headily

• “I simply had no idea that such a headily-scented plant could suddenly produce fruit like this in the autumn.”

  Hedge Fund

• “We don't find out the truth about Eric's Iraq experience until the final three chapters, which are headily Conradian in their willingness to confront the very heart of darkness.”

  Anis Shivani: The Tangled Roots of the Terror Psychology: J. Robert Lennon's Novel "Castle"

• “With its headily urban recasting of the myth, it was given even more splendour by leading you out onto Waterloo Bridge: one of my favourite views in London, especially very early in the morning.”

  Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me

• “The story is played out in a succession of vividly coloured, headily intense visuals which are often far more revealing than the dialogue.”

  Duel in the Sun (1946)

• “Craigengelt had his own purposes in fooling him up to the top of his bent; and having some low humour, much impudence, and the power of singing a good song, understanding besides thoroughly the disposition of his regained associate, he headily succeeded in involving him bumper-deep in the festivity of the meeting.”

  The Bride of Lammermoor

• “The Separation is an excellent, headily atmospheric novel that forces the reader to think about what they are reading carefully.”

  Archive 2008-03-01

• “She is older than the deck chair on which she sits, I thought headily, and she is famine, fire, destruction, and plague, she is the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, the on lie true begetter.”

  Burton’s First Encounter with Taylor

• “A good quality Ylang Ylang essential oil should smell creamy, fruity, tenacious, and headily floral but in a very pleasant way.”

  Flower of Flowers

• “Last time I tried it a long time ago; as I said, samples stay in the To Review Box for years, awaiting their destiny, I found La Base, an homage to Switzerland, the Alps, and mountain flowers, to be simultaneously a little too aquatic-fresh and too overwhelmingly, headily floral.”

  Archive 2007-04-01

• “As an Eau de Toilette, Diorissimo is a soliflore lily of the valley, in fact – the only one that I smelled so far that captures the scent of the crisp little white bells without smelling headily synthetic and develop into a flat, shallow nuisance on the skin.”

  Archive 2006-05-01

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