bedeck

• “Just as she had refused to "bedeck" herself for social occasions as a girl, so her choreography insisted that the audience see plainly what is there instead of buying into some comfy illusion.”

  The Guardian: Step-by-step guide to dance: Yvonne Rainer

• “Invariably a few spotlight-hungry imposters will bedeck themselves with awards they did not earn, position themselves to be”

  Heroes or Villains?

• “Funny, but too bad they didn't bedeck it with ornaments and tinsel before launch.”

  Boing Boing

• “Stretch your Samurai-headband-attired block of tofu and release your finger to ping him towards delicious blobs of chi, while avoiding his natural enemies, the iron spikes and spinning blades that bedeck increasing proportions of each level.”

  The Guardian: This week's new games

• “Together with the vaguely Brooks-like saddle, skinwall tires, and "hammered" or hammered look fenders, the bike will do doubt infuriate Randonnerds, retrogrouches, and the sorts of people who bedeck their bicycles with an airport carousel's worth of canvas luggage, but will simply look really nice to people who don't know what any of that means or who don't really care.”

  Archive 2010-08-01

• “There are those who ignore the warnings, the patterns of stones laid out in vast shimmering mosaics, the singing wind-wires, the lines of suspended sun mirrors, designed to dazzle, and the flags that bedeck the ridges, hoisted on masts that bend and snap in the wind as if to berate and admonish those who venture too close.”

  Watchman: Babel Series Part One | SciFi UK Review

• “More chances to reach out, to sing, to love, to bedeck ourselves in ritual colors and become splendid as the year turns around.”

  Tweets for Today

• “I'm wondering just how far this will have to go before the non-parliamentary subjects of this country take to the streets and bedeck the lamp posts of Whitehall and near environs with the rotting corpses of "Honourable Members" of both the Lower and Upper Houses.”

  Open Thread

• “In other lands, people bedeck themselves with scars, lip plugs or bright feathers.”

  Newsweek: The Biology Of Beauty

• “A little bit of extra matter exerted a gravitational pull on other matter until slight excesses grew huge, giving birth to the galaxies and clusters of galaxies, surrounded by voids, that bedeck the sky.”

  Newsweek: How It All Started

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