christ. Sketches of Spain by Federico Garcia Lorca – review 2013-04-05T16:40:01Z But what followed was far from a utilitarian compilation, with a series of florid descants, and elaborate arrangements of traditional carols like “God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen,” and “The First Nowell.” ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z But this album, Mr. West’s fifth, is a reminder of how single-minded he is and how musically gifted; it’s easily his most florid record, and also, oddly, one of his most stark. The Purpler the Bruise, the Sweeter the Song 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z If Powers’s prose sometimes sounded florid, that seemed a blemish worth tolerating for the emotional insight he offered on that quagmire 6,000 miles away. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z In one, an empty bottle sits on a beach towel beneath an umbrella, and over that image florid white letters advise, “Forget About Your Problems With Society.” What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is based on a novel by the Canadian writer Iain Reid, a spare and elusive story that provides Kaufman with a stable enough trellis for his own florid preoccupations. ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Afterward, Little Edie, with her upside-down outfits, florid, looping drawl and naïf-savant proclamations, emerged as a campy philosopher and gay idol. G’night Forever, Little Edie! Grey Gardens Is Empty at Last. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Piecing together interviews with Jackie, other relatives and the many, many friends of the gregarious Rob, Mr. Hobbs writes in a forthright but not florid way about a heartbreaking story. ‘The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace,’ by Jeff Hobbs 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Recently, on a solo holiday trip to Paris, I saw tangible beauty all over the city: in twinkling silver lights, the blackness of my coffee, the florid cemeteries hinting at a more immortal mortality. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Approached as a straightforward history, it's likely to irritate, to seem needlessly florid and kinetic. Wish You Were Here: England On Sea by Travis Elborough 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z Here was a band who knew just how good they were – Guy Chadwick's songwriting could border on florid, but the grandeur of the performances suits it to a tee. The House of Love: The House of Love – review 2012-11-22T23:00:01Z At 49, her voice shows slight signs of strain, and she did not attempt Cleopatra's most florid arias. Early music is still being reinvented 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z That's what "Star Wars" has always been about — if you look beyond the florid speeches about searching one's feelings. There's no hiding from it: The politics of "Andor" look a lot like the type troubling our world 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z These passages are blushingly florid but it's Sirees's light touch with his subject matter that lends The Silence and the Roar so much of its power. The Silence and the Roar by Nihad Sirees – review 2013-06-02T10:00:01Z They tell the story to a local newspaper that writes up the incident with florid enthusiasm. HBO's "Watchmen" trolls history and heroic whiteness in the most extraordinary episode yet 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z It's a recurring theme: no florid lyrical conceits, but an appealingly wavering vocal that still hits its marks. Best Coast – review 2012-06-20T09:22:24Z Senate that would lead to the famous congressional compromise over slavery later that year, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi delivered a florid floor speech that lamented the impending ruin of the nation. Was the Constitution Pro-Slavery? Jefferson Davis Thought So. Abraham Lincoln Didn’t. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Polenzani sang the original Munich version of the aria, replete with florid runs. Review: Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’ Shows the Met Opera at Its Best 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z So much so that, for all the strengths of her voice – a flexible instrument, as rich and resonant as you could want – it's really the unusual song structures and florid arrangements that stand out. SXSW 2013: The British are coming! 2013-03-12T12:36:00Z Link to video: Behind the Candelabra An outrageous, florid study of one of the most over-the-top people in showbusiness history. The best films for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:05:00Z And in an “Echo” Sonata by Biagio Marini, Ms. Huggett played the florid solo line, with Ms. Roberts and Mr. Mealy contributing the echoes from the wings, and matching Ms. Huggett’s timbres and gestures perfectly. Music Review: Juilliard Baroque With Violin Music at Paul Hall - Review 2011-09-29T21:33:58Z At certain points her diaries, teenage and florid, are made vivid through animated sequences. From Serial to Bryan Singer: why Amy Berg is the documentarian to fear 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z When we finished shopping, Pierre was cozied up to an Italian man with a florid face and getting a great neck rub. In France, Our Dog Has His Day 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z But he strayed a bit in the arias’ florid lines, and his manner grew overwrought, even for a mini-mad scene. Review: Ahead of ‘My Fair Lady,’ Two Operatic Pygmalions 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Instead she uses her approach to generate increasingly rich and even florid experiments in pure composition and color. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Here, Lethem captures the florid horror and the weird, nihilistic sense of possibility that arrived in the immediate wake of Trump’s election. In “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem Returns to Detective Noir for the Trump Era 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z It’s outrageously and unapologetically excessive in its R-rated violence and achingly awful in the florid bombast of its dialogue. ‘300: Rise of an Empire’: This violent sequel means war 2014-03-05T22:33:24Z Her technical agility and lyrical refinement were ideal for the florid bel canto repertory. Review: A Soaring Soprano Helps Bel Canto at Caramoor Say Farewell 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z The solemn, prickly, often lovely “Mr. M” muses on loss and love, distance and connection, as the strings swell sympathetically and the band channels smooth soul and florid countrypolitan. 2012′s best — so far 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z This sorry effort was directed and co-written by Madonna — the Lady Gaga of the '80s — but it's got the florid language and rigid schematics of a flop play that closed in Pittsburgh. Odd Couples at Venice: Freud & Jung, Wallis & Edward, Cronenberg & Madonna 2011-09-02T09:15:00Z There was nothing left but her inability to reconcile her despair and brittle pride with the florid hysteria of the act of murder itself. Reflections: Jean Harris’s Cautionary Tale 2013-01-04T21:45:19Z He refers to the florid dreams excited in the drug trials as “reflections.” The Design of “Maniac” Offers an Uncanny Imitation of Life 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z A fan of American genre movies, Mr. Congo is shown in the film graphically re-enacting how he strangled political opponents with piano wire or beat them to death, in scenes that are florid and horrific. The Carpetbagger: A Death-Squad Leader Feels Honored 2014-01-16T17:23:25Z His early rise to fame, as manifested in New York’s tabloid and glossy-magazine culture of the greed-is-good era, was fueled as much by her florid charisma as by his own heat-seeking swagger and ambition. Perspective | Without Ivana Trump, there would be no Donald Trump 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Butler enthusiastically embraces same in his more florid role as the sniping, wine-swilling Trey. | 'Olive and the Bitter Herbs': Co-Op?s Old Crank Finds a Fresh Spirit 2011-08-17T02:30:38Z There were a few hiccups in the Sunday show, but Karin Mushegain — an excellent singing actress — sailed through the title role with an assured performance of her florid arias. A fast and funny ‘Cinderella’ at Seattle Opera | Review 2013-01-14T07:10:25Z Reality itself can seem to bend in her grasp, in subtle and also in florid ways. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Seen against a velvety black background, this florid object seems as much the product of a weird dream as of sober, empirical description. Art Review: ‘Gardening by the Book’ Celebrates Rare Botanical Volumes 2013-06-13T21:26:09Z The ultimate clue, though, is in Melamid's signature: kitsch, florid and running like a comedy punchline across the bottom of each work. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z O, that this too florid performance would settle down. Review | Kahn’s final ‘Hamlet’ at Shakespeare Theatre is off-key 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z He was highly regarded in both Scotland and the German-speaking world, where his fondness for florid lines and Japanese-inspired designs synced well with tastes at the time. Restoring a Charles Rennie Mackintosh Architectural Gem From the Ashes 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Such florid space-rock tendencies demand a broader canvas and a more colourful sonic palette – just ask Muse or their prog-rock forefathers. Klaxons: Surfing the Void 2010-08-19T14:29:00Z Atmospheric spaces are inhabited by a visual vocabulary of ambiguous signs, florid emblems, daubs, spillages and filigree embellishments. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z He uses the plot as a trellis on which his sometimes florid characters can bloom, even as their choices quicken and thicken the plot. ‘Dead for a Dollar’ Review: How the Western’s Done 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Intentionally or otherwise, Rice had provided a useful, if florid, portrait of the pain of coming out as gay. Perspective | Anne Rice changed vampires for the better. And helped her fans become their fuller selves. 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z It is by turns lurid, humid, florid, languid and stupid, but it is pretty much all id all the time. Movie Review: ‘The Paperboy,’ by Lee Daniels, Stars Nicole Kidman 2012-10-04T12:00:00Z The sense of a place frozen in time may be why the period setting must be gleaned more from the florid, twangy dialogue than from production design. ‘The World Made Straight’ Adapts a Ron Rash Novel 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z There’s a long, florid history of tabloid excess in Britain, hardly restricted to the Murdoch-owned papers. ‘Hack Attack,’ About a Rupert Murdoch Paper’s Trials, by Nick Davies 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z A generation of editors and journalists, this one included, grew up with a view of fashion in the 1980s and '90s that was informed by the distinctively florid voice of Klensch. Vancouver's Alina Cho brings fashion back to CNN 2011-02-17T04:37:52Z The language may seem a bit florid at first – a little too "historical novel" – but set all snobbery aside: this is wonderful, scholarly, top-flight stuff. The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z The language of that piece was florid, even lyrical, so the new one is far more conversational. Exploring That Old Knee-Slapper, Suicide 2011-01-06T22:13:28Z Mr. Goggins grounded the pulpy twists with an understated portrayal that mixed the series’ florid dialogue with an unhinged ambiguity. Television: A Son of the South With Many Accents 2011-01-30T02:30:04Z The first “Delirium” single, “On My Mind,” produced by Mr. Martin, is a jumpy midtempo track on which Ms. Goulding’s florid trills are edited down to a high-pitched clip. Ellie Goulding’s Cordial Breakup With Electronic Dance Music 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The architect Charles McKim rejected the florid, multicolored, Victorian Gothic style of Memorial Hall and instead turned back to the colonial Georgian-era buildings as his inspiration. The Gates at Harvard Have Stories to Tell 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z He uses florid language, like “beautiful” and “perfect,” and says he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un “fell in love.” Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Sharp, who has a handsome face, floppy hair, and good posture, wore an olive-green wool jacket and a beige sweater with florid cuffs and collar. The Screening Room: “The Kármán Line” 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “When you read the letters — and there are two thick volumes — you realize he is much more fragile, more florid, sometimes obsequious to rich people, a bit stalker-y to women, often depressed.” Alan Cumming Uses Dance to Get at the Truth of Robert Burns 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Quintessentially Irish, however, O’Sullivan’s ghost welcomes the opportunity to engage rather than spook us, employing her florid gifts of gab and storytelling. A one-man show about a horribly disfigured woman: Pat Kinevane's riveting 'Underneath' 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z This biography comes to weird, florid life in its middle sections. Review: Harry Crews’s Sense of Menace in Writing and in Life 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z She sang a wide range of roles, but her husband and long-time collaborator, the conductor Richard Bonynge, was convinced that her future lay in the florid passages of the coloratura repertoire. Opera great Joan Sutherland dies aged 83 2010-10-11T17:15:00Z It used to be cute, though, to hear him compensate for his lack of polish and couth by using ridiculously florid language when a one-syllable response would do. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Along for the ride, too, is Tristan Tzara, one of the founders of the dada anti-art movement and here played to florid perfection by Seth Numrich of “War Horse” fame. Review | Denzel Washington’s big star turn leads a strong ‘Iceman’ cast on Broadway 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z A certain florid approach to arrangements and an atmosphere that could perhaps be described as overheated. New band of the day: Fyfe (No 1,464) 2013-03-04T16:34:00Z That was not a florid racial stereotype but one of the more ferocious parodies in recent American cinema. Octavia Spencer’s Horror Movie, “Ma,” Is a Misfire Fit for the Moment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Similarly, research presented at the American Association of Wine Economists conference in 2013 showed that reviewers reserve florid prose for expensive bottles and use simpler, more pedestrian language to describe Two Buck Chucks. Is There a Better Way to Talk About Wine? 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Over the years I’ve tried to sample as much of that bounty as I could, from cozy British mysteries to florid Asian soap operas and everything in between. The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z I saw the new king marching in the street just a few feet away, his florid face a mask of grief and determination. An American in Queen Elizabeth's funeral queue: Why I went, and what I found there 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Outside the church, Byrd wrote florid music for the virginal, and pioneered the consort song, a precursor to the lute song. William Byrd: An Essential English Composer for Four Centuries 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z He grew to know, and understand, the kind of florid characters who would later populate his fiction. S.A. Cosby, a Writer of Violent Noirs, Claims the Rural South as His Own 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z His style was florid and he developed the camp gothic look he is still working today. Russell Brand: messiah or very naughty boy? 2013-06-15T23:05:40Z But he was incapable of physical involvement; his affection for one friend of that era would be expressed through “long, earnest, fully clothed embraces, chaste kisses and florid talk of the Hellenistic ideal of friendship.” Books Of The Times: ?A Great Unrecorded History? of E. M. Forster by Wendy Moffat 2010-05-17T22:28:00Z That's what makes the superhero genre — for all its excesses, and annoying cultural ubiquity — such a fascinating, florid window into the national psyche. The Amazing Spider-Man and the iron law of the superhero genre: less is more 2012-07-04T19:29:29Z Since then, the pharmacological spectrum has only become more florid. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z He is florid and emotional in one scene and imperturbable in the next. The People v. O. J. Simpson Will Be with Us Forever 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The micro-trailer introduces the trio in a scene that features florid World Cup commentary and various food items being transformed seemingly because Whittaker’s new Doctor is incoming. Gone in 40 seconds: what did the Doctor Who trailer tell us? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z He has slowly been moving out of his comfort zone in the florid bel canto repertory, toward roles that require more weight and carrying power. Review: ‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Met Opera 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Pinker doesn’t believe he has much hope of reaching the anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists who indulge in the “florid fantasies” of QAnon. In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z She had some good reasons: Her young voice was lusher and more velvety than most Lucias; the part’s florid coloratura was difficult for her; her upper range was insecure. ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Marlin fan, florid drain aroma, no molar, nomad-on-lam; mania for mom, a minor, an animal, or a minor animal mom. Style Invitational Week 1374: ‘Versus’ verses 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z While the blithely unworried are hindered by too little imagination, the florid fantasies of QAnon show that some Americans are beset by too much of the same. ‘How Civil Wars Start,’ a Warning About the State of the Union 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z The screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and the director David Fincher seemed, at first, like an odd pairing — a shotgun marriage of florid dialogue to a moody, sensual visual style. Stream These 9 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix in July 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Daniel Norman traces Joshua's development from anxious stripling to grand elder statesman, though Handel's florid coloratura rarely sits easily with the tenor voice. Joshua – review 2013-05-01T12:55:42Z But consider too some less obvious choices that ponder, in entertainingly florid style, the sacrifices and betrayals that theater folk make in the name of their Art. Week Ahead: Aug. 1-7 2010-07-29T14:33:00Z This book is at its best when grounded; when it mixes fact with more florid expression. A Case for the New Jazz Sound That Will Inspire Playlists 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z A comparison of his original 1894-95 version of “Puberty,” moody and tightly brushed, with the florid Expressionist 1914-16 reworking in the show, says a lot. Review: The Darkness and Light of Edvard Munch’s Work 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z She gestured in a florid way that I understood was to evoke the ineffable soul of the enterprise. 2010-02-11T06:20:00Z Her taut yet florid performance earned an Oscar nomination, for Best Actress. What to Stream: “Afterglow,” a Melodramatic Spotlight for Julie Christie 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z In both cases, Calderon’s spare touch triggers an oddly florid effect. At Kucera Gallery: Mark Calderon, Sherry Markovitz 2013-05-30T19:45:07Z One might expect a poet’s prose to be florid, or at least highly metaphorical. Review | Carolyn Forché’s most famous poem is a grisly look at a war-torn nation. Her memoir goes deeper. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Quibble with its florid excesses if you like, but there’s no mistaking that this “Raisin” — bizarrely, the first in the company’s nearly 70-year-history — is a crowd-pleaser. Review | A plump ‘Raisin in the Sun’ at Arena 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z What distinguishes the adaptation of “The Bartered Bride” is the florid, flamboyant realization of its comedic spectacle. What to Stream This Weekend: “The Bartered Bride,” A Brilliant, Rarely Seen Max Ophüls Opera-Based Musical 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z MacBeth's language is beautifully melodic: the stanzas unfold like operatic arias, becoming more florid and complex in thought as the poem develops. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z Sprinchorn’s broad, squarish canvas dominates the arrangement and the shapes of the other pieces — smaller, narrower — and their less florid colors emphasize that fact. A Dollhouse You Could Call Home 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Occasionally, the florid melodies combine with a hint of waywardness in Parks's vocals to leave you feeling as confused as Beach Boys' vocalist Mike Love apparently was by Parks's contributions to Smile. Van Dyke Parks 2010-06-21T21:01:00Z In other words, she can play a power figure or a florid wreck. David Thomson on Helen Mirren 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z Give the actors an A for effort, even if the clichéd, florid writing sometimes overwhelms them. Review: ‘A.D.: The Bible Continues,’ an NBC Mini-Series 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z She vacillates between near catatonia and a bubbly, unrealistic optimism, and the movie has several florid but threadbare Broadway fantasy sequences. Movie Review: ‘Coming Up Roses,’ Starring Bernadette Peters 2012-11-09T01:36:08Z The books are morally ambiguous, and at times the glut of florid nastiness makes them sound worse than ambiguous: frivolous. Nazi Comb-Overs 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Henry James named it “a florid fairy tale.” Fiasco Theater Company Rides Shakespeare to Success 2011-09-02T19:00:54Z His florid dark looks were striking, almost startling. Ivor Novello, master of the musical 2012-08-03T21:55:11Z Mr. Mantovani, especially in the orchestral interludes between scenes, also crafts meandering musical lines for solo instruments that are often quite florid. Music: A Tortured Russian Poet's Twisted World 2011-04-05T13:30:06Z “Family” offers Mr. Perry’s signature ingredients: multiple subplots; a Southern setting; and broad comedy, florid melodrama and inspirational Christianity, tossed together with an almost slapdash élan. | 'Madea?s Big Happy Family': A Fractious Family With Cancer on the Agenda 2011-04-24T21:46:55Z In this case the ornamentation was so dementedly florid — spiral staircases, serpentine columns, stucco angels — that the building never got off the drawing board. Art Review: ‘Dürer to de Kooning,’ at the Morgan Library 2012-10-11T23:02:45Z Goikoetxea’s performance in the title role was superb; she negotiated the florid vocal lines with amazing finesse. Seattle Opera presents a superb ‘Alcina’ 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Yes, there are birds — not just the heron but florid flocks of parakeets. Hayao Miyazaki invites moviegoers to dream with him one last time 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Every lie, every con, every betrayal of wives or country seems to be seeping through his florid, puffy, fake-tanned face. Trump is ready for his close-up | Horsey cartoon 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z The florid phrases, the sideward glances, his instinct for theatricality. What it’s like interviewing the prime minister 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z At one press briefing, Price, “big, fat, florid and overpowering, drew a laugh from the President by an audacious remark,” New York Times columnist Arthur Krock wrote in 1914. ‘Fatty’ Price, the first White House correspondent, operated by ambush 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z He’d load up on high-flying similes and florid descriptions — of being “as empty of life as a scarecrow’s pockets,” of plants “with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.” 'The Big Sleep' made Steph Cha want to write fiction — and rewrite Chandler 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The embattled New York Republican’s florid fabrications about his family, education and business experience have made him an object of curiosity and fascination in popular culture and at the Capitol. George Santos dodges insults, jokes and snub to say ‘I love it’ 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Poe’s florid speech and arch manner, along with a witty and perceptive persona, help foretell the iconic writer he would become. Review: A striking look elevates Christian Bale murder-mystery 'The Pale Blue Eye' 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The humor often comes from the clash of florid language and contemporary references. How to improvise a wildly entertaining new Shakespeare play every night 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Surely one of them will prevent Donald Trump from being, through a third election cycle, the florid face of one of the two parties that since 1856 have framed American politics. Opinion | Why Doug Ducey would make a great conservative alternative to Trump 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Without armed intervention, no prospective relief will be easy to achieve in a country that has dissolved into chaotic violence and florid dysfunction. Opinion | How to help Haiti out of its meltdown 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Those in the crowd and those of us here observing them are witnessing first-hand the British constitution, florid in its decoration and freighted with history, exposed to a global sunlight like never before. Chris Mason: Vivid interactions between Crown and parliament 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z In scathing, often florid language, the report compared the board to a "pyramid scheme," a "self-styled illuminati" and a fish that "rots from the head down." Ron DeSantis’ school board coup: Critics say he “hijacked” Parkland grief 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Maryland state Del. Dan Cox, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, has been an active poster on Gab, one of the internet’s better-known and most nauseating cesspools of conspiracy-mongering, florid antisemitism and white supremacist hate speech. Opinion | Dan Cox’s now-deleted Gab-fest shows why he’s unfit to lead Maryland 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z And the writing, alternately terse and florid, isn’t elegant enough to disguise the sloppy storytelling. Review | Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’ gets a sequel — in novel form 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Among the Democrats, Westneat noted the several fervent lefties who are employing the florid rhetoric of class warfare to paint their more moderate primary opponents as corporate tools. Political fringe is well represented among primary election candidates 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z A: Even in a relatively healthy population, mental health challenges came up wherever we went and can vary from stress to more florid conditions that need continuing care. A disaster response expert reflects on health of Ukraine’s refugees 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Almost everything I read relayed his story in a kind of oldfangled, florid prose. The Matador and Me: Coming to Terms with My Famously Ugly Lookalike 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z Imagine a fragrant lemon grove overlooking the sea, with throngs of bright yellow lemons hanging like drops of captured sunlight on florid green trees kissed by the salt spray of the sapphire water. Make your own Limoncello for a tart sip of Italian sunshine 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The situation is similarly uneven with Danny Elfman’s aggressive score that dramatically oscillates between different degrees of florid excess — none of which ever fully manage to complement Multiverse of Madness’ sound design. Doctor Strange 2 gets lost in a tangle of fan service and half-baked ideas 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z This was on florid display in the mask mandate case. Opinion | Where did all the conservative hand-wringing over judicial restraint go? 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Witness the self-consciously florid dialogue, sometimes poetically heightened to the point of torture. Review: Robert Eggers' mighty Viking epic 'The Northman' puts the art before the Norse 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Barely two months after the paper’s owner and publisher, the L.A. empire-builder Harrison Gray Otis, had taken over the paper, he ran this florid apologia for the meager, capricious river: Why we turned the L.A. River into a freeway (for water) 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z But it will fall to the conflicted Cyrano to answer her deeper need for wit and poetry, ghostwriting Christian’s love letters with a florid eloquence that feels both selfless and self-indulgent. Review: Peter Dinklage earns your love in the snazzy (but not schnozzy) musical 'Cyrano' 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “A handful of florid assemblymen, wearing green hats, were reading Pat-and-Mike jokes into the record. I still think of the legislators that way.” Didion was unequaled at capturing California’s soul, its people and geography 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z And there’s no sign of a florid inscription that was supposedly carved into the box’s side. Time capsule found under Lee monument found to have books, envelope — but no Lincoln photo 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Tesson’s narration and florid commentary provide a few background facts in the early going. Review: Informed by majesty and wonder, 'The Velvet Queen' reveals the humane in nature 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Richard, who grew up in Louisiana when the Ku Klux Klan rode with impunity, has a bone-deep understanding of racism — at its most florid and deeply coded. Review | Will Smith delivers a ferocious, all-consuming star turn in ‘King Richard’ 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Messiaen provided florid descriptions of the movements, and in this one the reed warbler is the great orator of his local lily pond. Review: The crazy genius of playing Messiaen's 13 bird-inspired piano solos at L.A.'s Audubon Center 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Rivera’s florid but blunt language signposts a play that plunges from heightened urban satire into surreal nightmare, accompanied suitably by the transition from dusk to dark in The Williams Project’s production. The Williams Project’s ‘Marisol’ is an apocalyptic show for our apocalyptic-feeling times 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The Pageant chose Angelica’s florid representation from an 1840s bronze by sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye. Review: Celeb photographer Matthew Rolston's fabulously weird Pageant of the Masters portraits 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z In Malcolm’s 1997 book “Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession,”’ the pseudonymous Aaron Green drops his professional authority within minutes of meeting the writer and treats her to a florid display of neuroses. Appreciation: Journalist Janet Malcolm's work was a marvel, both chilling and provocative 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z “This, alongside other studies, is suggestive that there’s not a florid amount of virus in the brain in patients who have died,” said Thakur, lead author of that report. Scientists begin to unravel the mysteries of the coronavirus and brains 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z And imagine — imagine — all the florid interpretive dance numbers you could feature on the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, a setting that comes pre-loaded with Oscars history. Forget Union Station. The Oscars should be held at the Music Center 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z One is the reflexive attempt to divert attention from the florid craziness in their own ranks and own base by screaming “communist,” “socialist” or “radical left.” Opinion | Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Republican Perversion of ‘Freedom’ 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z For now, the government is largely contenting itself with florid accusations against Navalny and his aides, reminiscent of Soviet-era demonizing in state media of designated enemies of the state. For Putin, the most personal of challenges from a determined political foe 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z But the message on occasion gets muddied by the governor’s loquaciousness, and lost in florid, overly rosy and vague Silicon Valley corporate jargon. Newsom's COVID-19 briefings often leave more questions than answers, some officials say 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Written in florid cursive lettering, the invite said the restaurant was considering taking reservations for a speakeasy-themed dinner party “inside,” if there was enough interest. Beverly Hills restaurant apologizes for New Year's Eve dinner invite amid backlash 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z All that florid interpretive dance has to go somewhere. Forget Union Station. The Oscars should be held at the Music Center 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Kingdoms, by thee, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour not their own; At every draught more large and large they grow A bloated mass of rank unwieldy woe. Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The charter is an extraordinary document written on a strong but supple sheet of goat skin in florid Latin. The Belgian 'hero' who invaded UK fishing waters 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the fine Monday night after video of the wedding — and a florid account of the event and extensive efforts to conceal it appeared in a Hasidic newspaper — drew backlash online. $15,000 Fine After Secret Hasidic Wedding Draws Thousands of Guests 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z That was on florid display in the White House briefing room on Thursday night, when Trump claimed, without any basis, that he had won the election. Opinion | George Conway: A presidency fueled by lies finishes with the worst of them all 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z The op-ed is written in an arch, florid voice that sounds nothing like Trump. Donald Trump called voting by mail "refreshingly democratic" in 2000 New York Times op-ed 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z We the people have unwittingly become surrogates for a known misogynist, with a florid history of sexual impropriety, when he smeared a journalist because she had the temerity to speak up. Column: William Barr is trying to make Trump's misogyny officially 'presidential' 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z If Cummings couldn’t obey this, even with florid infection in his family, how much harder will it be to convince others not infected? The Cummings debacle has exposed Boris Johnson's weakness and dependency | Polly Toynbee 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z In Italy, the nation’s civil protection chief, Angelo Borrelli, said almost apologetically at the beginning of the outbreak that the country’s “very florid, very expansive” social life needed to stop. Europe bids adieu to cheek kiss in coronavirus era 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z “There’s no stained glass, just Victoriana: ‘The grained woodwork, the ornamental mirrors behind the bar, the cast-iron fireplaces, the florid ceiling stained dark yellow by tobacco-smoke, the stuffed bull’s head over the mantelpiece.’” It is not just loved ones I miss, but the joy of hanging out with casual friends | Zoe Williams 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z No doubt the president’s florid narcissism explains part of his reaction. Opinion | I usually ignore all Trump’s tweets. Not this one. 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Vienna’s slightly earlier plague column is even more florid. Commentary: U.S. should build a memorial 'plague column' for COVID-19, but where? Here's an idea 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z By contrast, in the painting’s warm, dusky hues, Napoleon is a florid pillar of unperturbed, even heroic strength. Commentary: Napoleon has it all over Trump when it comes to spinning plague propaganda 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z But bold promises and florid assurances were made, day after day, from the White House and a zigzagging president who minimized the danger for months and systematically exaggerates what Washington is doing about it. Trump and his trail of unmet promises in coronavirus fight 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Yet, while traveling across the sun-dappled region of Inwater Marsh, for example, the profusion of colors on display more often stuck me as so florid as to be distracting. ‘Ori and the Will of the Wisps’ is an enjoyable sequel, but doesn’t build the original’s energy Markets correctly diagnosed a florid outbreak of federal fecklessness; the bottom dropped out of stocks. Opinion | Whatever happened to the CDC? 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z “We have a collective social life that is very florid, very expansive. We have lots of contact, we shake hands, we kiss each other, we hug each other,” Borelli told reporters. Friendly kissing poses European dilemma as virus spreads 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z But while the two leaders were together, it was all sunshine, long on florid language about the strength of their relationship and short on concrete results. Trump sees commitment to religious freedom in India as riots break out 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Baker also offered up one of his trademark, florid, pox-on-both-your-houses utterances of the elite conventional wisdom about the sad state of affairs in Washington today: Press Watch: NYT's Peter Baker finds it amusing Dems want despised neocon to testify 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z "The most florid liar in the race, someone the New York Times once euphemistically described as a 'gifted storyteller,' says she's going to criminalize lying," Carlson said. Tucker Carlson says 'fascist' Elizabeth Warren is pitching her own Ministry of Truth 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z A true folk purist, and a famously unforgiving critic, MacColl found her version overplayed and florid. Roberta Flack: 'My music is my expression of what I feel in a moment' 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z A long, florid play, “King Arthur or The British Worthy,” centers not on Camelot but Arthur’s Saxon campaign. Review: King Arthur meets Trump and Superman in Long Beach 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z This is encouraging not because the nation should swap one form of economic illiteracy for another, replacing a florid, angry protectionist with a florid, angry socialist. Opinion | In 2020, will Democrats embrace vanilla? 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z In another departure from the florid norm, its characters use microphones to converse in the style of a poetry slam or rap battle. Why James McAvoy's Bergerac ditches the Cyra-nose 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Staff saw him there often and recalled a man with a slightly florid complexion who did not make conversation or eye contact, who had a favourite computer booth that offered a little more privacy. The making of a bedsit Nazi: who was the man who killed Jo Cox? 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Don’t let its florid, mouthful of a title mislead you: “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open” is a film that’s as urgent and unpretentious as it is remarkable. Review: A tale of two women, ‘The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open’ is remarkable 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z All those florid fabric swatches, proliferating curlicues, Moorish arabesques, celebrations of Grandma’s wallpaper and crystal doorknobs, bright colors, polka dots and plaids were all just — well, just too much. Review: More is more. Why the 'Pattern and Decoration' show at MOCA is pure pleasure 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Members of the House marked the moment with typical rhetorical excess, bombastic silliness, and florid invocations of the Founding Fathers. “He’s No Mr. Nice Guy”: Impeachment Comes for Trump 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z A florid list to which we must now add “horrified.” How horror took over television 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z No florid swirls of taffeta, music and banquet spreads that many quinceañeras now feature. Perspective | A new American tradition — the double quinceañera 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “Her voice is brilliant with ringing high tones and a sparkling smoothness in florid passages,” wrote a critic for the Evening Star. Perspective | Remembering when Lillian Evanti took the opera world by storm 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Sometimes it’s accompanied by shouting text and florid punctuation. Review: Lari Pittman's extraordinary 'Declaration of Independence' at the Hammer Museum 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z He engaged in a florid display of disrespect not only for the Supreme Court, whose decision he dismissed as “wrong,” but also for Parliament, and for the democratic principles that both institutions represent. Donald Trump and Boris Johnson: A Tale of Two Crises 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z His florid face and restless malice haunt its every meeting. Nigel Farage is the malign spectre haunting Boris Johnson’s new government | Nick Cohen 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z Amber, whose house it was, had an organ, which she played with big florid hand gestures and a big florid smile; Hank had a trumpet, and Jim a ukulele. “Uncle Jim Called” 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Shannon plays Johnny with all the immaturity and boyish selfishness that accompany florid gestures like these. Terrence McNally in the Age of #MeToo 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z He called Mr. Max “America’s painter laureate” and started in on a sales pitch for “Umbrella Man,” a florid silhouette of the back of a bulbous man in the rain. Dementia Stopped Peter Max From Painting. For Some, That Spelled a Lucrative Opportunity. 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Morgan has always loved fish, and the office, in a departure from Coppola’s vision, contains two extremely large fish tanks, each of them florid with neon plants and dangerous-looking creatures slipping around in dark water. Tracy Morgan Turns the Drama of His Life Into Comedy 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z And then there is the once popular, now defunct tradition of male castrati gushing out florid Handel arias in the upper echelons of the human vocal range. Trans woman to play Don Giovanni in historic moment for US opera 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The lie grew more florid in response to a one-word follow-up question: “Really?” All the president's men and women: how disobedient aides saved Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z There have been theories put forward in the press that turned out to be overstated or untrue, and the Mueller report undermines the more florid ones. Donald Trump’s Brush with Accountability 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Some of the extremists avoid using banks because they believe florid conspiracy theories in which Jews control international banking. Boundless racism, zero remorse: A manifesto of hate and 49 dead in New Zealand 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Of a piece with the usual complaints about welfare as a reward for laziness, it was called extreme, absurd and, in one florid instance, a “Communist Manifesto, 21st Century.” Opinion | Welfare for those ‘unwilling to work?’ It’s not as crazy as you might think. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Among socialists, he attracted negative attention for discursive essays he wrote in florid, wandering prose. Lyndon LaRouche Jr., conspiracy theorist and presidential candidate, dies at 96 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z His direction lacks rhythm and pace, and, as Hoffman says, the dialogue in his own movies grew florid. The Great Hollywood Screenwriter Who Hated Hollywood 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The speaker is as colorful as his florid ties. Order! Order! The sharp-tongued speaker of the House of Commons is changing the rules — and maybe Brexit. 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z This was in part because Roupenian wrote the story in a dry style that felt more like a piece of web content, a well-written Medium post, as opposed to using florid, architectural prose. Why Do We Obsess Over What’s ‘Relatable’? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z On 15 July 1965, NASA’s Mariner 4 probe sent back grainy images of Mars, revealing a forbidding surface that destroyed florid Victorian speculation in a trice. The Sun’s pull on the body, the global flow of people, and the robots that reach other worlds: Books in brief 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Glass half-empty progressives will also lament the fact that even criminal indictments and the most florid racism were no bar to election for several Republicans. Trump lost the House, but he lives to fight – and lie – another day | Jonathan Freedland 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Much of the data appears to have been written in one go by someone with a singular, florid handwriting. Emaciated, mutilated, dead: the mental health scandal that rocked South Africa 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Both are on full, florid display in “Blaze,” an absorbing, illuminating film about the late musician Blaze Foley. Review | Who is Blaze Foley? Ethan Hawke’s musical biopic introduces an unsung genius 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Helping create the film's impressive air of florid hothouse romanticism is the cinematography of Gabriel Figueroa, Mexico's premier cinematographer, who brought visual electricity to everything he touched. Discover rarely seen French film noir classics in vital American Cinematheque series 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z I was once publicly scolded, in florid Italian, for almost being pickpocketed by a child in Rome. Letter of Recommendation: Oklahoma City 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z I have no idea what prompted me to make this up but I like to think it speaks to my florid imagination and is not the mark of a generally duplicitous character. Sunflowers and Santa Claus: Guardian writers and readers on how their first memory changed them 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Known for his florid prose in decisions, Kennedy played a key role in framing constitutional law in early 21st century America. Who is Anthony Kennedy? Supreme court wild card was critical 'swing vote' 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z If the florid face of today’s snarling GOP wants to be renominated, he will be. Opinion | Can this libertarian restore conservatism? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z It has had an equalising effect on his work: On Voices, stories and anecdotes by BB King and Alice Walker and Barry Hannah rest alongside florid tales by mule traders and quilters. William Ferris: the folklorist who made black America immortal 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Oscar Wilde’s penchant for pithy aphorisms may be his most appreciated trait now, but “Dorian Gray” succeeds on a different level: florid, eerie and murky. Book-It’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ nails the sensual and spooky mood 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The book is a largely skillful mix of diligently researched detail and chatty anecdotes, all woven together without excessively florid Camelot rhetoric. Review | When an extraordinary collection of talent gathered at the White House 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z “The Nether” contains no enactments of sex or violence, but Haley’s vivid dialogue, which alternates between florid euphemism and gut-punch lines, should make your skin crawl. Meatspace: ‘The Nether’ at Washington Ensemble Theatre, a harrowing trip through the dark web, includes a trigger warning 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z After being florid and verbose, Lincoln made it spare and poetic. Opinion | The rhetoric of our era has reached its vile peak 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Language that florid could inspire a hip-hop musical. Exhibit at GWU museum shows how Alexander Hamilton rewrote the game 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Wilde’s penchant for pithy aphorisms may be his most appreciated trait now, but “Dorian Gray” succeeds on a different level: florid, eerie and murky. Book-It’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ nails the sensual and spooky mood 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The responses caricature the tendency of male authors to focus on the physical appearance of female characters, and the often florid language used to describe their bodies. Women savage portrayal by male authors 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The feature's visual simplicity ends up countering the play's more florid, flamboyant elements, keeping the lean but intense story more centered and accessible. Al Pacino interprets Oscar Wilde in companion pieces 'Wilde Salomé' and 'Salomé' 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The only flash of colour came from his florid and slightly sagging face. How many murders can a police informer get away with? 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z This painting is certainly vivid and unusual, but he's toned it down from the florid regalia of uniformed pageantry his portraits often employ. The Obama portraits cheerfully buck the trend of instantly forgettable presidential paintings 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z This painting is certainly vivid and unusual, but he’s toned it down from the florid regalia of uniformed pageantry his portraits often employ. Christopher Knight on how the Obama portraits redefine presidential portraiture 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z It is equally unfair to dismiss MI5, Britain’s security service, as one commentator did, as “florid and fruity” in the pre-war years. Decrypting the Cambridge Five 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z It was that they’d fully seen the florid whole of him and supported him nonetheless. Opinion | Donald Trump’s Radical Honesty 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The foulmouthed toddler of Fox’s animated series “Family Guy” is an un-potty-trained troublemaker whose florid vocabulary and diabolical machinations would likely get him kicked out of the Magic Kingdom. Disney has a wholesome, family-friendly image. Will acquiring Fox create a culture clash? 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Yet "Native Invader" marks a return in a sense to the florid but earthy voice-and-piano sound of early records like "Little Earthquakes" and "Under the Pink." Tori Amos is no longer a pop star — and she seems fine about it – LA Times 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Recently, as The Times prepared stories in which more than ten women accused Ratner of sexual misconduct, the lawyer sent the paper multiple letters filled with florid language and threats of litigation. Will Martin Singer's pitbull tactics still work in post-Weinstein Hollywood? 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z And his florid solo in “Before the Night Is Over” suggested he still takes pleasure in having mastered his instrument. Jerry Lee Lewis brings his classic songs — and his problematic legacy — to the Ace Hotel 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z When its lawyer hero isn’t citing legal precedent, he uses spectacularly florid language that reflects his unusual mental state. ‘Roman J. Israel, Esq.’ Review: Soul Practitioner 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Every year, in the run up to the festivities, back rooms and disused offices across the island are cleared out to make way for designers, seamstresses and the florid materials of their craft. 60 years of Carnival: How Antigua keeps tradition alive - BBC News 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z Insurers said there were "florid theories" about how he died. Alexander Perepilichnyy inquest: Whistleblower took out £8m insurance - BBC News 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z In his florid, self-aggrandising autobiography, and, indeed, whenever he felt like it, he made up stories at will, about his parents’ marriage, for example, or his authorship of works actually by others. Frank Lloyd Wright: fantasist or genius? 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z This lends male toilette its peculiarly florid, ingrown, underground flavour. 'I cut my hair every day': confessions of a (very) vain man 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z “He has great power, can run like a deer,” Browns manager Zack Taylor said in the florid sports language of the time, “and is one of the sweetest flyhawks in the league.” Roy Sievers, slugging star for Washington Senators in 1950s, dies at 90 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z But the attractive pair too often gets lost amid baffling flashbacks, clunky action sequences, incoherent double-crosses, a rogues’ gallery of stock bad guys, tone-deaf melodrama, florid narration and scads of hackneyed dialogue. Kazakh crime thriller 'Diamond Cartel' is a best-forgotten mess 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Macron’s carefully crafted personal story is worthy of the florid, unpublished novels he wrote as a teenager. Emmanuel Macron: the French outsider who would be president 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z The florid prose is intentional, says Overman, meant to coax people outside their comfort zones. A love affair with French restaurant newcomer L’Oursin 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z It is Anna whose florid, overheated jealousy, fed on fantasies of Vronsky’s infidelity, dooms her to the womanish “lesser states” that Kitamura’s narrator so dreads. Katie Kitamura’s War on Affect 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z False humility aside, these are adjectives that generally apply to Patrick Harlow’s spoofy adaptation, so broadly imagined that it confuses Hitchcock’s lean wrong-man thriller for a brand of florid film noir. Village Theatre’s ‘39 Steps’ takes Hitchcock for a frantic ride 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z There was no higher calling, no sense of a greater purpose, no florid imagery or impassioned idealism. Trump's first speech in office was unapologetic appeal to nationalism | Gary Younge 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z “He’s so florid and so mesmerizing and interesting or appalling, depending on your point of view,” Carlson said. President Trump will be a boon and a challenge for the cable news business 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z More florid forms of synaesthesia, in which disparate sensory experiences are blended, are found in only about 2–4% of the population. Listen with your eyes: one in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The experts who examined Montgomery post-conviction found that unknown to her trial jury, her upbringing had left her suffering from florid psychosis, bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Death row: the lawyer who keeps losing 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z But regardless of how florid the prose is, Wilson’s endorsement is going to resonate with locals. Chris Hansen makes brilliant completion by adding Russell Wilson 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z But for me, the florid sentimentality of the song is mawkish. At 5th Ave, an updated look for ‘Man of La Mancha’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z His Hebrew was tinged with a Polish accent, and his florid rhetorical style was at odds with Israeli directness. Shimon Peres, Israeli statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 93 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Sometimes, the most flattering compliments contain no superlatives or florid language. Seahawks’ Doug Baldwin creates unity off field, separation on it 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Or so he said in a florid letter to an unlikely pen pal — Piedad Córdoba, then a Liberal Party senator and a victim of a paramilitary kidnapping. The Secret History of Colombia’s Paramilitaries and the U.S. War on Drugs 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Sadly, it was a spectacular display of florid insanity for my then-young children, to whom I often stress important character traits such as resilience and optimism. Boxed In. Freaked Out. A Claustrophobe Navigates a Crowded City 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Hill’s appeal, whatever the genre, is in his instinct to punctuate long stretches of smoothness with florid bloopers. Jonah Hill Is No Joke 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z In a vacuum, this might seem like a florid, Disney Channel response from an otherwise fierce defensive back. Seahawks’ Kam Chancellor puts team first this year 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z It goes into florid detail about the Gang of Four’s alleged plot to steal away the assets of the company. Hyperloop One Files Counter-Suit Against Co-Founder 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Gingrich is a national figure with a similar fondness for florid partisan attacks. Why Donald Trump Picked Mike Pence 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z In a statement that was short on technical specifications but packed with florid description, Rolls-Royce promised an interior made only of “the most precious and contemporary elegance”. Rolls-Royce unveils first driverless car complete with silk 'throne' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The tone can range from florid to juvenile, pleading to poisonous. Donald Trump’s Secret Weapon: Letters of Love, Flattery and Revenge 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z There was a gallery for posting photographs of clouds, a membership form and a florid manifesto. The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z But others might see a more florid canvas of envy and antipathy, Tom Wolfe’s New York, a Staten Island Ferry of the mind. Cruz and Kasich (and the G.O.P.) Give Up on the Northeast 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Obama, who is incapable of speaking in anything other than full — and frequently florid — paragraphs, smiled broadly and used the moment to pay Merkel a compliment. International odd couple: How Obama and Merkel forged a special bond 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Mr Bashir says he will never again vote for the PML-N, whose leader is condemned in florid graffiti near the shrine. Bad moon rising 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Incensed at both efforts, North Korea’s propaganda machine has been outdoing itself with ever-more inventive and florid statements. North Korea threatens to ‘scorch’ South Korea’s presidential offices 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Her prosperous family had lost its wealth before the Communists came to power, but the Empress Dowager Cixi—whose passion for Peking opera shaped her epoch’s florid style—was a mythic figure to her. China’s Homegrown High-Fashion Designer 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Fruit art aside, her series of illustrations include the florid Orcunts and expressive Crotch Monsters. Forbidden fruit: why provocative art, blood oranges and Instagram don't mix 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z For all the florid rhetoric Tangshan is currently at the sharp end of a major crisis that is gripping the Chinese steel industry as Beijing grapples with the problem of massive over-capacity in the sector. China's smog-choked Tangshan goes green for six-month flower show 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Israel offers a florid illustration of how disastrously collective memory can deform a society. The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good | David Rieff 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z And I learned to absorb the rather difficult and florid styles of the 19th century, which helps when you're dealing with Russian writers or 19th century American writers. Craig Ferguson bonus talk: on TV, reading, Trump, America and more 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z As the Republican Party contemplates putting forward this florid face, the Democratic Party, clinging to Hillary Clinton like a shipwrecked sailor clinging to a spar, celebrates her Nevada achievement. Donald Trump relishes wrecking the GOP 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Reviled and beloved, florid and acerbic, loud, incorrigible and blunt. Antonin Scalia: man of his word who shaped America in life and in death 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Talking to the Guardian afterwards, he described his florid braggadocio as both a form of self-motivation and a theatrical performance. Kanye West: a 'brilliant madman' who speaks and acts in superlatives 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z The Vermont senator repeatedly grew florid and loud, even angry, while making his pitch, behaviors that echo and enhance with his calls for revolution. Debate's subdued Clinton, excitable Sanders hint at Democrats' different goals 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Chaika’s florid denial of these accusations, in which he hints at a CIA plot to discredit him, has since made him the laughingstock of Russia’s blogosphere. Pussy Riot's New Video Targets Corruption in Putin's Russia 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z A humid, knocking beat slowly morphs into something more florid and tropical; after two minutes, you’re shimmying in your chair and have no idea how you ended up there. This is your next jam: A$AP Rocky, Zayn, and more 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z After a florid breakdown, I’d start over as a locker-room attendant at a squash club run by Forest Whitaker/Morgan Freeman. Squash for the Midlife Slump 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The issue wasn't just that sound would be difficult to synchronise, but that the images themselves, often florid and painterly, would be terminally compromised by the "complication" of sound. How Germany's love of silence led to the first earplug - BBC News 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z The symptoms he exhibits are multiple, and florid: The overweening sense of entitlement. Donald Trump is the affluenza candidate 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Plenty of candidates don’t demand any florid letters of interest to work for free. Presidential candidates ignore the costs of unpaid internships 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s the difference between ‘Tonight,’ which is so florid, and ‘Cool,’ where he captures the inarticulate minimalism of the characters.” ‘West Side’ challenge: Staging a 1957 gang fight to thrill 2015 audiences 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z But his deeper racial agenda is regularly on florid display. The Escalating Slurs of Donald Trump 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z There are many delights in Welles’s European films—the knotty whimsy of “Mr. Arkadin,” the florid weirdness of “The Trial”—but Shakespeare elicited his best. A Hundred Years of Orson Welles 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Coe was a vice president for seven years under the Senegalese, to whom he paid florid tribute in August. Sebastian Coe faces questions over role in Eugene 2021 bidding process 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The Texas Senator voted for the bill to kill metadata collection, and in May he made a florid floor speech touting himself as a civil libertarian for doing so. The Decline of Antiterror Surveillance 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Not in the florid sense of the word, as in exceptional, but in the most literal one: it can’t be erased from memory. Intifada Childhood 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Sprouts like the one Yang bought are the most popular, explained Zhang, though there are more florid options — red mushrooms, sunflowers and red chili peppers — for those who want even more flair in their hair. China's fashionistas diving head-first into a new fad 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z The Oscar-winning film “Shakespeare in Love” portrays Shakespeare sending an aristocratic woman florid sonnets to proclaim his love and admiration. Five myths about William Shakespeare 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Amid florid pomp and extreme security measures, China on Thursday will mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II by staging a massive parade featuring tanks, aircraft and thousands of goose-stepping soldiers. China is rattling nerves as it prepares to strut its military might 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z They both spoke in patrician accents, with Buckley's eccentricities and florid vocabulary fodder for impressionists. 'Best of Enemies' shines a light on fiery Buckley-Vidal debates 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The hugely influential German historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann was typical in his florid veneration of Greek art. A Point of View: Why the row between Greece and Germany is like a lovers' tiff - BBC News 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Though his language may not have been as florid as Mr. Trump’s, it was another day of a Republican contender grinding out the politicking on his own terms. Amid the Donald Trump Show, Republicans Hit the Campaign Trail 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z For all his florid rhetoric, he is as disciplined a speaker as any in the presidential field. Ted Cruz Tries to Prove a Conservative Can Win 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z “Not that the economic situation was florid, on the contrary. But what determined their departure was the lure of the American dream.” Sicilian Town Tells Outsiders: Take Our Homes. Please. 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z I asked Heath if he had planned that for my benefit, and his face turned the rose of his shirt’s florid print. Can Politico make Brussels sexy? | Gideon Lewis-Kraus 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Defense lawyers are expected to call their own experts, who will argue that Mr. Holmes was delusional and in a state of what they called “florid psychosis” the night of the shootings. James Holmes’s Notebook and Insanity Debate at Aurora Shooting Trial 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Bowgen, in a florid red wig, preens and postures his way through the play, sputtering with jealousy and rage. Review of ‘The Liar’ at the Westport Country Playhouse 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Some of those commenting did not refrain from highlighting the night's more florid outfits with a mixture of astonishment and disdain. Met Ball: The view from China on the Chinese themed outfits - BBC News 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z But on Sunday, as guests prowl through her florid Brentwood grounds during the Garden Conservancy's Los Angeles Open Day tour, Newmar will receive accolades that are much closer to her heart. Julie Newmar invites you to dance into her private gardens 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Possibly America is doing its best impression of King Lear, sifting through a slew of increasingly improbable, florid protestations to glean Who Loves Us Most. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz secretly gave the same speech 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z When Halden opened, there was a wave of foreign news reports containing snarky, florid descriptions of the “posh,” “luxurious” prison, comparing its furnishings to those of a “boutique hotel.” The Radical Humaneness of Norway’s Halden Prison 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Though florid to American ears, they are familiar and respectful phrases to a people whose culture is dated in millennia instead of centuries, says Eyre, who is equally adept at plunging into modern-day Persian rap. Alan Eyre: State Department’s Farsi-speaking man at Iran nuclear talks 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z His disposition is exceedingly proper — the portly carriage, the trimmed white beard, the florid drawl — but he dresses in a rumpled manner that suggests a morning habit of mistaking the laundry hamper for the dresser. Building the First Slavery Museum in America 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The Chelsea, where many of her friends lived, was a natural ecosystem for someone with her florid tastes. A Vintage Life in the Chelsea Hotel 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Readers can follow the love affair as it blossoms through the florid hand of J. Edwin. Love letters in the wall: A historical mystery 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z The show often is propelled by the driving force of Mr. Ashmanskas, whose social-climbing Sidney swells in florid assurance along with his finances. A Review of ‘Absurd Person Singular' in Red Bank 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z She studied a photo of Diller on the display case, dressed in a florid pantsuit and brandishing a cigarette holder. The Cannabis Queen of Beverly Hills 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z At seventy-five, he has the florid, bulbous mug of a cartoon flatfoot, if that flatfoot were descended from Lithuanian Talmudists and six generations of Jerusalemites. Israel’s One-State Reality 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Lucha fans on hand that day knew to expect the fast-paced, aerial action and florid drama that the sport with often-masked competitors delivers. Mexican wrestling, reimagined, comes to weekly TV 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Bradlee was, by today’s standards, unchallengeable, and he was expert in the art of florid dismissal. Postscript: Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921-2014) 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The article is written in a florid style, with ornate references to the Koran, the Islamic holy book, and to Islamic teachings. Islamic State publication seeks to justify slavery and sexual abuse 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z That those turns finally send “Gone Girl” into such outlandish territory is very much in keeping with the book’s florid third act, here featuring a wildly miscast Neil Patrick Harris in a pivotal role. ‘Gone Girl’ movie review: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike star in straight-edged thriller At the hearing, there were acute questions and ludicrous ones, genuine concern and disingenuous grandstanding, florid preening and runaway egos, which is to say that many politicians were crowded into one room. The Secret Service is serving without protecting 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Subsuming the individual into the group—the me into The Who, say—is not something the most florid narcissists would permit. Kanye West: Narcissist of the Day 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z A helpful waiter hovers, pen ready and Iain Duncan Smith launches into florid Italian. Duncan Smith: Ready to sail into sunset? 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Last week North Korea’s deputy UN ambassador, Ri Tong-il, gave a press conference denouncing Washington in florid terms. North Korea Is Angry With America, Again! Why Has Washington Kept South Korea As A Welfare Dependent? 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Just when you thought you could no longer be shocked by Nixon’s willingness to abuse power, his seething resentments and paranoia and his florid anti-Semitism, another round of tapes emerges. Learning from Richard Nixon Look at Swoon: the music is florid, with all those chord changes, and the lyrics are nuts. Cult music heroes: artists on their unsung idols 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The outcome of this florid back-story is a game world that looks like Victorian London but features steampunk weaponry and a dash of mysticism. E3 2014: hands-on with the key PlayStation 4 titles 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Illiterate until age 13, he now communicated through endearingly florid emails and texts. A Lost Boy Grows Up 2013-12-04T10:00:12Z “She has a strong, clear soprano, which, though occasionally marred by a tremolo, is both agile enough for the florid passages allotted to Leonora and forceful enough for the dramatic ones.” Regina Resnik, Metropolitan Opera Star, Dies at 90 2013-08-10T02:47:34Z He did hit some brilliant shots, but he also hit too many tentative ones to avoid putting an exclamation point on the long, florid, Fitzgeraldian sentence that was Wednesday. Serena Williams Restores Order at Wimbledon 2013-06-27T21:15:19Z The LSE makes a florid fuss, drawing in more viewers and more publicity. An LSE lesson in attracting a Panorama audience 2013-04-20T23:05:47Z The happy ending suggested by that rather florid description, though, has not been without its shadows. Ledley King: life after football 2013-04-13T20:54:12Z Not to mention the temptation to link, with florid abandon, a moment of distinctly 1980s-style public violence with the ambient Thatcher mnemonics of the past week. Extreme violence in Millwall end has football fading into irrelevance 2013-04-13T21:01:10Z Instead, about 800 words of florid prose would drop; not necessarily what you were looking for 10 minutes before deadline. Letter: What the subs thought of Frank Keating's copy 2013-01-29T12:52:43Z Ms. Shaw's delivery of Coleridge's epic "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" - an achievement both fascinating and florid- is on view through Jan. 13 within the atmospheric depths of a venue well beneath Waterloo Station. IHT Rendezvous: What to See on the London Stage in 2013 2013-01-10T11:23:43Z After such an eccentric and florid broadcasting career, it would have been a mistake to expect McCririck to slip quietly into retirement. John McCririck burns bridges with Channel 4 over £3m ageism claim 2013-01-09T18:12:07Z Their frocks are florid flights of fancy, they mix fairytale with farce - and their bosoms are decidedly false. There's nothing like a panto dame 2012-12-17T04:29:04Z Another is when an older couple, whose florid style of acting does not fit into Tom’s play, resign themselves to minor roles. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Trelawny of the Wells,’ at F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater 2012-12-16T02:10:57Z Perhaps in his own mind, he pictured himself as one of the Founding Fathers, affixing his signature in florid hand to the Declaration of Independence. Ron Paul's Secession Blackmail of America 2012-11-26T16:39:21Z Variety, with its tongue-twister headlines and florid green masthead, was once Hollywood's bible, a must read every morning for the lowliest of agency assistants and the mightiest of moguls. Media Decoder Blog: In a Fire Sale, Penske Media Buys Variety 2012-10-09T17:28:23Z Terminal workers speak a florid corporate language of “space optimization” and “key performance indicators.” New York Area Longshoremen Seeing Jobs Dwindle From Automation 2012-09-28T15:03:14Z Environmental toxins leave even more florid traces on grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Opinion: Why Fathers Really Matter 2012-09-08T21:03:01Z But unimpressed critics contend Millet’s artistic conceit and florid prose rationalizing Breivik’s acts are little more than an apology advancing extreme-right doctrine. French Essayist Blames Multi-Culturalism for Norway Massacre 2012-08-28T23:05:23Z It is a grand, florid style that first appeared in Italy around 1600 when artists and architects burst out of classical rules to create emotive, dynamic images and overwhelming spaces. The Olympics remind us of Britain's baroque heritage 2012-08-27T10:48:54Z Forget some of the more florid digital lectures, pro tem. A message for Mark Thompson: don't listen to the doubters 2012-08-18T23:06:04Z On a recent afternoon, workers slipped bottles of limoncello into boxes adorned with a florid lemon-tree print, and wrapped plastic around cases of liqueur bound for Belgium. Italian Business Potential Thwarted as Crisis Persists 2012-08-10T21:18:53Z An oddball mix of history, reportage and genre pastiche, it is written in a self-consciously florid prose modeled on H. P. Lovecraft, the cultish writer of pulp horror fiction. Mitch Waxman, Tour Guide to Decay 2012-06-16T18:26:51Z “We too can create our Parthenons,” thought Sylvia, as she sank to earth in the florid elevator. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z "Why, he was a gay, slight, florid, young man." The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z He was a gentleman of forty now, grown somewhat portly and a little florid, but not too much so. 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