| 单词 | raffish |
| 例句 | Tonsures, pigtails, head completely shaved but for a single forelock, long sides drawn into a queue with a raffish short-cut roach in the middle—all of it was prideful and abhorrent to the Pilgrims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Growing up, I was always tickled by this raffish personal connection to history: part of the Puritans, but not actually puritanical. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Tory is raffish, amusing, elegant; he was quite clearly as dazzled by McKinney as everyone else, but bemused about her now. Tabloid revives memories of the 'Manacled Mormon' 2010-10-12T07:50:00Z The fascination with language, the deference to a raffish Daily Express columnist Tory, the gleeful reprinting of quaint English postcards, Morris seemed to find it all quite fascinating. SXSW 2011: My Tabloid expos? 2011-03-15T17:39:42Z The best emerging writers metaphorically reject their domineering parents and gravitate to their raffish uncles and outcast aunts. Review | A celebration of the outsiders and outcasts who have made music great 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s his habit to set up holiday shop in this room, and what he lacks in vocal expressivity he can make up in raffish enthusiasm. Pop Picks for New Year’s Eve in New York 2013-12-26T23:11:43Z And two years ago, she oversaw a move to much bigger digs, a 20,000-square-foot Michael Maltzan-designed space, on a raffish block in Hollywood. Regen Projects, at 25, has grown into a fixture in L.A. art world 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z It hasn’t been dolled up and it still exudes an air of raffish melancholy. ‘Standing by the Bosphorus gives me goosebumps’: Jason Goodwin's Istanbul 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Movie stars are always movie stars, whether they’re blocking a scene, taking direction, getting their makeup done or enjoying a regal or raffish smoke between takes. When Filming in New York, the City Is Always the Star 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The aesthetic is raffish, glammish and also punkish, and the musical selections zigzag through the years from “Their Satanic Majesties Request” to “London Calling.” ‘Cruella’ Review: A Disney Villain Gets a Backstory. It’s Spotty. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z On his head: both a headband and a raffish, straw-colored hat, gray tufts poking out in all directions. Arts & Leisure Preview: Keith Richards, With Memories to Burn 2010-10-21T13:44:00Z Laurence Fox is rather stolidly English as Guy, suggesting a house prefect drawn into some dirty business by one of his raffish juniors. Critics applaud Strangers stage play 2013-11-20T12:58:45Z In his autobiography, Miles complained she was "too young and wild" and suspected her of having an affair with the raffish Hendrix, something she flatly denies. The muse who changed Miles 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z It stars David Tennant as a raffish demon who has formed an unlikely 6,000-year friendship with Michael Sheen’s buttoned-down angel. Partridge, politics and period pomp: the must-see TV shows of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z His shot of a bowl of moldy fruit, which appeared on the cover of Vice magazine, is a standout — a raffish take on pictorialism. Art Review: Ignoring Boundaries and Borrowing Freely 2010-10-07T22:49:00Z Others might regard him as a conscienceless, borderline psychopath, and the riveting central performance by Rhys Ifans, who plays Marks as a charming, raffish boyo from the Welsh valleys, doesn't wholly preclude such an interpretation. Mr Nice ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Descending the staircase into 54 Below, the raffish, speakeasylike cabaret in the basement of the notorious disco Studio 54, you feel a stir of excitement. Even With 54 Below and Joe’s Pub, Cabaret’s Future Is Unclear 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Helen has her raffish and unscrupulous side but is also capable of engineering her own breakthroughs of insight, and of looking at her blindnesses square on. Unexpected Lessons in Love by Bernardine Bishop – review 2013-01-21T08:00:01Z “His ballets capture perfectly the raffish individualism of life in the Village and strengthen the performance in a number of ways,” the critic Brooks Atkinson wrote of Mr. Saddler in The New York Times. Donald Saddler, Dancer, and a Choreographer on Broadway, Dies at 96 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Seems that only five minutes ago, fairs like Glastonbury and Coachella were a magnet for music lovers, their raffish turnouts — floral dresses, parkas and Wellies — a postscript to the main event. Front Row: Rock and Rags Are Co-Stars 2011-06-22T20:11:25Z A raffish and intrepid adventurer, Blood led one of those colorful lives that people who read too much secretly wish could be theirs. A summer book list like no other: Michael Dirda picks 11 hidden gems 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Swallow your doubts: There’s conviction in everything he plays, and often a sense of raffish provocation. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Good caper stories are hard to resist, especially for light summer reading, so two raffish thieves lead off this month’s crime fiction. Caper stories and mysteries for the beach or backyard 2013-08-07T22:16:26Z Billie Eilish wants you to know she is in charge, brash and self-assured enough to scrap the raffish image that helped garner her a world of fans in favor of something a little more … adult. On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z He spun off Agnelli’s look into a variety of design businesses, not always with great success, adding to his forebear’s steely polish his own loopy and often raffish touch. On the Runway Blog: ‘A New Typology of Custom Design’ for Lapo Elkann 2013-06-23T20:53:14Z Benedict Nelson, a stylish singer of quiet authority, never overplays Figaro, which comes as welcome relief in this raffish, pantomimic staging. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z A self-styled Prince of Darkness, an atheist who fears he is “irretrievably consigned to perdition,” Jack gives off a raffish existential allure. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The only thing slightly raffish about the soft-spoken, laconic author was his nickname, Dutch, and the cloth working-guy caps he wore in all kinds of weather. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z There's also that raffish wink at the end of the first stanza. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z In those days, business managers, entertainment lawyers and agents began shunting similarly raffish clients her way, reasoning, as she explained, “She will call them ‘dude’ and they will tell her their problems. Laura Wasser, She Who Will Cleave the Union of Kim and Kanye 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z He combines his raffish erudition with accounts of traveling to tap the minds of cosmologists, theologians, particle physicists, philosophers, mystics and others. Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z A woman placed in the role of an action hero or a criminal adventurer is empowered, heroic, raffish. There's an all-female Ghostbusters – how about a male Thelma and Louise? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Playing a raffish aesthete punch-drunk both on language and, yes, drink, Mr. McKellen allows his Spooner the occasional sly smile when he has let rip with an especially spry turn of phrase. In Pinter’s ‘No Man’s Land,’ Actor-Knights Wield Their Words 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z A pair of tartan-patterned pole dance pumps, a tiny pleated schoolgirl skirt and a leather merry widow — they emerged one by one from a nondescript cardboard carton, the raffish trappings of the sex trade. Time to Trot Out the Fishnets and Put on a Show 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Lanphear is similarly drawn to skins, her raffish longtime signature. In Fashion, Are Trends Passé? 2012-08-22T23:58:16Z True, he's just swallowed up half of our allotted interview time to be preened by hair and makeup, but he is head-turningly handsome: tall, lean, raffish, chiselled. Irrfan Khan: 'I object to the term Bollywood' 2013-07-25T18:00:00Z But it captures the raffish spirit of the show's Times Square characters, lifted from pungent short stories from the 1930s and '40s by New York writer Damon Runyan, just fine. Review: Gamblers and dames ? in fine voice ? hit town in 'Guys and Dolls' 2011-05-23T22:25:04Z They were Buruma’s charons into a raffish world of erotic cabarets and sex shows and carnival acts. How Life as a Foreigner Helped Shape a Man of Letters 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z This is the writer who conjured up Slippery Jim DiGriz, a k a the Stainless Steel Rat, a raffish con man who starred in a dozen books over a half-century. Harry Harrison, a Prolific Writer of Satiric Science Fiction, Dies at 87 2012-08-18T02:52:27Z "In your midst, I am a timid emissary from the raffish and vulgar world of entertainment," Lithgow said, drawing laughs. 'Salvage the Bones' a National Book Award winner 2011-11-17T18:03:21Z Young Lendrum’s prowess earned him a raffish preeminence among his peers. Review | For years, Jeffrey Lendrum was at once an avid outdoorsman and merciless thief. Then he got caught. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Her raffish Midwestern look contrasted bracingly with the restrictively tailored, often corseted look of her time. Jean Seberg’s Legacy: A Look With a Life of Its Own 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z His look in particular, disheveled and raffish, seems an impossible goal. Critical Shopper | Herm?s Madison for Men: Kitsch With a Pedigree 2010-03-04T06:20:00Z Meg Zeder dressed the cast in Edwardian finery, raffish kit and Gypsy chic. Music Review: Bronx Opera in ?The Poisoned Kiss? at Lehman College - Review 2012-01-15T23:32:20Z Although a physical wreck at the end of his life, Thomas still had a baby face and wavy hair that conveyed a raffish glamour. Review: ‘Set Fire to the Stars’ Unleashes Dylan Thomas on America 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Dickey’s true subject is not the District of Columbia but its raffish, rowdy, gap-toothed precursor. Book World: ‘Empire of Mud,’ by J.D. Dickey In it, Tokita is simultaneously alert, guarded, sober, dapper, even raffish. At SAAM: A lost art-history chapter restored 2011-12-07T23:48:10Z In point of fact, this tricky style, which owes a debt to the raffish street garb of New York and London hipsters, requires a balance of pattern and proportion more artful than might be supposed. 2010-02-17T15:58:00Z Mannequins slouched or sat cross-legged, their turnouts much in keeping with the studiedly raffish aesthetic of Jenna Lyons, the company’s creative director and newly named president. | J. Crew Bridal Boutique: At the New J. Crew Bridal Boutique 2010-07-20T21:10:00Z The challenges here are tailor-made for FitzHigham's raffish, aristocratic, lusciously bewhiskered stage persona. Tim FitzHigham ? review 2011-08-28T13:32:13Z The book by the man who made his name as the raffish lead of the 1960s British movie "Alfie" has advice for would-be actors. For Michael Caine's second act, another memoir 2010-10-27T15:56:00Z No one mistook it for the real thing, but it did lend him a raffish Sammy Davis Jr.-like charm. The Secret Price of Pets 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z This high-toned showbiz biography teems with larger-than-life Broadway personalities and their raffish kind. The shame and glory of Tennessee Williams in John Lahr's new book 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Kyle decides to work with Frank rather than turn him in, and “Training Day” loses its nerve in the process, turning Frank into a raffish renegade who just says what everybody’s thinking. ‘Training Day’ and ‘A.P.B.,’ Where the Rogue Cop Rules 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Grunge and its raffish offshoots, once dour expressions of a wholesale rejection of fashion, are back for an encore, reborn, paradoxically, as fashion’s last word. Grunge Endures as Tribute to a Creative Golden Age 2013-05-01T22:37:42Z The classic men’s hat–it replaced the stodgy homburg back in the 1920s–still plays on several keys, being both semiformal and somehow raffish at once. The Eye: Gin Revival, Fedora Smarts And Surfboard Style 2013-06-04T14:09:54Z Fans have familiarized themselves with her raffish sensibility and lacerating insights into how our culture portrays women. 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad': A playwright's raucous riff on sexism and body shame 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z He used his social connections to make images of Paris’s cultural elite, and sometimes also his raffish friends. The Wild of Nadar, an Early Photographer Who Knew How to Give a Party 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Pinwheeling ideas and opinions, and wearing his charisma like a raffish musk, he has a star quality that few of the “stars” at the 67th edition of the world’s biggest movie convention could match. Pulp Fiction at 20: When Cannes Was Cool 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z It's thrillingly raffish to tell a taxi driver: "Pull up by the liquor store", as if this were the entry to some underground lair, accessible only to those possessing a password. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z She’s a nobody when James Mason — playing matinee idol Norman Maine at the height of his raffish celebrity — spots her as he’s disrupting a party, then tracks her down at an after-hours club. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But Jack Engle and the other raffish young male characters, Mr. Reynolds said, are reminiscent of the man-of-the-streets persona — “Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs” — he created with “Leaves of Grass.” In a Walt Whitman Novel, Lost for 165 Years, Clues to ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z By midnight, as a fog machine clouded the air and disco thumped, the club was packed with a raffish crowd that included a sprinkling of stars like Chloë Sevigny and MC Spank Rock. Scene City: A Feverish Warm-Up to the Art Fair 2011-03-02T19:07:38Z In her raffish T-shirts and boy coats, in concert she is the anti Gaga, rejecting gaudy, serial costume changes, refusing to bend with every shift in fashion’s wind. Patti Smith?s Eye for Fashion 2010-03-19T20:41:00Z And when the 90s came, and Mike Myers’s comedy international spy Austin Powers became a smash hit, his style of Bond became increasingly adored: raffish, deadpan, devil-may-care. Roger Moore: the modest, self-deprecating 007 who brought some serious aplomb | Peter Bradshaw 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Afterward, he started to communicate with living Redondan notables and to research the micro-nation’s various rival monarchs, including a raffish ship’s captain known as King Bob the Bald. Review | This giant rock is actually a literary Neverland, complete with a king 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Now combined into a single storefront, the current retail space retains raffish details of its liquor-store days, including a retro red-and-blue neon sign and period gilt window lettering advertising cognacs and cordials. In a storied building, the tale about the abolitionist is rarely told 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z But logic isn’t the point of a story populated by a cast of colorfully raffish hit men, ne’er-do-wells, a precocious chaos merchant and an ever-looming crime kingpin called the White Death. Review | ‘Bullet Train’: A chaotic trip to nowhere, with Brad Pitt on board 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Stevens begins his account with an introduction to his ancestors, all of whom were show people in the gloriously raffish tradition. Review | How George Stevens Jr. bridged two worlds: Hollywood and Washington 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z It happened in a tournament of 53 teams, at a time when the selection process seemed much more raffish and maybe even beery. What does Mike Krzyzewski remember about his first NCAA tournament game? A missed call. 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Kevin, an Englishman living in Marseille, agreed to meet with the young Helder, who hoped to learn a few secrets of the trade from a master with a raffish reputation. Review: Helder Guimarães peers into 'The Future' for more Zoom magic. The view is fuzzy 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z Although she kept her raffish charm and outrageous cheek, the song was an effort to shake off the drama that seemed to follow her. Ivorian Doll: From YouTube drama to Queen of Drill 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z It went to an ownership group in a reprise from a gloriously raffish past. Tiz the Law lays down the law, wins 152nd Belmont Stakes to open the reshaped Triple Crown season 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z Brighton, a resort on the south coast, is well known as a raffish, radical place. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Royal Flush 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Having a higher seed come 2,094 miles from home to face a lower seed 249 miles from home can seem raffish and beery. What does Mike Krzyzewski remember about his first NCAA tournament game? A missed call. 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Ivers met Fisher at Harvard; he was a few years her senior and already known about campus as a raffish character. 'An Einstein among Neanderthals': the tragic prince of LA counterculture 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z In other words, unlike Murphy, he wasn’t inspired by the raffish stand-up work of Rudy Ray Moore. Wesley Snipes breaks out in 'Dolemite' as a working actor turned blaxploitation director 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Johnson is famous for his shambling manner, a raffish untidiness that extends from his clothes to his personal life. Boris Johnson Tries On a New Campaign Persona: Disciplined 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The Times Square area was never the exclusive preserve of theatergoers, but Broadway culture elevated the neighborhood’s rough and raffish character. Commentary: Everyone wants a piece of Broadway, but what is Broadway these days? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z From its vantage point on the hill, you can look down over the rather gloomy historic centre of Perpignan, a raffish and secretive city caught between republican France and Catalonia. The soul of Perpignan: how a Gypsy community halted the bulldozers 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z It lends a poignant element of foreshadowing — a glimpse of the darkness ahead — to what is otherwise a raffish, freewheeling book. Review | America’s baseball stadiums: The hits and the misses 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z In the 1930s, the neighborhood around Broadway and Columbus Avenue in Manhattan was more raffish than respectable. Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930s New York 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z During the Nationals, the competitors used the same locker room at the West Side club that was used by its members, who stowed business suits in a wire locker next to a raffish touring star. For the U.S. Open, It’s 40 Years in Flushing Meadows, and Still Missing Forest Hills 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z From an early age, Mr. Trump encountered these raffish types with their unscrupulous methods, unsavory connections and uncertain loyalties. With a Vocabulary From ‘Goodfellas,’ Trump Evokes His Native New York 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z In the tabloids, he continued to play the part of the raffish bad boy. How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The second is Jeremy Irons’ suave and subtle portrayal of James Tyrone — one consummate actor stepping into the raffish skin of another. Lesley Manville and Jeremy Irons fill 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' with sorrow and savagery 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z She’s a casual beauty with elegant tattoos that suggest a raffish past. ‘In the Fade’ Review: On Revenge and Its Limits 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Yet what elevates "Lange" is its wide range of idiosyncratic, delightful characters, its belief in humanity in all its crazy variety, and its abundance of high spirits and raffish charm that are absolutely contagious. 'The Crime of Monsieur Lange' is one of Jean Renoir's least known films. But a restored version shows it's the most pure fun 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z When the raffish Jon Pertwee became the third Doctor, he also became the first to be seen on television in colour. All the Doctors, from William Hartnell to Peter Capaldi - BBC News 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Still, there is something raffish about Fulcher, who is now 50, that doesn’t entirely fit with the picture of the by-the-book copper. ‘How I caught a serial killer – and lost my career in the police’ 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Josephine had always suffered from regular bouts of illness and it is believed her conditions included asthma and bronchitis, not to mention more scandalous afflictions rife in their raffish circles. Josephine Bowes: The forgotten 'pioneer' of the art world - BBC News 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Stravinsky, Cocteau, Chagall, Capote and Gore Vidal all came to visit and Peggy, as a hostess, matured into her own raffish style of grande dame eminence. Sex and art by the Grand Canal: how Peggy Guggenheim took Venice 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z In the neighborhood where the attack occurred — a hybrid mix of the raffish and refined, visited by thousands of tourists daily — Ms. Le Pen’s proposals struck a chord. Attack on Champs-Élysées Injects More Uncertainty Into French Vote 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z I’ve also started wearing more suits, as the scarf adds a raffish touch. ‘I looked like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins’: what’s it like to have a signature prop? 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Four years later, it spawned a more famous and raffish London offspring that sold over 80,000 copies at its peak and became a paradigm of the underground magazine. Richard Neville, 74, a Founder of ’60s Counterculture Magazine OZ, Dies 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Most fans agree that a raffish spirit is one of Panjiayuan’s most appealing features. Unearthing China’s Past at a Market Whose Raffish Air Is a Selling Point 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z In those days it was very raffish and rascally. Frederick Seidel: ‘It's necessary to criticise the left’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z As the press moved from its raffish Front Page period into at least trying to behave like a profession, the Court gave it steadily more protection. How Peter Thiel’s Gawker Battle Could Open a War Against the Press 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z With dark strokes and spare backgrounds, Arno created raffish scenes of potbellied plutocrats and curvy chorus girls amid flowing martinis and a racy ambience. An Homage to New Yorker Cartoonist Peter Arno 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z But those surveys were conducted before Johnson, London’s raffish mayor, broke with expectations and announced Sunday that he would defy British Prime Minister David Cameron by backing the campaign for a British exit, or Brexit. British pound plummets after London’s mayor backs Brexit 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z While lacking the raffish charisma of past Louisiana governors — friends describe him as earnest and no-nonsense — he is well liked by many Republicans, and respected, particularly for his record of military service. New Louisiana Governor, John Bel Edwards, Is Off to a Volatile Start 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Sharing almost nothing with the Candidate on Diamond Dogs but slated for his Nineteen Eighty-Four musical, this raffish stream-of-consciousness plugs Bowie’s Orwell obsessions into his more carnal imaginings. 20 Bowie songs you don’t know - but should 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z But he tempered his raffish ways with stratagems of genteel respectability, which his mother’s presence supported. Why Is “Whistler’s Mother” So Iconic? 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z A vibrant singer, Ms. Scott invests an underlying sweetness of soul into the raffish Deloris, which suggests why the nuns grow so attached to her. Review: The Nuns Are Back in ‘Sister Act’ at the Gateway Playhouse 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Frank had become close to raffish Beats like the poet Allen Ginsberg, and when Evans was hospitalized, he asked Frank not to bring ‘‘any of those friends of yours up here.’’ The Man Who Saw America 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Adam, a raffish man in his sixties, is a classical architect who can recite the exact proportions of a Corinthian column. London’s Most Mysterious Mansion 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Yet there is more of Dizzy’s courage and charisma to the Tory incumbent than is generally known, and not only in the slimline physique and raffish haircut he has adopted. Not just a hatchet man 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Allen Adamson, North America chairman of brand consultant Landor Associates, says paintball has lost a lot of its raffish, renegade luster. Why Paintball Has Gone Splat 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The place has always had a raffish reputation. Ibiza: Mediterranean Nights 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z With big hair, a raffish smile and a history of running part of a bicycle company, she is proving a plausible centrist candidate. Running after Walker 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Part of the appeal of staying here, though, is interacting with the nearest town Tofino, a raffish place with a 60’s surfer spirit and an unusually active restaurant scene. The Perfect Summer Escape: Two Stunning British Columbia Resorts 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Her book-length history of the street and its people, a chatty ramble exploring the back story of an often rough and raffish part of town, is making the rounds of literary agents. The Celebrities of Bank Street 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z One millennial who can speak firsthand of these high costs is Shia LaBeouf, the raffish actor of Transformers fame who also styles himself an auteur. The Internet's Downside For Millennials 2013-12-23T19:05:40Z That closing seems to be a coda of sorts to the heady days of hippiedom in Brooklyn’s more raffish quarters and in much of New York. Batik Store, a Vestige of the Hippie Era, Will Fade Away 2013-07-26T02:07:44Z Black leather booths, black window casings, a big, black wrought-iron wine rack, black cocktail napkins, even black ceilings all strike a raffish contrast with the vermilion walls of the main dining room. | Bloomfield: A Review of Carbone’s Kitchen, in Bloomfield 2013-02-02T02:05:42Z "So," said David Kibuuka, standing at the microphone with a raffish grin at a recent comedy night in a Johannesburg bar. 'No taboos' for Ugandan comedian making South Africans laugh 2012-07-24T14:31:37Z He had not gone far when he saw a young man of a strange raffish appearance coming along the road to meet him. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Its tripartite authorship and raffish character have encouraged editors to bypass it. Three Hours after Marriage 2011-10-10T02:00:20.823Z With his partner, Franco Lagattolla, he created a brand of raffish Neapolitan elegance that caught the 1960s zeitgeist perfectly. Mario Cassandro obituary 2011-08-09T18:19:54Z Casinos have always promised a walk on the wild side, and Atlantic City’s raffish history includes rich, largely forgotten, gay chapters. Gay Bar Opens in an Atlantic City Casino 2011-07-08T17:23:49Z The sight of Bob in the doorway—Bob, perky, expansive, more raffish than usual—did not tend to soothe her either. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z I must confess that it was somewhat of a shock to Regina when she found that among his fellows—young, vapid, rather raffish young men—he was known by the abbreviative of “Alf.” The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel 2011-03-01T03:00:46.487Z It was the extravagant ending to a raffish comedy. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z Remember when Phillies fans had a surly underdog mentality every time the Mets and their raffish fans came to town and took over their ballpark? Sports of The Times: As Cliff Lee Signs, Phillies Are the Targets Now 2010-12-14T18:00:23Z Havana is the racy, romantic getaway where the prim and proper Sarah Brown begins to fall for the raffish charms of the high-rolling gambler Sky Masterson in “Guys and Dolls.” Books of The Times: ?The Sugar King of Havana,? by John Paul Rathbone 2010-08-12T21:45:00Z Haldane looked at him with a sort of good-natured contempt, seeing before him just an ordinary raffish young pup who had probably got quarrelsome in his cups and come off worst. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Bell Rings Again at Yankee Stadium Fistiana, in all its raffish glory, is back in . Sports of The Times: Boxing Returns to Yankee Stadium 2010-06-05T00:50:00Z She was twinkling at Michael, but he would not catch her eye, and he looked steadily over the brim of her hat toward the raffish and rutilant assemblage beyond. Sinister Street, vol. 2 “Now I ought to look raffish enough for anything,” she said cheerfully. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 The Navajo Indians was peevish, the camp dry, grass scant, herd in a raffish mood, and night come sudden. A Man in the Open But the muslin curtains, tied back with raffish pink bows, had really worried her most of all. Carnival We sat in clear view of the main entrance; and there already, with eye-glass lifted, raffish, flamboyant, exuding pomades and bad style, stood my detestable cousin. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) The raffish young gentleman in gloves must measure his scholarship with the plain, clownish laddie from the parish school. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 She was annoyed with Rodd because he was exasperated by the silly giggling of the servant-girls and the raffish capers of the young man. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists When I say that, compared with the butler, Respectability itself seems raffish, you will understand. Anthony Lyveden The quenching of the orange illumination, and the barren waste of empty tables gave the grill-room a raffish look which consorted well with the personalities of the two brothers. Carnival They climbed back into the car, joyously raffish as a pair of gipsies. Free Air A very fine-looking set of fellows they are too: the officers rather raffish, but with medals, Crimean and Indian; the men a very sturdy set, with many lads of good birth I should say. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 The Bracebridges were disappointing: a very dull man, a hard and raffish woman, but apparently to Lady Butcher they were the wonder of all wonders. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists And oh the raffish counts and more than doubtful countesses, the noodles and the blacklegs, the good society! The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete And there are screeching Cockney women, raw and raffish, brutalized children, and men who would survive in the fiercest jungle. Nights in London He bowed cordially to the lady in charge of Miss de Barral’s education, whom he saw in the hall engaged in conversation with a very good-looking but somewhat raffish young gentleman. Chance A Tale in Two Parts It was more glittering, more raffish, more clamant of the tenderloin than ever. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Although the raffish peer denied all complicity, he did not come out of the business too well. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert But the snake goes in for extravagance in ribs and vertebræ; an eccentric, rakish, and improper proceeding; part of an irregular and raffish life. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Even to the clerk's own disturbed imagination the establishment had suddenly grown raffish, and its dingy paint and drab upholstery resembled the make-up and cloak of a scowling tragedian. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York In the gilded halls of the Luxembourg, Barras, surrounded by a raffish court, dispensed the honours and the spoils of the new r�gime. The French Revolution A Short History "I'm surprised to hear you patronize drinking establishments where such raffish elements gather," Narval murmured around the focus of his attention. The Universe — or Nothing He was a picture of raffish, devil-may-care ease. A Man Four-Square In her raffish, rakish world poverty and wry, eccentric-tempered people abounded, and were just part of an enormous joke. The Dark House The ragged raffish man never thinks that he was quite ready to plunder other people; he grows inarticulate with rage only when he remembers how he was bitten instead of being the biter. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour They had reached a very narrow street, where raffish beer-shops were doing a roaring trade. Kimono I thought of Henry's living face, alive with raffish humor and mischief, presiding at a supper in the Beefsteak Room—and of Alfred Gilbert's Beethoven-like head with its splendid lion-like mane of tawny hair. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections A more raffish place was the Dog and Duck in St. George's Fields, which boasted mineral springs, good for gout, stone, king's evil, sore eyes, and inveterate cancers. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays It seemed that she had invited everyone and anyone whose name had come into her head, without regard for taste or sense, and the result, half raffish and half brilliant, somehow justified her. The Dark House Boodles was a dog about town, wearing many scars of combat, a swashbuckler of a dog, rough-mannered, raffish; if not actually quarrelsome, at least highly sensitive where his honour was concerned. The Wrong Twin A very fine looking set of fellows they are, too: the officers rather raffish, but with medals Crimean and Indian; the men a very sturdy set, with many lads of good birth I should say. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin The raffish young gentleman in gloves must measure his scholarship with the plain, clownish laddie from the parish school. Memories and Portraits Even from Paris I was not a little fearful that news of his mixing with this raffish set might get to the ears of his lordship either at the town house or at Chaynes-Wotten. Ruggles of Red Gap Two or three were in evening dress, and one girl who sat at the end of the table and smoked incessantly wore a shabby coat and skirt and a raffish billycock hat. The Dark House And it was,—a raffish, handsome, slender, red-haired fellow, somewhat suggestive of the royal duke, yet rather more like a sneak-thief, and with a whiff somewhere of the dancing-master. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes Bartley's associates were now the most raffish set on the press, or the green hands; and something had brought this to pass in less than two years. A Modern Instance The raffish mongrel was apparently endeavouring to fletcherize a complete stranger of the Sealyham family. The Adventures of Sally Then, to the immense relief of Mrs. Effie and myself, he was released and we were driven quickly off from the raffish set. Ruggles of Red Gap The cider poured over the edge of the glass and over the table-cloth and in a dismal stream on to the lap of the girl with the raffish billycock hat. The Dark House If they could do that, need they ever have shot that raffish old lord—I beg pardon, my dear—your highly respected grandfather? Erema — My Father's Sin He, a nobleman!—to suffer himself to be bound ignominiously by some low polisson of a raffish mushroom country! A Man and His Money He wore a neat dark overcoat, brown shoes, and a bowler hat rather on one side; his appearance was, in fact, genteel, though his air was a trifle raffish. The Secret of the Tower To my astonishment I ate heartily, even in such raffish surroundings. Ruggles of Red Gap But she had an untidy, touzled, raffish appearance, due to I knew not what investiture of disrepute. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel With this raffish little fleet Paul Jones set out to do great deeds. This Country of Ours Rag, and the 'lurking' or raffish Military Snob, Ensign Famish. The Book of Snobs But then, on the other hand, I don't want to be raffish. Beyond I mean to say, we suspected that the apparent charm of the raffish cattle-persons might suffice to keep him from any notorious alliance with the dreaded Bohemian set. Ruggles of Red Gap He made a large fortune, owned the powder-mills at Dartford, sat in Parliament, wrote plays which had some success, and was thought a good fellow in raffish society. The Valet's tragedy, and other studies He bowed cordially to the lady in charge of Miss de Barral’s education, whom he saw in the hall engaged in conversation with a very good-looking but somewhat raffish young gentleman. Chance A Tale in Two Parts I hate raffish people—I simply hate them. Beyond |
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