multifarious

• “Tristram Shandy, for instance, is in multifarious ways a marvellous book, but it is written in a tone of such constant high-pitched zaniness, such deliberate "liveliness", that one finds oneself screaming at it to calm down a bit.”

  Comedy in Literature

• “Yesterday's term was multifarious, which is defined as:”

  Define That Term #10

• “Back in the USA, besides the Super Bowl, one weekend highlight is the multifarious celebration marking what would have been Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday.”

  USA Today: Looking ahead: Mubarak and Reagan

• “His connections with different musical worlds are multifarious: he's assisted Philip Glass, written a film score for Stephen Daldry and worked with Björk, as well as producing his own gleefully eclectic music which already covers a huge range of genres.”

  The Guardian: This week's new live music

• “Perhaps it would be more accurate to call Gravity's Rainbow a "Menippean Satire," as a number of Pynchon scholars have pointed out, but one of the great accomplishments of the novel has been its ability to incorporate other and multifarious literary (and non-literary) forms without sacrificing its own integrity as an identifiable (if omni-directed) literary form in its own right.”

  Postmodernism

• “The cast just needs to come to life and start distinguishing themselves otherwise they will fade into the background of a weighty, multifarious story that will to easily overpower such bland performances.”

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• “Developed first as a multifarious 3D model, this clean and well-suited stairway design brings a heavy touch of modernity to a simple, elegant interior space.”

  Beautiful Hanging Stair

• “It seems both more fragile and more important an institution than it ever has been, more multifarious, more invented as it goes along, more necessary.”

  An Interview with Sue Miller

• “All of which has led to a sound which can't be pinned down: in contrast to the way the rabid inventiveness of jungle got smoothed out into the orthodoxy of drum'n'bass in the mid-90s, grime remains multifarious and often deeply weird.”

  The Guardian: Grime's still standing, better than anything

• “She is a working mother with multifarious business interests that include: Golf course design, wine, clothing, perfume and a golf academy for young players.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Keeping Her Eye on the Ball

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