| 单词 | plummy |
| 例句 | “A dainty spot,” he said plummily, “fit for two such charming ladies; I shall, if you like, save you the trouble of glancing into the closet and under the bed.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Philby answers confidently, in the plummy tones of the English upper class. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Wish I’d brought a brolly,” she drawled in the plummy, educated tones of the Oxbridge colleges. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Old-fashioned boulevard comedy — bright, easygoing fare that doesn’t require the deciphering of plummy or crummy British accents — has more or less evaporated from the Broadway marketplace since the heyday of Neil Simon. | 'Relatively Speaking': ?Relatively Speaking? at Brooks Atkinson Theater ? Review 2011-10-21T02:01:14Z Last year's Tony nominees were nearly as white as this year's Oscar contenders, yet there was little uproar as one pale Brit after the next took home a statuette with plummy gratitude. Broadway musical 'Hamilton' could teach Oscar a lesson on diversity 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Cue plummy sounding newsreader: "I believe we're about to hear the first words of the first spaceman ever to land on earth." Readers recommend ? the results: songs with jokes 2010-09-02T22:31:00Z After giving it another sauté to evaporate the extra juices, its flavor was deep and plummy, and it became quick thick, like Smuckers. The absolute best way to make jam, according to so many tests 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Holiday anthologies are often as enticing as a re-gifted fruitcake — slickly packaged and sticky sweet — but “My True Love Gave to Me” is a plummy treat. A holiday story collection by YA fiction stars will delight readers of all ages “Don’t let your children get in the way of your life, darling,” she plummily urges her perplexed daughter when they reconnect. In ‘The Pursuit of Love,’ Looking for Liberation, Too 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z She does, repeatedly, in her posh, plummy accent. The Beautiful One: Prince On-Screen 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The comedy is driven by the onetime solidity of archaic British types: Colonel Blimps and academics with plummy accents, cap-tipping proles and Middle Englanders with lips so stiff they can hardly talk. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z He’ll do impressions: in between songs at his well-wrought show on Monday night at Carnegie Hall, he mimicked a plummy old voice coach and a hoarse great-uncle. Music Review: Chris Cornell, Solo, at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-23T23:03:46Z Although rumpled and scruffy, Mr. Williams had a plummy accent and a mellifluous speaking voice that served him well in a surprisingly busy film career. Heathcote Williams, Radical British Poet Who Helped Form Anarchist Nation, Dies at 75 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Appraising his own performance in an audio clip from a production of “Edward II” with Ian McKellen, Mr. Bourne smiles at the plummy tones. Theater Review | 'A Life in Three Acts': Of Youth, Frocks and Politics: A Not-So-Ordinary Life 2010-03-08T06:24:00Z Among those suppressing his naturally plummy vowels is Patrick Stewart. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Stratford-Upon-Avon Edition 2011-07-22T21:16:12Z “When I first read this play, I thought, ‘What is happening?’” he said, his plummy voice tinged with mock alarm. Review: In ‘Elijah Green,’ Archetypes in Search of Meaning 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Fry is an unstrained Malvolio: less domineering and more generous than might be expected, allowing disappointment to drift over his looming physical presence and plummy delivery. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z Sit a few rows back and let the plummy vowels wash over you. Sparkling performances buoy revival of British comedy ‘On Approval’ 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Chaplin himself gave “The Gold Rush” an “Artist”-like makeover in 1942, when he reissued the film in a shortened version with music, sound effects and his own plummy, voice-over narration. DVD: Charlie Chaplin in ‘The Gold Rush,’ Remastered 2012-06-22T16:00:00Z Grapes take on a whole new flavor profile when they're skewered and put on the grill, giving them a smoky, slightly plummy sweetness and an extra-juicy texture. 30 Yotam Ottolenghi recipes big on flavor, low on effort 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Though thematically heavy, the songs on the album he released in May are plummy and pop-laden, full of orchestral flourishes and bebop trumpets. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Ms. Anderson, who was brought up in the United States but spent much of her childhood in England, toggles nimbly between crisp Americanese and a plummy British accent. Gillian Anderson as a Fashion Inspiration 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z "When Dr. King was being interviewed by the press, there was a certain demeanor, a dignified presence, he felt the need to project," said the Nigerian-British Oyelowo, in a plummy accent. In 'Selma,' David Oyelowo digs deep to play Martin Luther King Jr. 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The magazine was turned into Braille and a rather plummy acting friend of David's would be brought in every four weeks to record it on to tape. Once upon a life 2010-05-01T23:35:00Z This wine — a blend of 70 percent merlot and 30 percent cabernet sauvignon — is plummy, spicy, herbal and elegant in the best Bordeaux tradition. In Trying Times, 20 Wines Under $20 That Revive and Restore 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z “The Tonys back then were historically a posh and highbrow salute to theatrical excellence,” Harris said recently, lingering plummily over those last two words. ‘Not Just for Gays’: The Year the Tonys Dared to Go There 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z While insipid or pretentious merlot abounds, this one, from the consistently good Broadside, is fresh and plummy, well balanced and lip-smacking, with a pleasant bitterness to invite the next sip. 20 Wines Under $20: Touring the World, Familiar to Obscure 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z He was an old-school Englishman, a toff — bespoke clothes, club memberships, plummy accent, riding to hounds — who lived most of his life abroad, broke much of the time, settling down at last in Greece. A Renowned Travel Writer’s Letters From the Road 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The actor, who brought his plummy hauteur to the revived Khan character in Star Trek Into Darkness, and who co-stars in this week’s 12 Years a Slave, manages to occupy, glamorize and parody Assange. The Fifth Estate: A Hollywood Cartoon of Julian Assange 2013-10-16T17:42:52Z Mr. Welser-Möst seems to favor voices more willowy than plummy; his singers tend to blend with the instruments — beautifully — rather than soar over them. Review: ‘Ariadne,’ the Most Operatic Opera, Bows in Cleveland 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z And he’s lent his plummy voice to a raft of animated shows from “Family Guy” to “Robot Chicken.” Review: On ‘Blunt Talk,’ Patrick Stewart Is Far From Home and Caught With His Pants Down 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Overseeing the plummy dining room is general manager Justin Guthrie, another alumnus of Central but most recently the director of operations for the Kuller Restaurant Group. The buzzy Convivial in Shaw lives up to its name 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z In her case, this means “A Handful of Dust,” in which she is cruel and aristocratic, and “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” in which she is stoic and plummy. Kristin Scott Thomas on Playing a Different Kind of Part 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z One of the best reasons to visit this grande dame of American resorts, founded in 1778, has always been to mingle with its plummy ghosts. The Greenbrier Resort Hopes to Preserve its Past. 2010-08-14T04:58:00Z As he intoned plummily with the gallery looking on, Miss Rio stole up behind him, unbuckled his belt, unzipped his fly and neatly dropped his trousers. Rosa Rio, Organist From Silent Films to Soap Operas, Dies at 107 2010-05-15T04:45:00Z Chile’s signature grape offers nice, plummy, cherry fruit, with nice body and a decent finish. An armful of Passover wines to grab now 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z So it is that Stanley Windrush, played by Carmichael, is born into the officer class, yet finds himself a private, or is destined for management, yet ends up a plummy forklift-truck driver. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z "That kind of very sloppy, very plummy way of speaking is indicative of a certain socioeconomic level of an English person," Moore described of Charley's accent. American actors with the best onscreen British accents, from Peter Dinklage to Renee Zellwegger 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z His accent is as plummy as that of the most pompous courtier, but the language it adorns is far from gentlemanly. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z At times it almost seems that Mr. Baldwin’s Dysart is meant to be a winking homage to Burton, so precisely does he evoke that Welsh-born star at his most plummy and deliciously if deplorably mannered. | 'Equus': Alec Baldwin Stars at Guild Hall in East Hampton 2010-06-24T22:00:00Z The beer is the color of dark chocolate, and that’s the overwhelming flavor here, along with some coffee, roasted malts and a plummy fruitiness from the Belgian yeast. Beer of the Week: Allagash St. Klippenstein 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Or terminated by her bit on the side so he could continue to marvel at Lumley's plummy articulation during pillow talk. Game of Thrones; Jonathan Creek – TV review 2013-04-02T06:00:03Z Dark, plummy and mysteriously bitter, with 5.6 percent alcohol it was much stronger than many of the local beers, though still weaker than many American craft brews. A Tasting Tour of Yorkshire’s Beers and Ales 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z A plummy voice tells us of a writer who discovers that his characters are real, then of a woman who thinks she’s in the movies. Review: A Los Angeles Troupe in Search of Choreographic Vision 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Every so often he bursts into song, easing the noose of his unrelenting and smugly clever monologues, invariably declaimed in plummy, self-satisfied tones. | 'The Living Wake': Life, Death and Other Subjects 2010-05-13T23:32:00Z It’s doleful and insistent, a reedy high tenor that sails up to a plummy, androgynous falsetto. Sam Smith’s Sold-Out Show at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In the opening of the Butterworth cycle, he suffered a bit from the time-honored nervous singer’s retreat into a plummy, slightly exaggerated sound, but as the evening continued, he relaxed into a more natural delivery. World War I tribute makes a refreshing recital debut for baritone John Brancy 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Set to a voice-over of an actor reading the passage in a plummy English accent, the skit featured two actors who were, bizarrely, each dressed as the musician Prince. Has Prince Harry’s Confessional Tour Run Its Course? 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z As a heavily accented Chinese-Malaysian student at an Australian medical school, I once took it upon myself to adopt the plummy, sophisticated English accent I’d encountered in Merchant Ivory films. Letters to the Editor 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z His face a mask of warm condescension, his diction as plummy as damson preserves, Mr. Busch does evoke the holier-than-thou graciousness into which Russell evolved. | 'The Divine Sister': No Doubt, Not a Typical Singing Nun 2010-09-23T02:03:00Z But the pleasures afforded by this long-running television series overlap considerably with the satisfactions for which many of us look to the theater: a heightened literacy, refined wit, rich characterizations, absorbing narrative, plummy British accents. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Missing Maggie Smith 2011-02-17T18:40:33Z With a plummy upper-class English accent, Mr. Macnee played Steed with one eyebrow arched quizzically beneath the brim of his bowler hat. Patrick Macnee, debonair actor in the TV series ‘The Avengers,’ dies at 93 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z You don’t need to see his rugged face to recognize the man behind “The Wild With Chris Morgan”: His plummy voice and expertise on wildlife give him away. With travel podcasts, explore the world through your ear buds 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z But in my new household, I was an American among Britons, a writer among radio listeners, a peanut butter devotee among Marmite fans, a Midwestern twang among smooth plummy accents. When Even a Toddler Can Tell You Don’t Belong 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Notes of licorice and bittersweet chocolate mingle with a plummy fruitiness. For 40 years, Anchor has kept drinkers guessing with its Christmas Ale 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Announcers wore dinner jackets as well as their plummy accents, “as a courtesy to the live performers with whom they would be consorting.” A Century of the BBC, a ‘Quasi-Mystical’ Part of England’s Psyche 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Those enticed inside will pad over plummy carpet and recline on a big lavender sofa. Critical Shopper: Pucci Is Relevant Again — Critical Shopper 2013-02-05T18:14:10Z The two soloists sang well; Ms. Harvey with a clear, appealing sound, and Ms. Johnson with a rich, plummy voice that was particularly arresting in its lower register. Music Review: Orchestra of St. Luke?s Performs ?Stabat Mater? 2010-05-25T22:50:00Z What if I told you that, despite all this, Watson keeps her plummy British accent? £7 for Shia LaBeouf, £47 for Emma Watson: the A-list films no one saw 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z All plummy voice and rolling syllables, Ms. Baldrige took my call. Death of Letitia Baldrige Is Loss for Society as Decorum Fades 2012-11-05T18:32:08Z He slipped into a deep-toned, plummy Thorpe voice: “I could feel my jaw getting longer, heavy lips, heavy tongue; a lot of tongue work when he is lying or aroused.” For Hugh Grant, a Smaller Screen Brings a More Complex Role 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The product of elite schooling and Oxford University, he spoke in the plummy accents of the British ruling class. Review: ‘Lambert & Stamp’ Recalls the Duo Who Helped Ignite the Who 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z "He tortured me!" she gasps plummily, when Arthur rescues her from a Roman overlord. King Arthur: Keira and the grumpy knights of the unsound table 2011-01-27T14:45:06Z You might take the nigiri for Japanese, too, if they weren’t topped with tender, plummy duck breast and a sweet mush of cooked banana with fresh cilantro. Llama San Is Not a Typical Postcard From Peru 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Here, I’ve layered them in a sheet pan with chicken and sliced red onions, which caramelize in all those plummy juices. Roast Chicken and Plums Make the Sweetest Sheet-Pan Meal 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The voice is not exactly plummy these days, but it retains a wonderfully liquid quality in lyric passages.” Giuseppe Taddei, Latecomer to the Met, Dies at 93 2010-06-04T05:43:00Z She sang, I wrote then, “with creamy strength and authority. Lively even when asked to walk like a somnambulist, she sounded plummy and penetrating.” Classical Music This Week: Bagatelles, ‘La Favorite’ and Kirsten Flagstad 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z There is bemusement at first, as if he cannot fathom that the plummy voice was once his. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z He’s sinister, sinuous and terrifying, and his voice echoes with the plummy accents of Benedict Cumberbatch. ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’: Enter the dragon 2013-12-12T00:35:31Z The musical posits Britain as a land of fancy chandeliers, postcard palaces and plummy accents — what, no beefeaters?!? Review | In time for Thanksgiving, Broadway serves up a turkey: ‘Diana’ the musical 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z They had: Kit Lambert, according to Altham, literally scrambled across the tables to Chas at one of the shows and said, "in his plummy accent", he had to sign him. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z “The taste is salty and the texture is fleshy,” she notes, “disorienting, but under the saltiness something plummy, rich as jam.” Love, Sex and Atom Bombs in a Debut Novel of the American West 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The unnamed blend probably is mostly merlot, with plummy cherry-fruit flavors and plush texture. 5 wines that are perfect for Passover 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Both Gleeson and Robbie, who is Australian, required vigorous vocal training to affect the plummy English accents of Milne and his wife Daphne. Domhnall Gleeson Proves Once Again That He Can Do Anything 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The most convincing tenor was that of Blake Friedman as Iago, whose voice has a plummy fullness and dusky hue. Review: The Desdemona in This ‘Otello’ Spits Fire 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Peppery spice elevates plummy fruit, embraced by firm tannins. 6 Kosher for Passover wines to try 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z They've been nominated for 14 Baftas and 11 Oscars, including best picture, best director, best supporting actor and actress, best screenplay, best editing, plummiest consonants, loveliest vowels and best medicinal use of swearing. Pass notes No 2,912: The King's Speech 2011-01-18T20:00:01Z Capuçon's sound is just as distinctive: Plush and velvety, his plummy tone is upholstered by wide vibratos and embellished by dramatic tosses of his black locks. Review: One charismatic evening with Montero and Capu?on, performing Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff 2010-11-18T02:01:00Z Of the North American types, Stanley Tucci plays the main villain in distinctly plummy home counties tones. Jack the Giant Slayer: big news or the height of nonsense? 2012-11-23T15:16:42Z The Mirror reported that her new “frightfully posh accent” confused the viewers – today it’s not quite as plummy. Former Spice Girl Geri: ‘I like myself a bit better now’ 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z They never get much beyond plummy accents and posturing. Review | Oh, Nell, you deserved better! ‘Nell Gwynn’ is a disappointing new play at the Folger. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z "I mean, a public school rocker with a plummy BBC accent ... hardly." Kevin Ayers dies aged 68 2013-02-20T15:42:22Z He starts off plummy, slightly bouncing on his well-heeled shoes; he ends up wizened, stooped, the mellifluousness of his voice strained, with a woolly hat and a supermarket trolley full of his "goods". Timon of Athens; Peace Camp; The Only True History of Lizzie Finn – review 2012-07-21T23:05:46Z At a nearby table, British couples talked in plummy accents about Notting Hill real estate. Revelations in High-End Rome 2012-09-28T18:24:21Z The exuberant first movement leads to an elegiac Andantino, whose soaring melody Ms. Hristova played with expressive nuance and a rich tone, particularly attractive in the violin’s plummy lower range. Music Review: Showcase for Bella Hristova at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-04-22T21:19:00Z His perfect manners and plummy tremolo of a voice never came across as entitlement. Chris Blackwell Is Music’s Quietest ‘Record Man.’ His Artists Speak Loudly. 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z And then the boring man with the plummy voice begins going on about a Christmas message to the world from the Vatican. My father paid four times his weekly wage for the greatest gift of my life 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Drifting through were words in plummy British accents. Alvin Ailey Troupe Debuts ‘The Pleasure of the Lesson’ 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Hugh Grant voices the Pirate Captain, whose "plummy tones perfectly suit a luxuriantly bearded pirate plagued by self-doubt." New DVDs | 'The Pirates!,' 'Battleship,' 'The Lucky One' 2012-08-27T21:00:06Z Robinson may lack the lowest notes of Mozart’s punishing part, but he has a way to make you think that even they have the plummy richness of the rest of his range. Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z He speaks passionately, but with a slow, plummy emphasis on even ordinary words that is distracting to an American ear. The TV Watch: Prince Charles Dishes Dirt (the Organic Kind) 2010-11-19T06:00:00Z Hoiby’s music is quite wonderful, with the winds miming some of the actions in the text and offering their own flavor of plummy support. Jamie Barton serves up delicious recital at Wolf Trap Barns. This one, however, is "an uncommonly plummy day" because, writes Alcott, "now and then, in this work-a-day world, things do happen in the delightful story book fashion, and what a comfort that is". Season's reading: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 2010-12-22T12:40:55Z In her prime she was a classic contralto with a plummy, deep-set sound. Maureen Forrester, Canadian Contralto, Dies at 79 2010-06-18T03:55:00Z Juliet Stevenson brings her lovely low voice and grace to the narration, ranging easily in accent through Britain’s social classes, from plummy British consul, clipped headmistress, refined Miss Benson down to Enid, a feisty cockney. Review | When these animals talk, listen: Audiobooks give voice to a cat, a horse, a sheep and others 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Her voice has less plummy power than Ms. Rachvelishvili’s, but it penetrates, without ever losing its gentleness of texture. After 31 Years, Farewell to the Met Opera’s Grand, Gaudy ‘Aida’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z In 10 Years of Location, Location, Location on Channel 4 tonight, television's plummiest pair present "a nostalgic evening of property-themed viewing." Why Location, Location, Location will always be a property hotspot 2010-12-30T11:30:00Z Plush and modern in style, this plummy merlot coats your palate and finishes with a touch of sweetness. Perspective | Three kosher wines, including a sparkling, for your Passover seder 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Then a guest is actually murdered, setting Blanc and his plummy Southern drawl on the trail of a killer. Now streaming: ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ on Paramount+, ‘Glass Onion’ on Netflix 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Forget every store-bought version: This is deeply plummy, pleasantly sour, possibly citrusy, with a slight spicy bite. Restaurant review: 9 things to love about Kobuta & Ookami, Seattle’s best place to pork out — and 1 problem 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The Times, ever devoted to its vision of L.A.’s plummy future, wrote pages and pages about real estate, larding its stories with words like “stately mansion” and “palatial dwelling.” L.A. loves to gawk at and fight about extravagant real estate 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z His pastorates traversed Minnesota, Montana and North Dakota before he settled in Spokane, where he was renowned for inspiring sermons, a plummy voice and palpable charisma. Vacation vicariously with a ‘Now & Then’ photographic re-creation of a dozen trips 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z In a speech, he caricatured the plummy, officious critic delivering high-toned statements of the obvious. Review: If anyone can teach you writing, maybe George Saunders can? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The vinyl makes no such pretensions, the satisfyingly rich, plummy quality of recorded music being an art form of its own. Commentary: The L.A. Phil quiet no more 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z Rich, savory, earthy, and sophisticated, this cabernet-based blend is filled with plummy, full-bodied fruit. Just .1% US winemakers are Black. Here’s how to start changing that 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z I was happy for the generous amount of pita and used it to sop up all that wonderful plummy gravy. Neighborhood Eats grabs takeout in Kirkland! And you have to try this crispy dosa 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z His voice, a plangent, plummy thing, is like an artificial-intelligence simulacrum of how the upper classes spoke in Edwardian England. How Brexit Will End 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Wavering between plummy and cockney, Farrow’s English accent wanders from upstairs to downstairs and never finds a place to sit. Catch and Kill: how convincing are Ronan Farrow's surprising audiobook accents? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z He speaks with a plummy British accent, the result of a childhood spent in London and studying at posh boarding school. Meet Alki David: The self-appointed ambassador for the wronged men of the #MeToo movement 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Beautiful brick-red muhummara, with approximately the same consistency, featured the flavors of roasted red peppers, walnuts and more pomegranate molasses — plummy but with a mouth-awakening tartness, plus just the right amount of salt and cumin. Seattle’s tiny walk-up window Yalla serves big, beautiful Arabic flavors 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z It is 2012, and he is performing in a skit on Jimmy Kimmel’s US talkshow, reciting from R Kelly’s autobiography with the plummy majesty he later brought to the role of Churchill. ‘No one cared because we were black girls’: is time finally up for R Kelly? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z In its busy-ness and its tremor of financial anxiety, it feels a bit downscale, especially following that plummy silent page from Gucci. Understanding the psyche of today's American oligarchy through magazine ads 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z The plot against her appears to have fizzled, at least for now, with its plummy patrician leader in a bespoke double-breasted suit, Jacob Rees-Mogg, now cast as fool. Theresa May’s unloved Brexit plan is much like the prime minister herself 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z “Oh, I know, I know,” she said sardonically, in her plummy, gleefully debauched Catholic girls’ school voice. Louder than bombs: my journey in war and music 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z All you have to do is readjust your mind-set to a time when a ridiculously plummy accent was a sign of status, and not an affectation routinely adopted by estate agents in the Cotswolds. Review: The Crown on Netflix ★★★★☆ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The wavy-haired Londoner with a plummy accent had had further success in two other movies. Death in Bollywood: who killed Jiah Khan? 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z “I’m accused by many people of being the most serious man on television,” Gorka said in his plummy British accent. For a Trump adviser, an odyssey from the fringes of Washington to the center of power 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Here, suddenly, was Trump attempting to placate Hispanic voters in a plummy British luvvie voice, or firing broadsides at Hillary as a cockney hardman. Pop goes Trump! The artists, comedians and meme-makers deflating the Donald 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The movie opens with its heroine and title character, once again played by Renée Zellweger adopting her plummiest British accent, celebrating her 43rd birthday alone. ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’: Renee Zellweger is back as the rom-com heroine 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Having been educated at Britain’s most elite boarding school, Eton, with a plummy accent to match, he now claims the voice of the common man. Who is Boris Johnson? The eccentric blond New Yorker set to rule the UK 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z He wed a populist message to a plummy vocabulary. Ted Cruz’s Bitter End 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Among the men on the list, there is Radio 4's Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld whose voice is described as "plummy as jam". Radio Times searches for best voice on airwaves - BBC News 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Her voice, all plummy vowels and tart consonants, ranges from a boom to a quaver. Diana Athill: ‘I expected to be shattered at the loss of my baby, and I wasn't' 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z The combination of his high-pitched plummy voice and singular style of presentation made his television programmes compulsive viewing for millions. Brian Sewell: Obituary - BBC News 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z “We get that a lot,” says Anne, in her plummy Birmingham accent. Why More Urban Parents Are Choosing Homeschooling 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Then he sang it with exaggerated British diction — plummily rolling his R’s and stressing the final syllable of “breathed” — and everyone in the rehearsal room broke up laughing. Matthew Aucoin, Opera’s Great 25-Year-Old Hope 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z In their plush melodies and plummy platitudes, many Rodgers-and-Hammerstein songs were secular hymns, which so insinuated themselves into the ear of the Eisenhower-era listener that they became the liturgical music for the American mid-century. Can Even a Cranky Guy Fall for 'The Sound of Music'? 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z He wears custom suits, speaks in a plummy, refined accent and carries an umbrella that performs double duty as both firearm and, when opened, a bulletproof shield. ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’: James Bond meets Jack Bauer 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z In Bayonetta, you play as the eponymous Umbra Witch – a commanding woman with an exaggeratedly plummy British accent. VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Bayonetta 2 is an unhinged masterpiece She paid particular note of the use of Cantlie and his plummy British accent, along with the continued emphasis on “facts.” ISIS Video of John Cantlie Drowns Westerners in Propaganda Confusion 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z On the one hand, the New Atheist, with his plummy Oxbridge tones, tries to convince Americans that God is dead at a time when London is alive with Hinduism and Islam. Richard Rodriguez: “New Atheism has a distinctly neo-colonial aspect” 2013-12-15T16:00:00Z And although, the paper says, he was well known for his "plummy voice", he once entered a Whicker soundalike contest - but only managed to come third. Papers focus on Cameron adviser 2013-07-13T04:46:38Z "Banter", a word that only really works when said in a plummy accent, is arguably the central tenet of this so-called "lad culture". Uni Lad's shocking sexism is not just teenage, it's stone age 2013-02-07T16:25:01Z Down at the equestrian dressage, the plummy voice of the commentator matches the well-heeled audience. Bouncy announcers can grate - just let fans enjoy it 2012-08-06T07:42:19Z Chartreuse tulip trees, gingered white oaks, plummy blackhaws appear as the rites of autumn writ small. City Room: Spring Time: Dance of the Bumblebees 2012-04-12T18:06:10Z Clearly we shouldn’t write off all of them: 10 years of aging turned this balanced grenache-shiraz-mourvedre blend into a scented, wonderfully plummy wine with silky tannins. Top 10 Toasts Rothschild Fizz, $3,500 Port, Boxed Chardonnay 2011-12-12T09:24:08Z Grant, who starred in the comedy “Notting Hill,” told the inquiry his messages were hacked for a 2007 story that claimed he received late night calls from a “plummy voiced studio executive.” Hugh Grant Says Mail on Sunday May Have Hacked His Phone in 2007 2011-11-21T16:43:46Z Here we are, all settled at our first neat stopping-place, and are in clover, as you will see when I tell you how plummy and lovely it is. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z He dreamed he was a plummy cake Of most enormous size. Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 And you hang out two very 'plummy' daughters. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 "I do believe there is a Santa Claus, and that he heard us, for here is everything we wanted," said Dolly, holding the carnelian heart in one hand and the plummy one in the other. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. But it is easy to overdo the plummy tone, which is apt to become cloying. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 The little friend received the dear plummy cake, and I a kiss and my first lesson in the sweetness of self-denial,–a lesson which my dear mother beautifully illustrated all her long and noble life. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Our great leader, James Arthur Bunting, was perhaps the most perfect butler that the world has yet seen; his magnificent presence, plummy voice, exquisite tact, and wide knowledge made him beyond price. Marge Askinforit But never mind, girls, I've a plummy bit of news for you. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 And besides we are going to give her half of that big plummy fruit cake Mother sent us from home. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 WORDSWORTH: It was the very best of pies, All plummy, thick and sweet; A pie of most prodigious size— And very few to eat. The Re-echo Club With these words he put down the dish, with the 'plummy' end of the pudding turned towards himself. Chatterbox, 1906 They don't come every day like parents and plain pudding; they're a sort of holiday relative with a plummy, Christmas flavor about them. A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother" She adds: "The little friend received the dear plummy cake, and I ... my first lesson in the sweetness of self-denial—a lesson which my dear mother illustrated all her long and noble life." Ten American Girls From History There were also baskets of fine grapes, the tender pink bloom of Delawares, and the pale emerald of Niagaras, with the plummy gloss of Concords. The Debtor A Novel It was a curious but exhilarating experience to hear the Bohemians, the playboys of Central Europe, interpreted in the roast-beef-and-plum-pudding style of the Philharmonic at its beefiest and plummiest. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 The Annual Register of History, Politics, and Literature of the Year 1764 looks plummy, but we have to forego it. The New North A warm plummy odor filled the whole house, for Priscilla was cooking in the kitchen. Anne of the Island No one missed the cake, and her mother gave her another, saying,— "There, dear, is a nice plummy one for my good child." The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School "Plummiest," the superlative of "plummy," exquisitely delicious; an epithet commonly used by young gentlemen in speaking of a bonne bouche or "tit bit," as a mince pie, a preserved apricot, or an oyster patty. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe It shall be that plummy," said Jefferson convincingly, "that you'd think you never saw such a one for richness. Five Little Peppers Midway It is all plummy; i.e. all is right, or as it ought to be. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Mrs. Eben brought her some fresh tea, some hot rolls, and a little jelly-pot of the apricot preserves Sara liked, and she cut some more fruit cake for her in moist plummy slices. Further Chronicles of Avonlea I always do, if I can; there 's nothing I like better than to shovel in sugar and spice, and make nice, plummy cake for people. An Old-Fashioned Girl |
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