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.
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Instead, he just threw out a bunch of florid phrases.
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Often symmetrical, her compositions boast flowing, florid forms and biblical references.
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This biography comes to weird, florid life in its middle sections.
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The tweets aren't particularly florid or aggressive, just calculated and crisp.
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I said to him once, 'It can be a little florid.
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The tone can range from florid to juvenile, pleading to poisonous.
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He is, after all, the Liberace of Lying: fluid, florid, flamboyant.
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Jonah, on the other hand, deserves every florid insult lobbed at him.
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It focuses on Dutch artists and their florid, vibrant depictions of flowers.
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Her nose was now florid with life, her little teeth loosely strung.
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Tribes members come wearing florid regalia, bird feathers, and tufts of caribou fur.
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Ebony G. Patterson is an excellent choice for carrying this florid banner forth.
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It's a peculiar decision, considering the florid history of backstabbing between the two.
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It is, in Mr Booker's florid preacherly style, essentially a call for bipartisanship.
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I would love to be more florid, in a way that wasn't annoying.
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Mr. Garfield has the florid mannerisms of a vintage drag queen down pat.
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The British outfit thrilled audiences with florid instrumentation and elaborate stage shows, including pyrotechnics.
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The world is exactly as florid as the fantasist first imagined it to be.
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His performance with the Finnish president was a florid demonstration of his inner self.
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Jumping from topic to topic, he offered raw emotions, non sequiturs and florid exaggerations.
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Her technical agility and lyrical refinement were ideal for the florid bel canto repertory.
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Mr. Polenzani sang the original Munich version of the aria, replete with florid runs.
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Instead, she created viscous semi-abstract and florid paintings that are arguably her masterpieces.
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For all the florid naming, the beers themselves seemed restrained, even polite, on the palate.
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He wrote his dispatches with the florid creativity he had lavished on "Clisson et Eugénie".
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He has a record of political gaffes and use of florid and sometimes undiplomatic language.
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They compose an extinct creed in florid horrors; anthrax and manna, floating on the air.
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Orpheus' vocal lines are typical of the period, with florid ornamentation unfolding within narrow intervals.
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Tall, well-built, and florid, Scobie liked to project a worldly air, former staff recalled.
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While Trump has a habit of praising dictators, his effusions for Kim are unusually florid.
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It was that they'd fully seen the florid whole of him and supported him nonetheless.
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He had deep experience in government and is not given to the president's florid language.
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But Mr. McCormick's plotting, with its florid back stories and unsurprising revelations, is ploddingly predictable.
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The book was almost unreadable, haphazardly capitalized, lacking punctuation and written in florid, apocalyptic prose.
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In his later years, Signac evolved yet again, turning to a more florid and loose approach.
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I saw one of her meticulously geometric, florid laser cut plastic sculptures on a friend's wall.
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There was a gallery for posting photographs of clouds, a membership form and a florid manifesto.
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It is the "America: Love It or Leave It" bumper sticker, expressed in more florid prose.
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This book is at its best when grounded; when it mixes fact with more florid expression.
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His behavior gets more outrageous, out of control and florid as the pressure on him persists.
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On Wednesday, her florid energy found a moment for expression during Brahms's Violin Sonata No. 2.
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I am not speaking here of his much discussed hair, or even his somewhat florid skin color.
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The first is that it is dull, dull, dull in a pretentious, florid and archly fatuous fashion.
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It is a florid tribute to a painting or engraving on — you guessed it — a Grecian urn.
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Daniel Day-Lewis couldn't muster a more mesmerizing performance, and it's an unusually florid surrender of principles.
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Johnson is not -- however florid the exaggerations of some of his critics -- a Nazi or a fascist.
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I was once publicly scolded, in florid Italian, for almost being pickpocketed by a child in Rome.
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The crime and coverup that doomed Richard Nixon's presidency was a florid display of the danger in deception.
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He is a florid middle finger to every one of the cultural elites his followers feel disdained by.
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His direction lacks rhythm and pace, and, as Hoffman says, the dialogue in his own movies grew florid.
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Hill's appeal, whatever the genre, is in his instinct to punctuate long stretches of smoothness with florid bloopers.
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And if you expect me to use less florid wording in relation to Scott fuckin' Walker, look elsewhere.
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Winemakers tried to imitate the oaky, florid style then popular in California, or they tried to make Burgundy.
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Instead she uses her approach to generate increasingly rich and even florid experiments in pure composition and color.
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John Kennedy offered a typically florid aside in a floor speech touting his bill on tackling sexual harassment.
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At this point, these types of incidents do not need a florid introduction, so we'll get right into it.
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As a feminist, Ms Faludi is startled to find Stefánie embracing a "florid femininity" that she herself had rejected.
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But for all the florid prose and dramatic language, the piece failed to acknowledge a number of important issues.
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The result is a resonant, sensitively observed but slightly florid book that ends up blunting its own narrative drive.
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Now, if I was wrong about the ironic cast of your email (and it was merely florid), I apologize.
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A prolific Twitter user, Moon posts an average of 15 times a day, often sharing photographs with florid captions.
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The lettering of his speech is heavy and in cursive — a sign of the florid dominance of his personality.
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Exclamation points, emoji, or slightly more florid vocabulary, can all help to communicate our meaning and avoid awkward misunderstandings.
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Found samples and swooning vocal samples—whether they're real or synthesized is unclear—swell and swirl in complex florid arrangements.
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Everything is drab and rather exhausting as these florid documents struggle hard to communicate what turgid "punk aggression" was about.
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The business world is social-media crazy, too: Tech titans like Marc Andreessen share their thoughts in florid tweet-storms.
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So how disappointing to find her having to carry Julio Medem's florid "Ma Ma," a melodrama only glancing at profundity.
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Egan kept a diary of her trip, in which she documented her misery—"in all its florid detail," she said.
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She also discarded the genre's florid dialogue and sword-and-sorcery themes for terser language and more complex character development.
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Soon, he reached his own studio in Palazzo Donizetti, a florid, Liberty-style building designed by Piero Portaluppi in 1920.
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And while Franklin was as great an orator as his cousin, he understood that florid speeches went only so far.
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Alongside was a "Kitchen Sink" social realism popular in the UK, as well as the more florid, lyrical neo-romanticism.
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Big, florid, deep-voiced man with his polo shirt tucked into his jeans: (lugubriously) Do you have Mark Latham's new book?
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Ellroy acknowledges that he still makes "purportedly clean and direct" writers such as Dashiell Hammett and Ernest Hemingway seem "absolutely florid".
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Business success became a sign of God's favor, and nowhere more than in America did this ethos achieve such florid expression.
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Because reading a 500 or 600-page book, especially one written in florid 19th-century prose, is just way too daunting.
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His face was turned toward the boats, was not set in grimness, but strained with the restraint of sudden, florid emotion.
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As the movie jounces along on florid pronouncements that overstate the obvious, "Fathers and Daughters" defies credibility and insults the intelligence.
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Whatever its accuracy, those interludes prove less interesting -- and more florid -- than the larger structural and societal hurdles that Walker overcame.
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But he strayed a bit in the arias' florid lines, and his manner grew overwrought, even for a mini-mad scene.
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Such florid unpleasantries feel all the more gratuitous because the most compelling aspects of "Boy Swallows Universe" come from real life.
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Even Samar's dope anecdotes found resolution in the revelation that they have been as fictional as they were florid and gross.
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Mr. Calderon writes florid, rapid-fire New Yorkese, which is necessary because his characters' gift of gab is all they have.
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And their masterly and unexpected delivery of Kleist's florid and archaic verse can make the poetic language sound fragile and hesitant.
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On her website, the illustrator Molly Crabapple displays a florid birthday card she sent the imprisoned Ms. Manning three years ago.
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In florid prose, Hendrickson recounts countless episodes tangential to Wright's life or work, meandering onto all manner of occasionally interesting terrain.
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That ultraviolent but concise two-hander, also produced at the Atlantic, considered the brutality of beauty in florid and pummeling terms.
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This "Fille" comes as he seems to be inching away from his trademark florid bel canto roles into weightier vocal fare.
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Nicholas Ludford's "Salve Regina" is a joyous tangle of long, florid lines with the occasional tangy dissonance illuminating a single word.
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" In his typically florid style, Comey wrote in his recent book that Silicon Valley execs "don't see the darkness the FBI sees.
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But his contribution is minimalist—the low-register vocals and florid piano parts that are his signature are nowhere to be found.
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And while it might strike as jarring to change voice, some of us like it when a florid sentence breaks the flow.
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Mr Bashir says he will never again vote for the PML-N, whose leader is condemned in florid graffiti near the shrine.
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Mr. Lapidus was best known for designing some of the most florid hotels in Florida, including the Eden Roc in Miami Beach.
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It's a year for florid disruption, fisticuffs and a rejection of anyone and anything blessed by the guardians of the status quo.
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Besides, he said, the artist had signed her name in florid script on the underside of each of the three-eyed fish.
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He writes you overly long emails in florid prose, or he sleeps with you and doesn't get in touch for weeks afterwards.
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When we finished shopping, Pierre was cozied up to an Italian man with a florid face and getting a great neck rub.
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Another florid Farinelli showpiece, "Son qual nave che agitate," composed by the castrato's brother, Riccardo Broschi, will close the program at Zankel.
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Franz Liszt did not just write deliciously florid operatic piano transcriptions, but tried his hand at a couple of operas as well.
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After a florid breakdown, I'd start over as a locker-room attendant at a squash club run by Forest Whitaker/Morgan Freeman.
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Florid, emotionally overwrought and saddled with a ridiculous plot, it's proof that not every work by a great artist is great art.
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A majestically mulleted survivor, he speaks in a florid manner somewhere between professorial and Twain-like, talking circles around gruffer, terser company.
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In particular, after 1517, reformers in England shifted toward music that was less florid (and less Latin) than traditional Catholic liturgical music.
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Its corridors are stark red, the same florid color of the control panels on the space station in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972).
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It is equally unfair to dismiss MI5, Britain's security service, as one commentator did, as "florid and fruity" in the pre-war years.
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"This is a person who has a pretty florid imagination and motives to use it to hurt Mr. Dulos," Pattis told the Post.
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Armed with his usual arsenal of florid oratory, self-regard and blunt force, he came instead to rally them, someday, around Ted Cruz.
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But how to make a Chinese man look like Mr. Trump, whose complexion tends toward the florid, a tint rarely seen in China?
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For all the florid fighting that her husband did with congressional Republicans, he also moved rightward on occasion, famously signing welfare reform legislation.
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In it, Parra broke with the florid style prevalent in Latin American literature at the time, and adopted a more direct, colloquial style.
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Yet despite the lurid images and florid dialogue, this over-the-top adaptation of Peter Ackroyd's 1994 novel takes itself very seriously indeed.
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Afterward, Little Edie, with her upside-down outfits, florid, looping drawl and naïf-savant proclamations, emerged as a campy philosopher and gay idol.
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My inbox is groaning with statements from previous EPA administrators, scientists, nonprofits, members of Congress, and assorted others, condemning Pruitt's ignorance in florid terms.
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Throughout the album, various instruments provide florid ostinato shades, with increasing subtlety, filling in the background's every corner; the echo effects pile up endlessly.
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Plenty of other Republicans have confronted charges of florid racism and incipient fascism that apply to some of them infinitely better than to others.
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This score shows Rossini balancing the florid Italianate bel canto style with pioneering dramatic grandeur, setting the stage for the French grand opera era.
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But wrapping it in a package of florid bigotry, provocative propositions, crude insults and callous language doesn't seem to have much traction beyond Trump.
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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.
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It seems to contain many florid possibilities of interpretation and thus seems magical — as magic does not conform to our modern canons of causality.
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And Michael Jibson's sardonic ruler cuts so richly florid a creation that the character justifies its own elevated niche in the corridors of camp.
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Over the course of ten tracks, U-zhaan's dextrous hand-drumming weaves melodically through Hasunuma's florid electro-tapestries, making vibrant quiltworks out of minimal pieces.
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Once an obscure blog about "post-libertarian" politics, the site is now a breeding ground for some of the most florid racism on the Internet.
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And growing up in this country, the accouterments that signify a kind of florid, overly enthusiastic preparedness for war frequently gets mistaken for actual strength.
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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.
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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.
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Lowe's Della Torre Cementina is a concrete Moroccan-style tile with a traditional florid pattern in black and white for just 82 cents per tile.
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Martin Johnson Heade, who painted the florid "Florida Sunset with Waterfowl" in 1883-1969 and rendered the swampy crepuscule aflame, came to Florida for his health.
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James's "prose suffers from an acute behavioral flaw," Amis feels—the habit of the "elegant variation", in which proper nouns are later exchanged for florid descriptions.
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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.
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Island Women For a change of pace, introduce your book club to Jessica Hagedorn's raucous, warmly florid novel "Dogeaters," set in the Philippines in the 1950s.
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The exuberantly florid, delirious text ends with a spiraling calligram quoting James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" (1939), in which flower girls represent the colors of the rainbow.
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For the debut of his new independent commercial venture, the Peter Hall Company, he chose a florid drama that had never received much love from critics.
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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.
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Virality feels like an appropriate outcome for these works, given that they're meticulously beaded in thousands of gems and plastic beads to evoke states of florid decay.
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It's a sprawling, dare we say it, Bowie-esque number, Iggy in finer form than ever and Homme's distinctive driving guitar melodies firmly anchoring his florid vocals.
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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.
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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.
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Under a handful of solo monikers and even more collaborations he's made creeping noise, mutated punk, glammy synth pop, florid ambient pieces, among other styles and sounds.
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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.
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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.
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The 1920s were the last gasp for the firm, under the blingier designer Dagobert Peche, whose mirrors and cruets were as florid as his predecessors' were straitlaced.
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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.
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The music he made as GAS felt like the humid haze of a half-remembered afternoon, soundtracked by florid orchestral records creaking and warping in the wet heat.
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"Feud" is also impeccably and lavishly appointed, from the physical replication of the era to the wonderfully florid musical score (by Mac Quayle) and Hitchcock-ian main titles.
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For John Muir, a Scottish-American naturalist who lived in the Sierra Nevada and introduced it to the world in his florid writings, the sequoias were "nature's masterpiece".
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" Other nominees from this year use similarly ridiculous florid language: Ethan Canin (A Doubter's Almanac) compares sex to a "a brisk tennis game or a summer track meet.
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His florid notion of an ascendant "economic nationalism" -- the kind that could birth a generational coalition -- has so far wilted after just seven months in the West Wing.
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The catalog of their barbarisms, from their florid body painting to their taste for milk, even made Rome's imperial strategists doubt the value of conquering them at all.
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And now, somewhere between the two, lies "Hello Again," Tom Gustafson's florid adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa's 1993 Off Broadway show (itself based on Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde").
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In each of these paintings, he extends the original's florid colors, stylized poses, and sinuous costumes to the images and colors he added to the paintings' actual frames.
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The 21942s were the last gasp for the firm, under the blingier designer Dagobert Peche, whose mirrors and cruets were as florid as his predecessors' were strait-laced.
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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.
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"This space is not exactly what I wanted, it's too posh and Haussmannian," Serre says of her light-filled headquarters, which feature parquet flooring and florid ceiling moldings.
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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.
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As the emotionally unstable Elvira, a young Puritan woman in 17th-century England, Ms. Damrau sang with gleaming sound, volatile intensity and fearless execution of florid coloratura runs.
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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.
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The vocalism is here more athletically florid than declamatory, little problem for the fiery mezzo Ann Hallenberg, like Ms. Mingardo unaccountably obscure in America, and her cast mates.
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"The Mosquito" suffers from the necessary myopia of the genre (in addition to some florid writing, repetition, and digressions through blockbuster movies and the Western Civ highlight reel).
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Speak when you really have something to say, and try to avoid the florid and fatuous diplo-speak that can make a secretary of state look and sound ridiculous.
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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.
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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.
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He compulsively upstages Berlin's simpler melodies with fusillades of florid adornment as if to prove that, unlike the songwriter, he can play the piano in more than one key.
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Frankie spends much of their first night together, from post-coitus to pre-dawn, insisting on her ordinariness, especially in contrast to what she sees as Johnny's florid weirdness.
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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.
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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.
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He saunters in midway through as the Dauphin of France, sporting an insolent smirk and spitting florid insults in a French accent so thick it borders on the comical.
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"Obamacare covers very few people," he insisted in Maryland The small problem with these "facts" and so many more in his florid rhetoric is that they are not true.
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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.
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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.
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The director Frank Perry, working with his first wife, Eleanor Perry, and other screenwriters, is distinguished mainly by his skill at eliciting enticingly florid yet intimately vulnerable performances from actors.
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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.
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"Witchfinder General" is a classic example of florid gothic cinema, a British exploitation mode that, along with Italian westerns, graced the grungy movie houses of the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Mr. Thielen plays out the child endangerment angle throughout, building on the early unease with flashback-filler and some florid sadism that suggests the filmmakers share Anna's philosophy toward child care.
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And the work has earned Gorupo customers from as far away as Australia and walk-ins who say his reputation for precise, florid artistry with antique pieces attracted them to him.
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Other people in the industry have derided Mr. Freeman for what some consider the florid language that Blue Bottle uses in its marketing materials and for a perceived lack of seriousness.
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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.
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The perennial flowy pieces that keep clients coming back for more, meanwhile, appeared in the form of patchworked paisley in tawny shades and goddess gowns embroidered with florid Art Nouveau motifs.
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Mr. Wells has a head like a goateed Easter egg and a jolly, florid persona that jazzes up even ordinary stories, as do a groovy live band and lissome backup singers.
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But lacking any reproductions, his florid (often erudite) exegesis of lesser known artists makes the book often ineffectual — short of turning pages with one hand as the other gooses an internet connection.
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He took liberty with the facts in memoirs he ghostwrote for her in 1797, and had a hand in a florid speech she delivered during a paid lecture tour of New England.
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Clinton aides are confident they will win in Florid and North Carolina, but are worried about "toss ups" in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri, states that are more economically and demographically similar to Michigan.
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Underneath these mythic themes, they paint gnarled landscapes in curdled monochromes or florid bursts of color, occasionally scraping off layers of splattered guitars to reveal the doomy drones holding the whole thing together.
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There was a funny "12 months of Communism" calendar hanging in our hotel room — pictures of people in full uniform engaging in seasonal activities, done in that florid Soviet style, with stagy smiles.
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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.
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His article, "Air Maps," was a somewhat florid account of the state of the relatively new science regarding wind, a crucial factor for nautical travel and trade in the era before marine engines.
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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.
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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.
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Some people were crouched close to the ground, reading the florid prose of sympathy, while others trailed their hands over the tops of the bouquets, or the stuffed toys that had been left there.
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Media reports on the discovery are everywhere, occasionally with florid claims, prompting new speculation on the likelihood that we'll discover life on Mars and renewing excitement about future manned missions to the Red Planet.
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This florid presentation, markedly dismissive of the true meaning of that imagery in real families' lives, is telling of how the publishing world views stories of immigrants—and how willingly they'll market our pain.
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In 1961, Mr. Conrad, then a member of Boston Camerata, an early-music ensemble, gave a splendid performance of a florid aria from Monteverdi's "Orfeo" in a concert at the Museum of Fine Arts.
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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.
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Sign of the Times When it comes to facts, some leaders, like many a florid narcissist, will build a palace and gardens around their anxieties and swear allegiance to the flag flying above them.
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Her first two albums, The ArchAndroid (2010) and The Electric Lady (2013), bury a smattering of catchy pop-funk beats beneath fussy arrangements, orchestral interludes, florid filigrees, and social commentary obscured by flights of fancy.
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The production design, for example, is both impressively florid and at times a trifle murky, just as the animals' slightly anthropomorphized faces -- animated using the actors' expressions as the foundation -- occasionally look a trifle distracting.
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Trosch uses oil, often applying it in a thick paste the consistency of peanut butter or putty in florid, hothouse colors and pale, pastel hues — pinks, mauve, celadon greens, sunburst yellows, deep blues, and reds.
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Hours later, Mr. Mattis issued a written statement that, while not as florid as Mr. Trump's comments on Tuesday, still held out the possibility of a massive retaliation that could destroy much of North Korea.
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Bulls and Bears: • Creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien had a hand in the script — their first screenwriting credit since the beginning of the season — so perhaps that explains the abundance of delightfully florid language.
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"Official Welcome" may mock the art world's rituals of florid praise and faux humility, but the performance also reflects Fraser's lifelong sense of being an outsider — a position she consciously draws upon in her work.
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The running commentary makes it difficult to get caught up in the drama, while the intricate nature of the dramatization introduces a florid element closer to Cecil B. DeMille epics than serious history and scholarship.
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This was a tough to act to follow, but the soloist on Saturday was also redoubtable: the soprano Barbara Hannigan, one of new music's reigning divas, in an experimentally florid recent work by Salvatore Sciarrino.
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Or at least that's how it feels right now inside Klaus von Nichtssagend, where obsessive, exuberant and faux-naïve artworks, by 23 artists, make up a florid, occasionally cloying but always heartening summer group show.
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Mr. Trump's florid reputation, past support for abortion rights and harsh language — including a vulgarity he used last week about Mr. Cruz — could alienate social conservatives and establishment Republicans in the state, according to Bush advisers.
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But in giving the right of way to special employees — either those who assert themselves as Makers, or those who feel entitled to florid self-expression in the workplace — the two approaches have something in common.
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And for a filmmaker whose florid politics would later swamp his other talents, it's a sort of memorial in its own right, for a time when he still remembered that wars are fought by real people.
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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.
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But in between penning florid descriptions of Jolie's new home and lavishing praise upon her commitment to humanitarian causes, writer Evgenia Peretz included an anecdote that has eclipsed anything Jolie actually said about her famous marriage.
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Ms. Westbroek's singing mirrored the gradual abandonment of domestic and moral constraints, chiseled and dark-limned at first while still under her husband's roof, then more florid, voluble and bright as Sieglinde gives in to passion.
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It's florid and sometimes inexcusably clumsy but also bracing, bleak and full of nagging questions about why it remains so difficult for some women to access their secret lives, to name — let alone pursue — their desires.
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It does not, for example, fit neatly in with the literature of addiction and recovery, and it offers the reader no vicarious thrills, mostly because its symptoms are rarely florid enough to alienate or even titillate people.
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Although Christianity as I understand it doesn't smile on the florid lying, womanizing, hypersexual vocabulary and assorted cruelties that have been prominent threads in Donald Trump's life, Moore and many other evangelical Christians spared Trump their censure.
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But like the similar cinematic provocateurs John Waters, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Lars von Trier, the young Jackson mitigates the ugliness he's wallowing in by borrowing liberally from florid Hollywood melodramas with their big colors and bigger emotions.
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Leo Africanus, a north African traveller of obscure origin, put Timbuktu on Europe's intellectual map with "Descriptions of Africa", a florid account of his journey from what is now Tunisia to the gold-trading kingdoms of west Africa.
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Maybe JPEGMAFIA was the greatest revelation of all, fresh off florid Internet hype, but showing and proving as though this moment was long overdue, sweating bullets in overalls, so raw that a raptor could take tips (no Aubrey).
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As he unfurls the florid melodies that make up "Broken Arc" or as he splatter-paints notes across the canvas of "Round Up," he has this way of making every moment last for both a blip and eternity.
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A slick-talking man of means, Strand rode into the story on a wave of florid diction, verbally dismantling a fellow prisoner in an internment camp before taking a shine to Nick (Frank Dillane), Madison's heroin-addicted son.
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Released earlier this year, the album of sonnets set to music dramatically commemorates the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death with interpretations that are quintessentially Wainwright—piano-driven, the occasional flurry of strings, his florid tones front and center.
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Instead of a florid tableaux in which you look like Khaleesi stooping to scatter millet for the teeming indigents of Slaver's Bay to snarl and grub over, try a cute Starbucks selfie that shows off your new hat.
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Feb. 24-June 5 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.
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"Hillary's being supported by the father of a jihadist is treated like back-page stuff, presented amid florid excuses and rationalizations," she says, adding, "It was a staffer's mistake, an "unforced error," and Clinton's opponents are "leaping on it.
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Movies & Film Series The director Richard Brooks's florid adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is probably the best approximation Hollywood could have pulled off in 1958, when it was necessary to tiptoe around the main character's sexuality.
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There are moments of florid fun ("nearly all New Deal progressives had sworn a virtual oath to build the postdepression Jerusalem on the bones of Wall Street and its holding company spawn") and sometimes a kind of lyrical pith.
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Anderson captures that with the loving, highly detailed looks at the garments that Reynolds designs and Johnny Greenwood's lush, florid musical score, which swells to crescendos and just as abruptly falls silent, reflecting the protagonist's mercurial moods and melancholy.
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Born in 1897 to Danish parents living in Hamburg, Germany, he was a European intellectual who began his career directing classic plays in provincial Germany and wound up making florid, wide-screen Hollywood weepies like "Imitation of Life" (1959).
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Even with the stamp of genius on it, age has made Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" one of those classics that people avoid — a marathon-length trilogy stuffed with florid melodrama and Freudian psychology, and seasoned with sea chanteys.
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Nayeri's prose can be rich and colorful, bolts of words prettily unfurling; it can also be florid, melodramatic — she sometimes writes with a heavy hand as well as a heavy heart, particularly in the last third of her book.
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In that book, Lucey also took us through the life and poshly hard times of Archie Chanler, who was dashing, wealthy and crazy as a coot, with no modern psychotropic drugs to contain his florid delusions (I am Napoleon).
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While critics admonished Del Castillo's florid words for the drug lord, dubbing it apologia, the actress might have struck a chord with Mexicans on both sides of the border who were growing weary with the conflict's violence and terror.
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Carr seeks to smooth over that awkward format by setting the typed-out script to music that sounds like something from a David Lynch movie, which seems appropriate, since this is all about florid teen love, albeit as conducted via cellphone.
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"Hesburgh," meanwhile, relies a little too heavily on Hesburgh's own words -- read by voice actor Maurice LaMarche, and accompanied by florid music -- in documenting his life from entering the priesthood through his death in 2015, at the age of 97.
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The film is a glimpse into the lives of some of NAMBLA's most prominent boy-lovers, including Leyland Stevenson, who shares his longing for boy flesh, and gives a play-by-play of one of his sexual conquests in florid detail.
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A monument to the ego of its owner, it is raised on florid, sculptural pedestals, each of which displays a map of the earth made of mother-of-pearl — the Western Hemisphere at one end and the Eastern at the other.
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We see him prepare and perform in a school revue which turns out to be a florid flop, though it manages to spoof all sides of the war, from the pizza- and Mussolini-loving Italians to valiant Yankees and bloodthirsty Hitler.
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In between charming character bits, breezy plot development, and total carnage, it also featured what devoted Thrones fans have been clamoring for amid this season's nautical face-offs and florid soliloquies—I'm referring, of course, to people talking about grain rations.
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Still, Spacey's situation isn't the only off-screen event to intrude on the show's florid imaginings, with the Trump administration having seemingly done all it can to give even the most over-the-top political dramas a run for their money.
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Whether writing about people exploring the "mysteries of life" in Casey to his florid descriptions of the bond of marriage in Obergefell to his condescending description of a hypothetical woman who may someday regret a medical abortion in Gonzales v.
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After the shooting in Las Vegas last month, an anonymous Twitter account that describes itself as a "high altitude Übermensch" and "persona non grata in a Leftist paradise" identified Mr. Hyde as the shooter in florid, over-the-top language.
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And amid booming sales, Alessandro Michele, Gucci's creative director since 2015, has introduced the brand's first high-end fine jewelry line, a series of extravagant styles that present the designer's florid evocations of flea market finds as gem-encrusted treasures.
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A newsreel sequence nods to "Citizen Kane," while other shots — and onscreen text that sometimes has the florid formality of silent-film intertitles — would look perfectly at home in a reel from 1919, the year around which the story is set.
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The latest news release from the maker of LaCroix sparkling water was quirkier than usual, which is notable for a company whose public statements routinely feature exclamation marks, florid adjectives and colorful fonts that seem lifted straight off a Tumblr page.
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"The first 16 pages of this 'brief' seemed designed solely to generate adverse pretrial publicity for the defendants, giving the media a rhetorically florid preview of prosecutors' opening argument," said Raymond Brown, one of Menendez's lawyers, in a letter to the judge Wednesday.
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Just beneath the surface at the Eureka rig, sea lions prowl in the crystal clear waters; half a dozen species of rockfish and bright orange Garibaldi swim in the swift currents; and florid carpets of invertebrates and crustaceans cling to the rig's pylons.
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"The first 16 pages of this 'brief' seem designed solely to generate adverse pretrial publicity for the defendants, giving the media a rhetorically florid preview of the prosecutors' opening argument," wrote Raymond M. Brown, one of Mr. Menendez's lawyers, in a response.
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This is largely because the text, which he wrote with Jason Napoli Brooks, is verbose and vague, and so comically overheated that it can feel like a parody of late Tennessee Williams, when that playwright's florid style had graduated to full rococo.
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Most notable is Dev Hynes, who after a brief stop recording as Lightspeed Champion now writes and produces for A-list acts like Basement Jaxx, the Chemical Brothers, and Nelly Furtado (and makes his own florid soul records) under the name Blood Orange.
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Mutual snubs: In a decidedly chilly exchange, Mr. Trump declined to shake the hand of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who then introduced him in a perfunctory way that eschewed the more florid language that she and other speakers have used in the past.
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Their correspondence is full of florid, performative declarations of devotion, and Crystal clearly took many of her mother's teachings to heart, particularly on the importance of maintaining one's individual vision and the need for women to have "impersonal" interests outside the family.
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Macron is also an intellectual who speaks a florid, sophisticated French, the French official pointed out to me, which means that like his Algeria statements, his speeches are too often pitched at the academy, rather than at the street and global community.
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Even compared to her previous albums, Sparrow glows with a sepia-tinged studio glaze, gliding over coiled layers of piano, florid guitar chords, glossy violin hooks supplying drama and urgency; her voice, a buttery, textured thing, is as smooth and rich as the music.
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Four individuals in Florida's Miami-Dade and Broward Counties have come down with Zika infections, with no evidence of their having traveled to an area, such as Brazil, that has a florid epidemic, or of having sexual intercourse with a partner who so-traveled.
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He's made bashful love songs for years, across practically all of his albums (though he often undercut them with florid ugliness, like on "She," from Goblin); he's cared about beautiful chords and '90s neo-soul and the possibilities of orchestrating other voices from the jump.
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Fans of the tense, brittle original and the more florid, baroque American remake will probably be curious to see how the story has been adapted, a process that begins with the discovery of the body not on a bridge but in the Channel Tunnel.
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The authors are not suggesting that Shakespeare stole his material, but rather that he was inspired by the imaginative, florid language in "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels," written in the late 1500s by a minor figure in the court of Queen Elizabeth.
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A vampy host brought over from the Broadway stage (Raymond Edward Johnson, at first, then Paul McGrath from 1945 onward following Johnson's enlistment in the war effort) would ham it up as he introduced the night's diversion with florid language that would make Edgar Allan Poe proud.
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The cogs don't actually mesh until over halfway through, which is a little late, but the question of who is going to do what to whom keeps you queasily engaged, especially after the Worker modifies his plan of rape and murder in favor of something more florid.
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The gift for broad, somewhat florid melodrama that Ms. Thomas has shown in "Call the Midwife" doesn't match up with the delicacy of the emotions and the subtlety of the relationships in "Little Women," Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel about the four March sisters of Massachusetts.
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Known for his florid, profane speech and for a gigantic shark aquarium in his office, he enjoyed for years effective control over Ukrnafta, a nominally state-owned oil company that sold crude oil at below-market prices to Ukraine's largest petroleum refinery, which he also controlled.
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But the bits of clarity that peek through lend depth and weight to her smoggy sound world, there is the promise of a bountiful, florid world outside—a distant garden maybe—where all the gloomy melodies and memories contained in her recordings would dissipate in the afternoon sun.
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Known for a florid pen, a sense of humor and unimpeachable conservative positions on religious liberty, guns, business regulation and administrative power, he may be the perfect candidate to emulate the operatic flamboyance and preference for legal textualism and originalism of Scalia, who died nearly a year ago.
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Known for a florid pen, a sense of humor and unimpeachable conservative positions on religious liberty, guns, business regulation and administrative power, Gorsuch may be the perfect candidate to emulate the operatic flamboyance and preference for legal textualism and originalism of Scalia, who died nearly a year ago.
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As narrated by actor Paul Roebling over the strains of a weepy folk ballad, the letter is the foundation for the documentary's most iconic moment: a beautiful message from a fallen soldier to the wife he would never see again, indelibly stamped with Burns's florid, melodramatic presentation of it.
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Rainer reserves the highest flourishes of style for scenes of anguished historical and intimate complexity—a florid crane shot, on a movie set, of a performance of writings by Eldridge Cleaver endorsing rape as a political weapon, and fluid tracking shots of Carlos and Brenda in a dancelike pose.
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The Italian bel-canto style is nothing if not star-driven, and to wrap up his series Crutchfield has chosen one of the Met's brightest young talents, Angela Meade (above), to take the role of Imogene in a semi-staged performance of Bellini's florid "Il Pirata," on July 8.
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There are illustrations for a 254 edition of "Satyricon," the fifth century A.D. poem about a retired Roman gladiator and his 21966-year-old male lover, and photographs and videos documenting Ms. Fini's escapades in Paris and Corsica, outfitted in florid masks and costumes of her own design.
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And I happen to know intimately that the authors weren't always the most informed: One of my first paid writing jobs was for a travel-book company, where I penned florid prose about sea turtles in Costa Rica a full three years before I ever set foot in the country.
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The infinitesimal knot-work, teeming squibs, and countless dots and spirals populating the jam-packed masterpiece "Hieroglyph of Light" (1966-67) call to mind hypnotic plait-like designs, interlacing arabesques, and girih tiles of Islamic art or the Gaelic script and florid miniatures of the Christian The Book of Kells.
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You feel ashamed, but also enlightened, because at least you have named the sin: You belong to a nation of bloodthirsty colonizers (Howard Zinn), or anti-intellectuals (Richard Hofstadter) or, in Kurt Andersen's latest opus, a people who have committed themselves over the last half century to florid, collective delusion.
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What emerges, though, is a rather florid, disjointed conversation, one where Morris' attempts to challenge and confront Bannon -- who mixes discussing apocalyptic visions of insurrection with his love of old movies -- feels mostly cathartic for the filmmaker, ultimately, without yielding much additional insight to understanding Bannon that hasn't already been said.
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Ms. Kilimnik is exhibiting her effusively florid paintings alongside the Carnegie's decorative arts collection, as if to show how the salon-style hang, created to bring art (and intellectual discourse) to mass audiences in the French salons of the 18th and 19th centuries, could also be a form of aspirational kitsch.
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Last Wednesday, Inga Davidsson of Area ID was hanging an Italian chandelier of florid amber-colored glass ribbons and curlicues tipped in red, Venetian style ($21,950) in her 315-square-foot booth: a north facing spot with a window, prime real estate that she is renting for $3,200 a month.
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The book, written by a gay, nonbelieving French journalist, Frédéric Martel, makes a simple argument in a florid, repetitious style: The prevalence of gay liaisons in the Vatican means that clerical celibacy is a failure and a fraud, as unnatural and damaging as an earlier moral consensus believed homosexuality to be.
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"Our communications — which Reitman now claims constituted sexual harassment — were between two adults, a gay man and a queer woman, who share an Israeli heritage, as well as a penchant for florid and campy communications arising from our common academic backgrounds and sensibilities," she said in a statement to The New York Times.
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While the Post's Rogin is right to see Trump as abandoning the tradition of Reagan, it's also true that the president is returning to the hard-edged realpolitik of earlier Republican presidents like Herbert Hoover or Richard Nixon, who had little use for florid rhetoric about America as the pillar of global democracy.
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" More recently, Anthony Lane wrote this florid passage in the New Yorker: "Then, there's the voice; like Bacall, Veronica Lake, and Jessica Rabbit before her, Johansson appears to speak to us through a stream of invisible smoke, and her seductive nonappearance as Samantha, in 'Her,' showed how much body survives in the disembodied.
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And playing a panoply of roles that include the authorial surrogate known as B.J.J., Ken Nwosu shifts from earnest to florid and back again, inviting us into the apparent fun house that is Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins's imagination — until the writer locates an image so potent that a playgoer's ready laughter starts to freeze.
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Dressed in a confusion of stretchy black clothing and scarves, the two women were sharing a sofa in the upper half of a sleek duplex at 663 Fifth Avenue, where the flagship of Elizabeth Arden's signature spa, the Red Door, moved five years ago from the florid former Aeolian Building two blocks north.
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"Our communications — which Reitman now claims constituted sexual harassment — were between two adults, a gay man and a queer woman, who share an Israeli heritage, as well as a penchant for florid and campy communications arising from our common academic backgrounds and sensibilities," she wrote in a statement to The New York Times.
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Each time Russia has been accused of having a hand in acts like the seizure of Ukrainian government buildings in Crimea or the 20013 shooting down of a Malaysian passenger plane over eastern Ukraine, in which nearly 300 people were killed, Moscow has responded with a mix of self-pity, fierce denials and florid conspiracy theories that put the blame elsewhere.
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"It's florid and sometimes inexcusably clumsy but also bracing, bleak and full of nagging questions about why it remains so difficult for some women to access their secret lives, to name — let alone pursue — their desires," she said.) "Three Women" follows the sex lives of three American women (two are given pseudonyms), exploring the moments of passion that altered their lives.
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Even in the service of this exegesis, as one pores over his own words to determine his trajectory as a man, it is difficult to shake the preexisting image of Sanders with which the nation was first confronted: florid; white-haired; bespectacled; and raising his finger high into the maw of a debate-stage klieg light, making his points about billionaires yet again.
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It's not quite the Reggia di Caserta (the 1,000-plus room palace 18 miles outside Naples, built on the model of Versailles), but this neo-Classical jewel is a sumptuous introduction to the florid tastes of the city's golden age, with its gilded chandeliers, frescoed Pompeii-style bathroom, intricate boiserie panels and spectacular English garden, all putting on the airs of earlier illustrious eras.
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A slow, tender, florid love ballad, it nudges a singer toward all sorts of overstatement and mannerism (although Mathis's original is magical), and boy does Bowie succumb to temptation — he lets his voicebox bleed all over the microphone, inserting all sorts of unnecessary quavers and whispers and melismata, and when the music drops out so he can bellow "Don't you know you're life… itself!!" he almost faints from the melodrama.
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WW's piece is full of florid language like this: However sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have already ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us.
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In a statement to The Times, she says: Our communications — which Reitman now claims constituted sexual harassment — were between two adults, a gay man and a queer woman, who share an Israeli heritage, as well as a penchant for florid and campy communications arising from our common academic backgrounds and sensibilities … These communications were repeatedly invited, responded to and encouraged by him over a period of three years.
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Mr. Trump, on the other hand, appears likely to rely on the organization as much as ever: Amid florid rhetorical detours to rail against the inquiry led by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian involvement in the 2016 election, and to hail Kanye West for his recent string of supportive comments, Mr. Trump focused chiefly on Friday on rallying the pro-gun crowd against Democrats.
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Seeing "A Brighter Summer Day" in the early 1990s as part of a touring package of Taiwanese films, I was impressed by Mr. Yang's synthesis of detached European art cinema and florid Hollywood youth films; familiar yet exotic, his movie seemed a Michelangelo Antonioni version of "West Side Story" or a Wim Wenders remake of "Rebel Without a Cause," with the added frisson of pop ballads by Frankie Avalon and Ricky Nelson performed by Taiwanese singers in phonetic English.
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I don't wish to offend classical aesthetes by rattling off a list of reasons why I don't often listen to their music, but this album could have suffered from any number of problems — excess asceticism, instrumentalists showing off, an overly prissy ideal of beauty, an overly florid sense of romanticism, especially the European kind whereby the musicians play in an open square while listeners dine outside at a nearby bistro watching a crimson sunset, feeling the wind blow through their hair.
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But then Mr. Shawn does not necessarily care for psychological logic, or logic of any kind, as indicated by what happens to Marie on her way to the shindig: She encounters a little dog, then enters a mysterious, otherworldly garden and temporarily falls asleep — echoes of Dorothy ending up in a poppy field in "The Wizard of Oz." At the party, alcohol makes Bruce drop his debonair mask; he tells Marie that they don't have enough sex (his actual words are rather more florid) and recounts in graphic detail a pleasurable encounter with another woman.
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