semi-fabulous

• “He discovered that the suggestions were up to date, but nothing a quick glance at the newspaper, a Google search or a phone call to an assistant, an agent, a friend, heck, even your semi-fabulous mother wouldn't tell you: Pegu for drinks; 11 Madison Park for dinner; Le Bernardin for fish; the Jane Ballroom for late-night shenanigans.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Cellphone With a $7,900 Price Tag

• “Chances are I am flying 35, 000 feet somewhere over the rainbow on my way to some semi-fabulous JetBlue Airways destination!”

  The Huffington Post: Steven Slater, JetBlue Flight Attendant, Curses Passengers, Jumps Down Emergency Chute (UPDATES, VIDEO, PHOTOS, POLL)

• “* A large auditorium of people who could otherwise afford them sit in donated gowns and tuxes looking semi-fabulous.”

  Archive 2005-03-01

• “The bewildering romance, light tarnished with darkness, the semi-fabulous legend, truth celestial mixed with human falsehoods, these fade even of themselves as life advances.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845

• “_Ultima Thule_ uniformly the Isle of Skye or of St Kilda -- so it is pretty evident that features belonging to Sumatra, and probably to other oriental islands, blended (through mutual misconceptions of the parties, questioned and questioning) into one semi-fabulous object not entirely realized in any locality whatever.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843

• “Cylon, circa 596 B.C. _Ostanes_, or Hostanes, a famous semi-fabulous magician of Persia.”

  The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura

• “Everything had shrunk fifty -- often one hundred -- per cent., for the basis of Benham's semi-fabulous development had been borrowed money.”

  Unleavened Bread

• “Landgrave Hermann of Thuringia, whose court saw the fabulous or semi-fabulous "War of the Wartburg," with Wolfram von Eschenbach and”

  The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

• “The sun itself is no longer a semi-fabulous, fire-girt globe, but the vast scene of the play of forces as yet imperfectly known to us, offering a boundless field for the most arduous and inspiring researches.”

  A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition

• “Often as the words are on our tongue, they have got a fabulous or semi-fabulous character for most of us, and pass on like a kind of transient similitude, like a sound signifying little.”

  Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

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