fustiness

• “First comes the hippy California dad – long hair, screechy kids, lots of sunny white light; then the awkward writer, all tweedy fustiness with a sepia tint; and finally the designer, dressed in requisite black geek glasses and cool blue tones.”

  The Guardian: The Hard Sell: American Airlines

• “The play's targets – establishment fustiness, snobbery, racism and duplicity – aren't surprising, but the serpentine subtlety of the plotting is.”

  The Guardian: The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review

• “The Standard-BearersHere are some of the prophets and pathfinders who helped clear away the last of the old formality, fustiness and frou-frou.”

  Newsweek: Design Literacy: A Primer

• “Suffice to say the next time Sarah was co-hosting with John she humorously chided her colleague for such fustiness, to which John mumbled a splendidly unconvincing apology.”

  Archive 2006-04-01

• “In fact, one of the refreshing things about this CD is the complete lack of classical or "early music" fustiness.”

  Songs From The Labyrinth

• “Before you go the fusuma are slidden back, and what was your room becomes part of a great, open, matted space — an arrangement which effectually prevents fustiness.”

  Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

• “There's a fustiness about Mr. Beatty's uncharacteristically lackluster stage set, which he locates sort of in the 17th century.”

  A Million Tartuffes Later, Is Moli��re Still Breathing?

• “The very word "desk" has taken on an almost Dickensian fustiness.”

  WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

• “Shaking his head to clear the fustiness he noticed a fat arm around his waist.”

  Dangerous Lady

• “He was in bed when Morgan left the hotel on his early round, and there was a look about him still of fustiness and the cobwebs of sleep.”

  Trail's End

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