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"flowery" Definitions
  1. covered with flowers or decorated with pictures of flowers
  2. smelling or tasting of flowers
  3. (usually disapproving) (of speech or writing) too complicated; not expressed in a clear and simple way
"flowery" Synonyms
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381 Sentences With "flowery"

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One was of Mama, dead on her hospital bed, wearing a flowery nightdress and draped in a second flowery cloth, the oxygen tube still taped to her nostrils.
If the metaphor is too flowery for you, pick another.
Fatima could see their skullcaps bobbing above the flowery hedge.
I remember, she was wearing a long, white, flowery skirt.
Or, if that's a bit flowery, these are wonderful scenes.
The document can be long or short, flowery or concise.
Audrina wore a pretty white dress with a flowery lei.
My personal preference is towards erotica that isn't too flowery.
It's a soft cheese with a flowery rind all around.
Pink isn't banned from our house; neither are flowery dresses.
Judge Gorsuch argued that the flowery stuff was an aside.
Instead, they couch their extremism in more flowery, patriotic language.
A light breeze gently combs the lush, flowery field around you.
Ariel, the flowery aquatic princess, isn't who she's interested in, though.
FLOWERY LANGUAGE Almost finished solving but need a bit more help?
I don't have that flowery, yummy language right at my fingertips.
He smelled of aftershave, some aggressive assertion mixed with flowery scents.
In the Afghan tradition, love is often expressed through flowery poetry.
Doris Weiserova, one year younger, sketched butterflies fluttering through a flowery meadow.
Mixed with flowery and floral stuff, the fecal note keeps you interested.
It's not about it being more flowery or decorative or even intellectual.
Avoid the flowery language and details, and get straight to the meat.
My outfit is black jeans, black booties, and a blue flowery top.
Ella Baker was not interested in elite strategy sessions or flowery oratory.
He used Sichuan peppercorns, crab bisque, and a bunch of other flowery techniques.
And in a world of overly flowery emails, that's not so bad, right?
The keyboard's font also has been replaced with a flowery, almost-handwritten design.
It's not as flowery, but somehow, in Van's hands, it's just as effective.
" French used less flowery language on Twitter, where he called the order "weaksauce.
As he divides his kingdom between three daughters, Lear confuses flowery words with love.
Her voice, adept at elastic runs and flowery embellishments, is also soulful and sincere.
Two years later, its main output is still flowery paeans to its own greatness.
Valter Vinotto snapped this pic of catkins, a flowery spike found on hazel trees.
In fact, the whole town smelled "sweet and flowery" thanks to Apelian's soap factory.
The language was flowery; I "beseeched" myself to be a good (and thin) person.
How do you think she felt about my flowery course since I left her?
I didn't need flowery emails or fluffy notes, because none of that served a purpose.
She looks lovely; like an auntie who smells like flowery perfume and would spoil you.
Even financial forms such as proxies and annual statements are rife with these flowery statements.
Both Kim and Moon have employed similar flowery, colorful rhetoric during their meetings this year.
His writings exhibit an interest in the corporeal beauty of everyday life, however decadent or flowery.
Toughen Up Fem Prints Ground flowery prints with hard outerwear, like this no-frills leather jacket.
On Instagram, the hashtag #TinderWedding has more than 1,700 photos of happy couples and flowery nuptials.
A lot lose their flowery notes and become more acerbic and aggressive as time goes by.
In the city centre, small coffins wrapped in flowery plastic were stacked outside a carpenter's shop.
Inside, it's a Victorian-style den with dark wood finishes, flowery wallpaper and warm Edison lights.
We've got good news for anyone who's always felt like flowery patterns were just too precious.
"I lead with that kind of language, and it is often flowery and complimentary," he said.
She was shown walking along a leafy path, wearing a flowery dress, her hair newly styled.
The prose is lilting and rhythmic — it practically begs to be read aloud — but never flowery.
Then they put this fruity and flowery white paste all over my forehead, cheeks, nose and chin.
The song is pretty classic Disney, using a lot of flowery words without really being about...anything.
He also asks us, and his friends at Fox News, not to embarrass him with flowery tributes.
With flowery, poetic lyrics, they declared loyalty to a vanished lover, vowing to wait until death. Waiting.
Visser provides a dramatic entrance to the home, with its flowery, swan-like baluster emphasizing Horta's flourish.
In 1981, Princess Diana left for her honeymoon in this light, flowery wrap dress by Donald Campbell.
Optional "White Glove" treatment adds professional photography, detailing and extra help with the not-too-flowery writing.
She indicated a nearby outfit: a lustrous bronze silk dress with matching bonnet and flowery tan shawl.
Leading the pretour was Frances Brook, a redoubtable Englishwoman with an authoritative manner and a flowery hat.
I think the writing of the show is really similar, where none of it is very flowery.
"We forgot to put in a deadline," she said sheepishly, her face framed by a flowery headband.
Blooming into this year's Met Gala, Emily Blunt makes a sparkling solo entrance in a fresh flowery design.
Republicans tweet out flowery statements on MLK Day and even insist that King was one of them, ignoring
They aren't flowery, long, or heavy-handed — they're simply brief, soothing statements meant to be read before bedtime.
Is it true that kung fu has basically been reduced to dancing and its more flowery forms today?
Q: Most female products are packaged in what is assumed as feminine fashion - pink, flowery and the like.
But you were giving me all these flowery shirts and I just didn't want that kind of thing.
I can't resist a grey autumn coat and a flowery military green backpack, which set me back $55.88.
Rows of half-finished houses have a magic-beanstalk feel to them, sprouting columns, balustrades and flowery stucco.
Fans and press put Italy's Francesca Michielin's flowery performance number five, despite odds suggesting a mid-table finish.
I serve the sandwiches on flowery picnic plates on a bright yellow Provençal tablecloth with wildly patterned napkins.
Crasthorpe wasn't wearing her pale-cream dress but, instead, a flowery one he had also become familiar with.
Mr. Pompeo and Kim Yong-chol began their meetings on Saturday in Pyongyang with the customary flowery greetings.
And that's when President Trump needs to strip away the flowery talk and be his usual blunt self.
There are also other more vague categories like "aphrodisiacs" or "environments" category (think: chocolate or a flowery field).
"When you're not delivering it in person, there's no incentive for flowery rhetoric or dramatic appeals," he added.
Zusak seems to use the device of his unearthly narrator as license to be overly flowery and needlessly arty.
Instead, its perfumed like an old-school, flowery French product, which can rile sensitive noses, but didn't overpower mine.
Last week, IBM issued an absolutely worthless statement about the ban using the most absurdly generalized and flowery language.
Don't worry about being flowery with your language — focus on being clear and direct with everyone that you encounter.
"I'm actually a flowery writer," Parent, who also publishes on services and apps like Amazon, Episode and DuoLingo, admitted.
In other words, Mr Corbyn's operation has decided it needs to ditch the flowery stuff and nobble its enemies.
" In another note, he paid flowery tribute to his young wife, whom he referred to as "my little darling.
For McFaul, it is important that Trump not use "any flowery language about what a great leader" Putin is.
News Analysis PHILADELPHIA — He spoke of desiring her: her thick blond hair, her flowery white skirt, her magnetic personality.
He also simplified Díaz's dense, flowery writing, which is filled with long digressions ranging from footnotes to entire chapters.
These funds talk a big game, using a lot of flowery language, Fishwick told Reuters in a phone interview.
Winfrey wore a blush pink tiered dress with a lace trim, along with a large flowery hat and sunglasses.
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons can afford to be patient with Julio Jones's return from a sprained toe.
The reward for doing all of that was a Moobloom – a flowery cow that plants flowers as it walks.
Young men sweating in woolly calf warmers and felt hats were grinding up to young women in flowery aprons.
It's hard to imagine the mother of a dying child accepting this as more than flowery words, but she does.
Some of his most famous additions to the ranch, like a train station and a flowery clock reading 'Neverland', remain.
Honestly, I'm a fan of this flowery chaos — if anyone can pull it off, it's this gorgeous group of girls.
While 2005's "I'm 'N Luv (Wit a Stripper)" was a poetic masterpiece, "Gifts" is less concerned with flowery language.
He thinks and talks in very flowery stream-of-consciousness prose, stuffed with references to writers and concepts long forgotten.
Criticism intensified this month when a Founder Securities analyst broadcast her research report from home dressed in a flowery kimono.
Keller, who grew up a Braves fan in nearby Flowery Branch, Ga., was making his first career start against Atlanta.
Thigh-grazing dresses in an array of flowery patterns, some with structured shoulders and billowing sleeves, closed the catwalk show.
When the bullet came, it wasn't the blaring noise I'd feared, but a whistling shot followed by a flowery fragrance.
"He would point at the screen and there would be an actor with a flowery shirt on," Mr. Heath recalled.
Trader Joe's unveiled a flowery "Flight of Fancy" float complete with parachuters and a giant banana against a Seussian landscape.
"I used to wear very tight jeans and blue suède shoes, when everyone else was wearing flowery dresses," she said.
Lipstadt, a sixty-nine-year-old redhead, wore a flowery silk scarf that she'd loaned to Weisz for the film.
My sisters and I went to parochial school; I wrote flowery poems about the Virgin Mary for the church bulletin.
Nothing irritates Eurocrats more than the apparent British belief that details can be settled by what one calls a "flowery declaration".
Instead, Cruz offered a flowery tribute to Ronald Reagan and conservatism that sounded like a stump speech for a future campaign.
This mysterious but oddly pointed instruction was a far cry from the veiled, flowery language I'd seen on other zodiac sites.
Using a walker, Richards made her way into court wearing a flowery top and black slippers, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
With ample real estate for flowery language, these confections served as icebreakers at adult social events, such as parties and weddings.
Camila Alves looks angelic from the front with a flowery dress that coincides with her beauty ... and on second glance -- BAM!
Keller, who grew up as a Braves fan in nearby Flowery Branch, Ga., was making his first career start against Atlanta.
The woman in the fur toque bustled by with her housekeeper, weighed down with a shopping bag full of flowery linens.
Indeed, it's more likely the flowery promises that are supposed to please everyone and burden no one will bore you stiff.
They were both affectionate and flirtatious, flowery and yet occasionally vulgar, and would come until the wee hours of the night.
I thought I found my tribe—people who were from the estates who loved being creative but weren't flowery or lovey.
Flowery vocabulary muddles an already muddled plot: Inland is a grand and rollicking novel, reminiscent of Dickens or H. Rider Haggard.
Eva becomes frustrated by Zelman's flowery words about his late wife and finally shares the opinions she has been pushing down.
Sometimes they'll write flowery language about "partnering" with a brand or give out a discount code with their name on it.
The result was a flowery frock that perfectly matched Sierra's — and the photos of the pair posing before prom do not disappoint.
While the language was flowery, perhaps, it's not wrong to say that nutritious whole foods like spinach and asparagus are health-promoting.
Rebecca embraces Kate with a mix of flowery compliments — she says she was "amazing" and sang "incredibly beautiful" — and near-imperceptible critiques.
She shows this with the boxing gloves covered in lace and satin, in intricate beadwork, in flowery filigree, in ribbons and bows.
" As the gig got started, Rush sent Stone text messages that the Times called "affectionate and flirtatious, flowery and yet occasionally vulgar.
STRIDING around describing plants and animals, often in flowery prose from behind a desk or a camera lens, seems rather old-fashioned.
Ryan said earlier this week he expects Jones to report with the veterans, who are due at Flowery Branch by 4 p.m.
And even if your beloved isn't the flowery type, they can always make you a cake later with your gift. Win-win.
When Jailyn received a "flower" from Jamarcus just because, she got something a little less flowery and a little more salad-y.
While flavors such as elderflower have floated around in the international market, expect to see more flowery flavors in the new year.
He is America's imported fantasy of a cute, flowery, British man in the nicely rounded vein of a family-friendly Mick Jagger.
Kate became our dungeon master, the narrator of our adventure, who sets the scene using maps, dice, flowery language and silly accents.
A flowery tribute to a man who sexually objectified women, portrayed them as subservient to men, exploited them, and profiteered from pornography.
What he did in her childhood bedroom with its two large windows and pink, flowery sheets, as she lay there, feeling powerless.
The author makes perceptive and often comic observations, using anecdotes in place of flowery adjectives to make for precise and unique commentary.
Will is seemingly unaware that Stella has an older sister until he asks about the drawing of the flowery lungs on Stella's wall.
Model Kaia Gerber showed off a bright pink, skirted version with flowery, white shoulders, while others wore longer versions of the tweed skirts.
Kehagiaras' iteration of the tiki may not include cutie umbrellas or flowery garnishes, but it does include plenty of rum and tropical flavors.
That's because wine drinkers actually think wine tastes better if they've heard it described in that flowery manner associated with high-end sommeliers.
Even Bey herself returned to the flowery feels when she announced the birth of the twins — a boy, Sir, and a girl, Rumi.
That sort of flowery cheerleading might come off like naïve hippie bullcrap from most bands, but not the way Culture Abuse sings it.
Rilke's flowery — and daresay twee — verses do not jibe with today's tastes for cut-and-dry clarity, blasé irony, and Tweet-able brevity.
Could this be the beginning a flowery new shower and bridal trend, or will objections to flowers in peoples' drinks hold it back?
Mr. Brown wore gray slacks and a double-breasted navy blazer, while Ms. Palm chose a Dolce & Gabbana three-quarter-length flowery dress.
Beauty was redefined as something simpler, less constructed, echoed in interiors where shiny damask and flowery chintz were tastefully reswaddled in textured neutrals.
The crowd laughed and cheered as they delivered flowery speeches, weaving jokes with witty rhymes, beauty-queen platitudes and proclamations on gender equality.
Aurora rules benevolently from her flower throne, smiling over a menagerie of flowery, floofy and leathery creatures great and small, cutesy and stately.
Before the auction, Klimt's flowery painting, "Bauerngarten (Blumengarten)" was bought by Sotheby's from its owner, David Graham, a Canadian collector based in London.
An old album with a flowery cover contained pages upon pages of photos featuring a woman with some of Hollywood's most famous celebrities.
Our leading researchers prefer the concrete to the abstract, the causal claim you can rigorously test to the flowery theoretical description you can't.
Noisey: You wear a lot of pink and pastels as your signature, and the cover art for Volume 1 is super flowery and delicate.
Britain will be now led by a flamboyant figure known for his ambition, untidy blond hair, flowery oratory and fragile command of policy detail.
She thought the flowery scent coming from the jacuzzi bubbles offered a better way to introduce the sensation of smell into the porn experience.
They are not a flowery sign of late spring or early autumn, but the trend of neon yellow tennis gear is reaching its peak.
She also wrote flowery diaries for Serbian newspapers that were dissected for hints of the Milosevic regime's latest political favorites and its next victims.
Observers also noted that Tass, which often carries rather flowery tributes to the "success" of Soviet space missions, conspicuously claimed nothing for Luna-15.
But the imagery is sensational: a shifting gallery of white sake cups, blue and yellow candles, and rosy oranges pictured against flowery ornamental backgrounds.
We see that optimism in all of his most important opinions — and indeed in the soaring (some say overly flowery) language of those opinions.
The Beginning The book opens on the Stella, our heroine, looking at a drawing of flowery lungs, which was done by her older sister Abby.
Now, if we were to translate all those happy, flowery feels into beauty product-form, we'd throw in sparkles, cotton candy colors, and adorable names.
That's why some people can have such averse reactions to certain scents, like flowery perfumes or heady lotions, and other people are comforted by them.
Considering both Ford and Lucas are notoriously reticent, it's perhaps unsurprising that their official statements on Fisher's death are straightforward and unencumbered by flowery platitudes.
FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) -- If ever there was a setting for a Matty Ice meltdown, it was in last week&aposs game at the Jets.
Always. And lastly, Drew Barrymore is embracing the groundbreaking spring trend (you know, florals) with her seasonal ensemble: a flowery pleated Topshop midi skirt ($115).
Like Del Rey's flowery prose about thoughts and vibrations, they're an embrace of an aesthetic, rather than a rigorous practice with cultural and religious significance.
Many, including "The Bloody Chamber," feature somewhat flowery sex scenes that bring to mind the words "throbbing member" even if the particular phrase isn't invoked.
On the day T visits, she is wearing a flowery denim dress: "You can machine wash it, and the embroidery's quite robust, actually," she says.
Volatile weather and traditional regulations are translating into grapes of wrath Story at a glance There's a flowery weed growing between the vines of Bordeaux.
The work, often consisting of swirly patterns and flowery ornament (thus coded as female), was greeted as a relief from the sobriety of conceptual art.
Facebook cannot mimic my sister's flowery handwriting, remind me how she smelled when wearing her favorite perfume or hug me the way she used to.
Within three weeks, so many people were influenced to come pose in the flowery hills that the city had to figure out how to intervene.
I had a cake from this book nearly every year up until my 21st birthday (the flowery No. 4 reimagined into a sophisticated 2-1).
From black lipstick to flowery dresses to sleek suits, no outfit is complete without the flash of a stylish and daring shoe like Doc Martens.
Everyone would have looked past the excesses in its filing, the voraciousness of the founder's side dealings and the absurdity of all the flowery language.
If you aren't getting bogged down in the flowery details of forms and lineage, there are really only two types of karate—knockdown and point style.
He kind of forsakes his words at the end when he asks himself what he's doing, running his mouth and saying all this inane flowery shit.
I found the tea to be really fragrant and flowery, and the boba, while not as fresh as some of its bubbly brethren, soft and chewy.
Christ Church College is popular with tourists, but Magdalen College — with its quiet cloister, large deer park and flowery water meadow — is equally impressive (entry, £6).
The larger of the two main exhibitions, "Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau/Nouvelle Femme," puts the spotlight on the Czech artist and his flowery Art Nouveau images.
He was asked by the senator in charge, Claire McCaskill, to explain his use of "flowery" language to champion weight loss fixes that don't actually work.
So as the new Republican health care proposals are unveiled, look beyond the flowery rhetoric to see what the real impact of these ideas would be.
BTW, before Irvin got all flowery -- he explained why the Rams will be the hottest team in the league for top free agents this off-season.
However, as a result of the controversy, Dr Haleel plans to use her real picture—not her flowery avatar—in street level campaign posters from now on.
The Floral Mini It's easy to give off party vibes in a ruffled, flowery frock — especially when glittery tights, silver booties, and a wool beret are involved.
If the check wasn't so overwhelming, we would be fawning over the plastic pastel pink and green jackets, pastel silk dresses, and flowery tulle skirts and gowns.
They drive pristinely kept Toyotas and Nissans, the seats often covered in flowery lace and the doors rigged to open and close automatically, minimizing interactions with customers.
Bercow's flowery-yet-feisty style during Brexit debates has made him something of a cult figure among global television news audiences and on Brexit-following social media.
Their rooftop swansong concludes not with the band breaking up, and launching mediocre solo careers, but a flowery, uplifting camera sweep across London, Liverpool and the world.
She imagined Marise unpacking them in some room of flowery frivolity she couldn't clearly visualize and feeling a pang for the insufficiency of her own maternal care.
I'm no poet, but that was perfect for my plan: I would pack my page with the most sickeningly trite, cliché and flowery words I could muster.
Her decisions to discard flowery conventions, and to limit herself to the number of the lines in the original poem, produce a version both fleet and vivid.
Retired men in head-to-toe Hawaiian print and women in floppy hats and flowery skirts sat on wheelchairs and folding stools, exchanging gossip over card games.
Mental Floss uncovered a number of trademarked scents in 2015, including the "flowery musk scent" in Verizon stores, strawberry toothbrushes, and the coconut smell in Flip Flop Shops. 
Bouqs is our go-to for online flowery delivery service — they partner with eco-friendly farmers around the world to bring only the best flowers to her door.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Transforming traditional flowery Roma patterns into bold, modern prints, designer Erika Varga aims to use fashion to increase acceptance of the Roma minority in Hungarian society.
Hirato writes: "A Caricature of Early Dawn" Train sending off many carts, married lady, giant watch store, the pedestrian walk lasting quite a ways away, a flowery scene.
You would not believe she ever did intense grey and black intelligent abstractions in the forties before you were born, if you just saw this flowery stuff now.
After all, Macron has long been derided for his love of pompous allegories and unnecessarily flowery language -- and France isn't exactly known for its restraint in that area.
When the regulatory burden drowns out productivity and innovation, the flowery rhetoric we often hear from politicians about small businesses is seen for what it is: lip service.
Sometimes I worry that people won't know what the hell I'm saying, but that's a risk worth taking if you want it to sound all flowery and weird.
By combining homoerotic images of musclebound men with embroidered sections of flowery cloth, and by emphasizing the calligraphic Arabic script, he seeks to challenge assumptions about Muslim masculinity.
This is replicated on a larger scale in the rest of the world, where the flowery promises of politicians to combat climate change do not match their actions.
Here, from left to right, are enoki mushrooms; pork kidney, cut into flowery shapes that vaguely resemble miniature porcupines; and pig artery, served in pearly-white, curling slices.
But The Favourite injects a bit of color into the monotone, since it's the early 18th century, and people still speak in flowery language, at least at court.
In rural Madagascar, men are prized for kabary: flowery, indirect speech that avoids putting other people on the spot, a mode that is thought to be beyond women's abilities.
Surveillance video from the Flowery Branch Chick-fil-A shows Simmons, 19, climbing through the window and running to the car where the boy was in the back seat.
In 315 flowery characters, it urged his subjects to cultivate loyalty, filial piety and, above all, a readiness to dedicate their lives to the survival of the imperial house.
According to the magazine, Katie Hetzel, a freshman at Flowery Branch High School in Georgia, was studying for her literature class, and looked up the word "laurel" on Vocabulary.com.
Soon, the pink letters full of flowery phrases take over her life, and her garrulous fiancé Jignes (Chandan Roy Sanyal) starts to pale in comparison to her unknown suitor.
At one time, crazy ideas received serious contemplation by some pretty sharp minds, and even "very stable geniuses" to quote the flowery, if peculiar, way our president described himself.
The left and right sides of the flowery base on which she stands differ greatly, as do the bordering columns and the cascading drapery that soften the top corners.
The challah became laced with flowery Mexican cinnamon and tart apples, the matzo balls filled with herbs and onions, and the gefilte fish dressed in a guajillo pepper sauce.
Runyon, who died in 1946, made up quite a bit of his flowery vernacular, and his prose can now be as opaque as the language of a lost tribe.
His father, Michel, was an orphan who became one of the most beloved screenwriters in French cinematic history, inventing an entire mode of speech that was playful and flowery.
"There was a time when being a sculptor was a real profession," Keith Allen Johnson, the bust's creator, said the other day, from his studio, in Flowery Branch, Georgia.
Despite the hot-pink, flowery cover and the clickbait title, this book is a cry to reconsider the politics and philosophies behind how people live in a digital world.
On Monday images and videos began to appear on Twitter of the Ritz-Carlton's ballroom B, which appears to have been set up with floor mats and flowery blankets.
Flowery Branch High School freshman Katie Hetzel was prepping for her world literature course on Friday when she needed to learn the definition of "laurel," she told tech magazine, Wired .
NO COMPLIMENT was too flowery at the launch in May of "Antidotes for Corruption", a book by Dino Melaye, a Nigerian senator who has fended off numerous allegations of graft.
Johnson, man known for his ambition, messy blond hair, flowery oratory and cursory command of detail - must solve a series of riddles if he is to succeed where May failed.
And is it okay to use a flowery cliche like "sacrificed at the altar of excess" three decades down the line, but not in the news report the following day?
"There's a lot of nice flowery language in here, but ... you can't actually do the things [Rossello] is talking about doing and still divert resources from public schools," Weingarten said.
For my ride to dinner I took a meandering route along flowery fields going from the Keukenhof to Kaag Lakes at the western edge of the 'Bollenstreek,' the bulb zone.
Written in 1855 or 1856, the piece has flowery and convoluted language and archaic spelling, and the sentiments about the relationship between earthly and heavenly power are difficult to untangle.
Days before the phone call, in early August, Kurdish intelligence officials had led Othman into a small, dingy room with flowery curtains that blocked the view of northeastern Syria outside.
NOMA is revisiting his work in Bror Anders Wikstrom: Bringing Fantasy to Carnival, which features rare watercolor sketches of his imaginative floats and costumes, from colossal dragons to flowery fairies.
After all, the traditional sense of a love potion as a flowery concoction to ensnare the object of your affection might seem like an idea best left in the medieval era.
As Asia's largest economy continues a push to reform its financial system and encourage greater stability ahead of the National People's Congress in March, financial watchdogs have turned to flowery language.
Ted Baker's dresses, suits and shirts, often sporting quirky details such as flowery collars and polka-dotted sleeves, have helped it to stand out from rivals in Britain and, increasingly, overseas.
He comes across like a futuristic cousin to Josh McDermitt's Eugene from The Walking Dead, discussing even the most mundane matters with such elaborate, flowery language that it borders on comedy.
Elizabeth, who rarely makes appearances at her dad's celebrity outings, smiled on the carpet in a black-and-white flowery top and white jeans while Katherine wore a bright orange dress.
His more flowery scenes, particularly some of the female portraits, not only seem unlikely to come back in style, they have active detractors: The Instagram account renoir_sucks_at_painting has some 12,000 followers.
Lady Olenna, heartened by the secret note of flowery solidarity slipped to her by Margaery Tyrell (in a new puritanical look, +10) is ready to flex again all over Cersei Lannister.
The tryout is scheduled for the Atlanta Falcons' training facility in Flowery Branch, Ga. It is unclear how many teams will send representatives or how high-ranking the representatives will be.
Ted Baker's dresses, suits and shirts, which often have quirky details such as flowery collars and polka-dotted sleeves, have helped it to stand out from mid-market rivals in Britain.
Ah, summer—the season you can finally put on shorts and that flowery top you bought during the February sales, drink outside, and sweat in ways you didn't know were possible.
His look has become so striking that it has inspired all sort of flowery comparisons to pop culture figures like Pitbull (by Spin) and "Terminator-meets-Vin-Diesel-in-Portland" (BuzzFeed).
Aside from the flowery writing, it was notable that there was very little medical history described aside from a note that he took a daily aspirin and a low-dose statin.
At his nadir, Oz was called before a Senate subcommittee on consumer protection and asked to explain his use of "flowery" language to champion weight loss fixes that don't actually work.
But sometimes — okay, make that a lot of times — a flowery moment of zen, no matter how nice, isn't enough to rescue skin from a dry, cracked, and straight-up painful state.
While the piano tunes play — even though it's not clear what she's doing — you learn the shapes of her hands, the flowery patterns of her dress, the texture of her pink sweater.
One of the boys put a flowery table setting in front of the girls, while a girl pulled out her phone and sent a Snapchat photo of the meal to a friend.
Kidston took inspiration from her rural English upbringing to create whimsical flowery prints which proved wildly popular in Asia, with queues around the block at her first Tokyo shop opening in 2006.
Maya, 21, later posted several videos to her Instagram Story of the light display inside the museum's iconic spiral structure, and thanked Dior in a post for her mesh and flowery gown.
Cue the sweet, flowery scent of spring, because we're saying goodbye to our puffer jackets and snow boots for good (and by "for good" we, of course, mean storing them until November).
I used to only dress in suits, only brands like Hugo Boss, but that didn't feel right anymore with my changing lifestyle, I wanted to look more flowery, colorful, alternative and special.
Han incorporates flowery language and allusions to 80s movies in the text to assure readers that Lara Jean is still the sweet and girly individual who loves to bake treats and daydream.
Funny, dense, flowery, the story goes on huge tangents, but I love this crazy novel, which somehow manages to depict and sum up the essence of the incredible vast country of India.
With its relaunch, J.Crew is offering tailored herringbone blazers and striped button-downs for the traditionalists, flowery maxi skirts for the modern bohemian, and plush leopard coats for the Kate Moss admirers.
There will be dozens of grip-and-grin photos, a big, formal meal, and enough flowery speeches to raise carbon dioxide levels in the General Assembly hall by another couple of points.
Don't worry, you won't smell like custard — the scent is flowery-sweet right out of the dispenser, but as you apply it fades to a subtle freshness that won't clash with your perfume.
PARIS (Reuters) - Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri unveiled a fairytale-like debut haute couture collection for French fashion house Christian Dior on Monday, presenting flowing flowery dresses, capes and plenty of intricate craftsmanship.
She — Julia Roberts, as Claire, standing in a flowery dress in a garden, looking bored — is C.I.A. He — Clive Owen, as Ray, on whom a suit becomes a brazenly sexy uniform — is MI6.
Trematon in their hands has become a Victorian fantasy of King Arthur's court, where knights would pursue maidens under flowery bowers and lush meadows — an atmosphere familiar from 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite paintings.
She — Julia Roberts, as Claire, standing in a flowery dress in a garden, looking bored — is C.I.A. He — Clive Owen as Ray, on whom a suit becomes a brazenly sexy uniform — is MI6.
By contrast to the well-traveled monarch, the Eastern swallowtail is a homebody, spending its several weeks as a winged adult flitting through a few flowery summer acres — if nothing eats it first.
Featuring a stripped-down palette of Smith-West's guitar strums and Hobdy's vocals, it's a song that goes beyond its flowery melody, exploring the ways that young black men are otherized in society.
In Iran, where language in official meetings is poetic, flowery and indirect, the Iranian members of the Talent Campus, even the hipster ones, could not stop giggling when Mr. Stone used an expletive.
In theory, my route went 40-49-238-241-21593-21596-21598-22-19453-21945, but in practice it included a couple of diversions down side roads next to flowery fields, through Lisse.
In back-and-forth letters over the past seven months, each has used flowery language to describe the other and appeal to his sense of ego, a trait both men carry in spades.
White tapers burn on every table, wall sconces throw off Cognac-colored light from behind lampshades the size of teacups, a collection of thin flowery china dishes supplements the chunky white bistro ware.
At his nadir, in 2014, Oz was called before a Senate subcommittee on consumer protection and asked to explain his use of "flowery" language to champion weight loss fixes that don't actually work.
As carmakers are wont to do, Mercedes-Benz gets pretty deep in the weeds in terms of flowery marketing language and aspirational visions of an idyllic future when describing the thinking behind the design.
Along with Coachella and prom, flowery designs pulled straight from the garden are the one trend we expect to talk about ad nauseam for the next several months — and we're totally fine with that.
Even her 2014 album 1989 was paired with a digital album booklet when you downloaded it in the iTunes store, carrying on Swift's tradition of packing liner notes with riddles and flowery, confessional prose.
But 'Prime Minister Johnson' - known for his ambition, mop of blonde hair, flowery oratory and a cursory command of detail - must solve a series of riddles if he is to succeed where May failed.
But Johnson - known for his ambition, mop of blonde hair, flowery oratory and cursory command of policy detail - takes office at one of the most tumultuous junctures in post-World War Two British history.
Metallic pleats present an approachable (but still statement-making) manifestation of this new, flowery aesthetic, and they're much less involved than the trompe l'oeil embellishments and comically oversized accessories now synonymous with the brand.
After his speech in Coventry, Mr. Johnson was asked why he had dropped a line from his text in which he accused his opponents of "self-obsession and onanism," a flowery term for masturbation.
The pain of black life (and death) often inspires flowery verse, but every poem and essay in Ward's volume remains grounded in a harsh reality that our nation, at large, refuses fully to confront.
A couple days later, I saw her again, wearing a long, white, flowery skirt, and I went up to her and she said she was going to register for classes for the next term.
On Saturday at MADE L.A., rapper Tyler, the Creator's fashion line, Golf Wang, made its runway debut — and it was the flowery, skate-kid-inspired presentation you wish your high school crush had worn.
An 21843th-century diamond brooch, priced at 21865,22007 euros ($563,256) was shown alongside a flowery Bourbon-era pendant in pink gold for €258,218 and an Art Nouveau garnet and gold cuff bracelet for €2,500.
Hayes, also a Bachelor in Paradise alum, wore a white hat, blue shirt and striped shorts as he got handsy while kissing Shay, who opted for sunglasses and a flowery bathing suit cover up.
The new territory includes spectral, flowery folk from a 2004 album by Beady Belle, a Norwegian jazz group, and placid singer/songwriter fare from the finger-picker José González, a Swede of Argentinean heritage.
PARIS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri unveiled a fairytale-like debut haute couture collection for French fashion house Christian Dior on Monday, presenting flowing flowery dresses, capes and plenty of intricate craftsmanship.
Instead of shaking hands and greeting each of his elders, he got straight to the point, forgoing any of the flowery formalities and decorum that have shaped daily life in the Arabian Peninsula for centuries.
Flowery names aside, Dubtribe were among the first to boldly formulate a live house set; lugging synths and drum machines across state lines long before "(Live)" was just another hip parenthetical on a party flyer.
Although Edward's informal dress sense shocked onlookers at the time, Goodwood has since become renowned for its relaxed yet elegant style, which will see festival goers don Panama hats, linen suits or flowery summer dresses.
Edward and Grace are intellectuals — he a schoolteacher, she a retiree assembling a poetry anthology — living comfortably in the picturesque town of Seaford, England, and Nicholson's script walks a fine line between flowery and restrained.
Never do the songs on Lovely Sort of Death sound too flowery, nor do they veer too far into apocalyptic industrialism; instead, they drive home the aggression and morbidity that defined the genre's purest incarnations.
"But make no mistake: We are talking about the rising and falling fortunes of courtiers who, with flattery and whispers and flowery professions of fealty, serve the unpredictable whims of their liege lord," Robinson added.
If the crunch of the artery pleases you, move on to the pork kidney, which is cut into flowery shapes that vaguely resemble miniature porcupines and lands on the tongue with an umami-forward bounce.
Other rules: Make sure to turn the shot of baijiu bottoms up with every encounter; say flattering words in your toast, but nothing too flowery; appear cordial and personable; smile, but avoid inappropriate body contact.
Later, a video appeared on social media showing his lifeless body, with wounds on his face and chest, carried in a flowery red blanket and dumped in the bed of a pickup truck. Maj. Gen.
Klobuchar believes that Democratic primary voters are tired of "flowery language" and want a candidate to "be honest about what you think we can get done," she told POLITICO in an interview earlier this month.
And Desire Obtain Cherish only reinforced the critique of instant gratification and almost criminal abundance with two works made with his signature arrays of pill gel caps, which depict beautiful flowery scenes of chemical-induced happiness.
But the Canada-based company's best quality — no-bullshit, clinical language that skips flowery marketing speak — is also its biggest (and perhaps only) downfall, because shopping its site can be ridiculously confusing to skin-care novices.
In the audience, Hajnalka Bessenyei, 37, loves Varga's designs, and the message they send, and wore a pair of the designer's black trousers with a red flowery waistline as she attended the show with a friend.
But 'Prime Minister Johnson' - a man known for his ambition, mop of blonde hair, flowery oratory and a cursory command of detail - must solve a series of riddles if he is to succeed where May failed.
We love this not only because we love to be comfortable whenever possible, but also because adding sneakers to an unexpected outfit — think sneakers with flowery maxi dress, or a cool suit — automatically ups the ante.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Mr. Brainwash + Renoir + the Kardashians + flowery pastel hats + frilly Victorian dresses = "good art," declares Corey Gamble, boyfriend of Kris Jenner, in the latest episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Mr. Bassett lived most recently in Flowery Branch, Ga. His survivors include his wife, the former Anita Denniston, whom he married in 1949; a son, Noel; a daughter, Wendy Bratton Baker; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Judge, 49, shared a picture of the duo both wearing sunglasses and lounging in their two-pieces on top of a pool float: grandma sported a turquoise and flowery bikini while Ava donned a little peach suit.
PARIS (Reuters) - Louis Vuitton unveiled its latest menswear collection on Thursday, using a picture-postcard scene of Paris as the backdrop for models parading in pastel colors and flowery statement pieces that evoked the joys of spring.
" Method to the madness: "Trump has suggested there's a method to his word choice ... that the simple terms he often opts for can be more effective than the flowery eloquence listeners may be used to from presidents.
DIVIDED KINGDOM At one of the most tumultuous moments in Britain's modern history, it will be now led by a flamboyant figure known for his ambition, untidy blond hair, flowery oratory and cursory command of policy detail.
We don't know much about the game, save for some flowery language about its pretty world and themes that you can hear in the video Ubisoft released this morning from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Perhaps he was nervous to kick things off with a woman as gorgeous, charitable, and talented as Ms. Chopra, and his usual flowery language was morphed into something LinkedIn would automatically send the contacts in your phone.
As such, our girls and young women are vulnerable to the predatory allure of fast money, flowery words, empty promises, and whatever other tactics are employed to wrestle them away from their homes and into harmful environments.
The flavor is really flowery, almost like a cordial, and it even comes in a can that looks like a regular ol' energy drink if you're interested in taking my advice on a more permissive drinking schedule.
But just as Milch's flowery language is less about what it says and more about what it makes you feel, the final chapter of Deadwood is less about what happens and more about the impression it leaves.
Though Malcolm's monologue is flowery and obscure—a deliciously underplayed parody of his character—he appears to be talking about more than the mere fate of these dinosaurs, about a threat that pertains to the entire planet.
I have to go all the way to Washington, D.C.—which, no offense, is a nightmare—and get a dress and all that crap, and make up flowery things to say about how funny someone else is?
"The fragrance can't be too flowery, sweet, or obtrusive," explains a representative from Men's Health POWER, a line of body products designed by the men's interest magazine, at Broadly's request, adding that "freshness" plays a crucial role.
A lot of it falls into two camps: it's either twee indie songwriting where it's about some girl who's perfect and runs through fucking flowery fields, or it's like, 'She done me wrong, she's a bitch-whore.
Instead of making entries by hand, whether with flowery script from ink-dipped pens in Victorian-era New York or ballpoints today, officers will type in their notes, which the app will send to a department database.
He abruptly changed the venue at the last minute from the Atlanta Falcons training center in Flowery Branch, Georgia to a high school in Riverdale, south of Atlanta, where he opted to hold his own workout session.
Maybe companies like Facebook need to cut the flowery "can't we all just get along" shit and take a more active position on doing what they can to reintroduce some order into this divisive moment in U.S. history.
President Ghani is a very different figure, a cerebral former anthropologist and finance minister who makes a point of thanking the Americans in heartfelt and even flowery terms for spending so much blood and treasure on his country.
"I would go and hide behind the mosque in order to pray," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, as she lay under a flowery cover in a ward of the Catholic Hospital Complex of Batouri in eastern Cameroon.
Britain, in the middle of one of the most tumultuous moments in its modern history, will be now led by a flamboyant figure known for his ambition, untidy blond hair, flowery oratory and cursory command of policy detail.
" For the most part, it's a narrative game with some pretty steamy, very cheesy, and highly flowery writing — for example, "he glistens with sweat … the eyes of the young man up on stage shine from the crowd's energy.
The 20173-year-old free agent said in a statement that the venue was changed to allow the media to attend after the NFL had planned a private workout at the Atlanta Falcons training center in Flowery Branch.
"I feel pretty strongly that female playwrights are basically lauded when we write plays that fall into the category of 'feminine': plays that are more flowery in their language or use pretty metaphors or kooky imagery," she said.
In flowery Victorian language, they thanked God for calling women to "a variety of roles within the biblical framework of complementary gender relationships" and praised them for contributing in "biblically appropriate ways" to the work of the church.
As a result, the flavor and aroma are strong, the cup color is amber, and the infusion is coppery in color, compared to first flush where the tea is light and bright, with a flowery taste and fruity aroma.
The company, which opened its first store in Glasgow in 1988, sells dresses, suits and shirts, often sporting quirky details such as flowery collars and polka-dotted sleeves, helping it stand out from rivals in Britain and, increasingly, overseas.
An unequivocal statement issued in a letter to the Farmers' Alliance of California in 1891 by Alex Sullivan, General Secretary of the Boot and Shoemakers' White Labor League, strips bare the hostility beneath the flowery words of the card.
Donning fishnet arm stockings and a corset binding out of which peaks a flowery medieval blouse, Iris is 21 and grew up in Gretna, just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans on what is known as the Westbank.
" In the most verbose and flowery challenge yet, Joseph Paddon called out the "two impregnable fortresses" of James and Elizabeth Stokes to take on him and his student whom he "trained from her Cradle to the Toils of War.
" APRIL 20 As school districts around the country ban these focus tools for being too, yes, distracting, a New York schoolteacher named Cristina Bolusi Zawacki takes to Working Mother to denounce fidget-spinners: "Let's stop with the flowery euphemisms.
But with these looks, somewhere between the two extremes, we got a taste of powerful grace that demands attention without subtlety, swapped puffy shoulders for shapely, sharp, padded ones, and flowery embroidery for sleek, reflective sequins that almost look welded together.
He was disposing of his opponent without breaking a sweat — which was ironic, considering he looked as though he'd just stumbled in from the beach in flip-flops, cargo shorts and a flowery blue Hawaiian shirt unbuttoned halfway down his chest.
Mr. Martin was never particularly trendy, and when the Beatles adopted the flowery fashions of psychedelia in 19943 and 1967 he continued to attend sessions in a white shirt and tie, his hair combed back in a schoolmasterly pre-Beatles style.
Where things went wrong Singapore's view of China as a key regional ally was long reciprocated, said Han, with Chinese officials referring to the city state as a "special friend" and flowery tributes paid to Lee Kuan Yew after his death.
Tip "It doesn't have to be in flowery language on fancy stationery," says Barbara Bouton, who worked with bereaved families for more than two decades at a hospice in Louisville, Ky., before joining the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
By the time Taborn entered this daunting arena, it was all but empty, aside from a handful of obscure avant-garde pianists and Jarrett himself: "The Köln Concert" had become a somewhat quaint symbol of '43s sprawl and flowery romanticism.
"If the US leaves, people across the region will think that despite his flowery rhetorical devices, Trump does not really have a strategy for the Middle East and at the end of the day will fold and go home," Gerges said.
In two widely publicized incidents, a female minister wore a flowery dress to testify in Parliament and faced catcalls to take it off; and a legislator started clucking like a chicken when one of his female colleagues began to speak.
And to link the North Korea summit and his flowery talk about how great Kim jong-un is, calling the American press the greatest enemy in our country, I think that should disturb everyone on the right, on the left, and the center.
And finally, Gwyneth Paltrow's electric blue suede shoes at Stella McCartney's fashion show may not seem too strange (they even match the flowery blue accents on her dress), but they're so cool and edgy for the Goop guru, everyone needs to take note.
Celebs like Peyton List and Meg Donelly opted for shorter hemlines and plenty of skin while the ladies of Fuller House showed up in full floral force, with Lori Laughlin, Jodie Sweetin, and Candace Cameron Bure all opting for embellished flowery looks.
You know, the Medicis in the 15th-century Italy would hire these people to paint them and write about them—the diction was all flowery—and I wanted to do that in the current age and apply it to suburbia and total mediocrity.
That's not to say you just have to get over a boss who clips his nails or eminent-domains your work, but, buddy, the world does not need your four paragraphs of flowery prose about the exact ways in which he sucks.
Logan Simmons — who works at a Chick-Fil-A in Flowery Branch, Georgia — was working his evening shift on Tuesday when he saw a 6-year-old boy choking in the backseat of a car with a seatbelt around his neck, WSBTV reports.
There is, as well, the flowery frock worn in the 1930s by the actress Marie Dressler, and a recent video clip of the lavender-coiffed, unabashedly round Ashley Nell Tipton, the first "Project Runway" designer to win with a plus-size collection.
Daughter Sascha wore a flowing, flowery short-sleeve top and black shorts with black sandals, while Jessica made the bold (and fashionable) choice to rock horizontal and vertical stripes together, with a pink off-the-shoulder top and an ankle-length multicolored skirt.
"While the majority engages in flowery rhetoric about light-touch regulation and so on, the endgame appears to be no-touch regulation and a wholescale destruction of the FCC's public interest authority in the 2202st century," Clyburn said in her dissent. Sen.
"While the majority engages in flowery rhetoric about light-touch regulation and so on, the endgame appears to be no-touch regulation and a wholescale destruction of the FCC's public interest authority in the 21st century," Clyburn said in her dissent. Sen.
A group of elderly local women—anti-THAAD badges tacked to their flowery pink pyjamas—recently pulled an enormous portrait of Ms Park from the wall of their community centre, which stands not far from where some of her ancestors are buried.
Without those institutions and practices in place, and the trust that undergirds them, national leaders have immense incentive to make big, flowery promises but do the minimal amount required of them — "organized hypocrisy," a too-frequent state of affairs in international relations.
Despite the angst surrounding the situation, Atlanta head coach Dan Quinn told the media gathered at Flowery Branch, Ga., that he sensed Jones would report to camp when he joined Matt Ryan and other offensive teammates for workouts in California last week.
As much as flowery-tongued hypocrites like Tom Wilson would have you believe otherwise, corporations have one job: to produce profits, and when a corporate executive tries to tell you something else, run — don't walk — away from the company he or she leads.
In November, instead of attending a workout that was set up by the NFL at the Atlanta Falcons practice facility in Flowery Branch, Georgia, Kaepernick opted to hold his own workout session at a high school in Riverdale, which is south of Atlanta.
Many writers also feel the influence and overflow of Pakistan's lingua-franca Urdu, a flowery and poetic language, has swelled the popularity of such colorful turns of phrase in English, which is Pakistan's second official language widely spoken by the political and business elites.
Upstairs in a hotel room, a makeup artist was layering foundation on Ms. Shay, the room a mess of glittery blue eye shadow, shimmery lotion, fake eyelashes and a pair of Oscar de la Renta flowery high-heeled shoes carefully positioned on a shelf.
Many writers also feel the influence and overflow of Pakistan's lingua-franca Urdu, a flowery and poetic language, has swelled the popularity of such colourful turns of phrase in English, which is Pakistan's second official language widely spoken by the political and business elites.
What's more, Kratsios's flowery words need to be tempered against some of the other dark realities of AI. With fiascos such as the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal now setting an important precedent, it's clear that big corporations don't always have users' and customers' best interests in mind.
So much of Westworld feels like it's operating in circles: William doggedly pursuing the same unworthy fantasy goal, Dolores and Ford each giving their flowery speeches that don't amount to much, Bernard being baffled, people gunning down people who are resurrected to get gunned down again.
He served in the Navy in the Pacific theater in World War II. At The Fort Worth Press, a penurious operation, he quickly rose to sports editor and held his young reporters to strict standards, castigating them regularly for tardiness, flowery writing, overseriousness and factual mistakes.
Xi sent a flowery letter to Trump transmitted by the Chinese leader's top trade negotiator, Vice Premier Liu He. Liu, who spent two days in talks with Lighthizer and U.S. negotiators, said Xi is committed to buying 5 million tons of U.S. soybeans, a pledge Trump welcomed.
The descriptors used on the message boards I'd frequent ranged from "flowery" to "gay", so i guess in that sense, some people may have perceived this un-truest of death metals as "feminine," but in hindsight, that said a lot more about them than the music.
Or as Microsoft's Nadella put it today at the Marcel event in more — err — flowery words, "Our job is to find rose petals in a field of shit," he said, describing how he talks about motivating teams at Microsoft to think in a more forward way.
Five days after the "Access Hollywood" tape, for example, I asked an older woman in a flowery red dress what she thought of her candidate's theory of sexual license — as a lone protester was playing the tape on a loop outside a rally venue in Lakeland, Fla.
While Mr. Obama appealed to ordinary Muslims, with citations from the Quran and flowery tributes to Islamic culture, Mr. Pompeo spoke squarely to a smaller group: the kings, princes and military rulers who have ensured American influence for decades and who were crucial to countering Iran.
The couple — who declined to give their last names for this story and live in the predominantly white town of Flowery Branch, where Asians, including Indians, account for just 1.6% of the residents — said that they didn't really know much about India until they started doing these videos.
Not much distinguishes Time for Us from the band's previous full-length record, the fizzy, glittering LOL (2016): both albums share a flowery pastoral aesthetic that's common in Korean pop, gliding with expertly manicured lightness as liquid keyboards and silky strings contain the songs in gilded, lace-plaited boxes.
Ms. Figueroa, in a white tulle dress with floral lace appliqué and a sweeping train by BHLDN, walked with her father down an aisle scattered with pink and white rose petals to a flowery altar where Mr. Baker, in a velvet burgundy jacket and matching bow tie, awaited.
Image 2 of 2 MEXICO CITY – A raised fist made of helmets, pick axes and broken rubble rolled ahead of hundreds of walking skeletons, costumed dancers and flowery floats Saturday in Mexico City&aposs Day of the Dead parade, which this year honored the 228 capital residents killed by a Sept.
The entire album is catchy and engaging as hell (honestly, there's no need to get flowery—it's just really fun to listen to) and the title track in particular is what my Noisey colleagues would almost certainly refer to as a "slapper" if any of them appreciated disgustingly groovy death/grind.
Boss Bottled by Hugo Boss (100 ml) — save £23 This is a bit of a mouthful but this scent apparently has an initial fresh and fruity impression, followed by warm and flowery middle notes dominated by geraniums and a dab of clove, with masculine base notes of sandalwood, cedar wood, and vetiver. Phew.
Another firm long car journey favourite for most millennials is Lighthouse Family's "Ocean Drive"—probably one of the last albums bought, on cassette, by my mother, after hearing it in the queue of Mark One as she was buying a pack of white t-shirts and a flowery denim jacket for her holiday wardrobe.
Look for Calida Rawles's gorgeous paintings of Black swimmers at Various Small Fires (one of these paintings is the cover of Ta-Nehisi Coates's newest novel), Jaime Muñoz's modern take on pre-Colombian art at the Pit, and Gaignard's flowery demands for gallerists — or anyone — to sell to Black collectors at Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles.
The result is a new subset of professional instructors: the yogalebrity who makes much of her living on the road, not unlike a small-time rock star, appearing at retreats and conferences, posting inspirational quotes fashioned in flowery Pinterest-friendly fonts, and pictures of inner peace found through arm balances or legs over one's head.
Issues and causes can bring resonance to Super Bowl commercials, but there's a fine line between touching an emotional nerve and coming across as exploitative, since it's generally understood that the point of the flowery words and images are, ultimately, in the service of making the audience feel good about the sponsor and its product.
They were easy to like, as were the flowery shrunken twin sets and matching pencil skirts at Altuzarra, sweaters buttoned onto the shoulders of Brigitte Bardot crop tops so arms could be bared at will (though the collection as a whole played in a minor key; the designer, Joseph Altuzarra, could stand to be a little more ambitious).
A total of 25 teams were scheduled to watch Kaepernick, but a last-minute venue change — from the Atlanta Falcons' facility in Flowery Branch to Charles R. Drew High School in Riverdale — meant that only seven attended, according to ESPN: the Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets, Washington Redskins, San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions and Tennessee Titans.
My mother wore white for her second wedding: a fitted, handmade-lace CdG evening jacket with an asymmetric train (a more elaborate, romantic version of her black daywear), a silk skirt with a layered handkerchief hem, and a veiled hat that she now denounces as "too flowery," copied after one she'd bought years before in Paris.
As we stroll around the streets, water clopping around our heels, it quickly becomes clear that that declaration at the heart of "Big" is entirely accurate; this rain-soaked scene belongs to Fontaines D.C. That debut album Dogrel, due 12 April on Partisan Records, is at turns ferocious and flowery, loud and lyrical, straightened out by a decidedly poetic backbone.
Charming though Patsy can be, in the wise and winning performance of Verna Pierce, with an unruly halo of gray hair and a flowery multipurpose apron (the well-observed costumes are by Alison Hublard Hershman), she also has a more contentious side, revealed in her scorn for Lucy's live-in boyfriend, Javier, and for the leader of the local bocce club, Sal.
With a keen eye for colorful detail, Dray narrates the elaborate rituals of the English hunting tradition, and samples its rich vocabulary, from "nouns of assembly" ("a sloth of bears" or "a business of ferrets") to nomenclature (a six-year-old stag that evades a king or queen is dubbed "a hart royal proclaimed") to flowery euphemisms for different kinds of scat.
Mantecado is a fixture on the menu now, along with Violeta, inspired by the flowery perfume "splashed all over every Cuban baby," she said; and Abuela Maria, a swirl of broken Maria cookies, knobs of cream cheese and ruby streaks of guava and guava marmalade — an adaptation of a 4-o'clock snack, best downed with a cup of Café Bustelo.
But here are some tips for reducing its impact: Buy products that are targeted at men, or that are gender-neutral: This may be easier in theory than in practice depending on how much you love flowery-smelling deodorants or pleasantly curved pink razors — and depending on how much math you actually have the time and energy to do when you're stopping at CVS after work.
Courtney Love has also been a muse for the band itself: Since the discovery of their admiration for her between the release of their 2014 debut, The Human Cry, and now, Clark and drummer Keith McGraw have shifted the band's aesthetics from dark, witchy and morose to pink, flowery, and femme without losing an ounce of the dark discomfort for which they have become widely known.
Yes, the suffering of Syrians and Yemenis might seem like a distant and abstract problem in the midst of our addiction to political entertainment and flowery speeches, but unless we wake up and demand real action to stop the suffering over there, we might find ourselves caught off-guard over here, and you and I might end up paying the price of this willful ignorance for generations to come.
Paris With a flowery scent in the air and a live orchestra playing Philip Glass's soundtrack from the 2002 movie "The Hours," Clare Waight Keller transported guests at the Givenchy show to the famous gardens of Sissinghurst, the former home of the writer Vita Sackville-West, and Virginia Woolf's country retreat Monk's House; Waight Keller had been inspired by the love letters that the two women wrote to each other.
In H.G. Wells's "Men Like Gods" (1923) plants "had been trained and bred to make new and unprecedented secretions, waxes, gums, essential oils and the like, of the most desirable quality", which could serve as a slightly flowery mission statement for half the companies in this TQ. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Herland" (1915), a race of parthenogenetic women live in a cornucopian Eden they have fashioned through science to meet their every need.
Sales are on, and I end up buying a brooch shaped like the planet Saturn at 50% off ($15.50); a much-needed pair of brown suede boots, also 50% off ($303) because I go through shoes very quickly and had no decent daywear shoes left; an oversized, white wooly cardigan at 70% off ($82); a pretty, flowery silk scarf at 50% off ($92); a white blouse at 70% off ($64), and a little black dress at 70% off ($59).
I'd enjoyed a sparkling wine bottled, with spirited acidity, by Sidónio de Sousa in the Bairrada region of Portugal, by the Atlantic Ocean; a quietly flowery vermouth from the Basque Country, poured from a tap; Los Bermejos's illuminatingly bright dry malvasia, grown in the volcanic soil of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands; a glass of red from 4 Monos, made in the mountains west of Madrid and so approachably low in tannin that Cervo's serves it chilled, like a Beaujolais.
The girl dreads being away from the mother, but looks forward to visiting the father and everything that is this place, the house, the island, her room with its flowery wallpaper, Ingrid's cooking, the moors and the stony beach and the ocean stretching green and gray between her father's island and the Soviet Union (if you lose your way and end up there, they'll never let you out), and the fact that everything is exactly as it has always been and always will be.
Because a church that tells people that no protections for their possibly-sacramental first marriage are necessary so long as they are tactful in their request, real in their regrets, and respectable in their new life, a church that does not provide any real safeguard for what it claims is an absolute and cosmic reality, an icon of Christ and his bride … can such a church be said to really believe any longer in the indissolubility of marriage, no matter what kind of flowery language its high officials use?

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