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The tour-de-force diva show turned out to be Cherubini's "Medea" 1797, with soprano Alexandra Deshorties in a rip-snorting, ferocious performance as the revenge-driven sorceress.
Zambello's First Season: Invigorated, Imbalanced Heidi Waleson 2011
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It was a rip-snorting, sky-splitting sound as of a cosmic fabric being torn asunder between the hands of some powerful god.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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Dr. Solomon accompanies Robert Langdon, the rare symbologist who warrants the word dashing as both adjective and verb, through much of this novel, his third rip-snorting adventure. ...
Humor 2009
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You know -- one of those rip-snorting nights you used to make.
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They're a lot of little cottontail rabbits making believe they're big rip-snorting timber wolves.
Chapter XVI 2010
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Dr. Solomon accompanies Robert Langdon, the rare symbologist who warrants the word dashing as both adjective and verb, through much of this novel, his third rip-snorting adventure. ...
New Releases 2009
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Dr. Solomon accompanies Robert Langdon, the rare symbologist who warrants the word dashing as both adjective and verb, through much of this novel, his third rip-snorting adventure. ...
Pop Culture 2009
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Dr. Solomon accompanies Robert Langdon, the rare symbologist who warrants the word dashing as both adjective and verb, through much of this novel, his third rip-snorting adventure. ...
Fiction 2009
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You know -- one of those rip-snorting nights you used to make.
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And he seems to be doing a rip-snorting good job of doing so.
alexz commented on the word rip-snorting
this term has been around for decades. ripsnorting
October 14, 2016