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  • The people who inhabit such cities as Juchitan de Zaragosa and Santo Domingo Tehuantepec are boistrous and entertaining.

    Magical Drive 2010

  • Notably, during and directly stage-right of the boistrous Klingon Summit panel (full costumes, full Klingon 'tude, fully-delighted audience), I ask Creation co-founder Adam Malin (who looks too young to have begun the company in 1971) how this super-cool event came to be.

    Gregory Weinkauf: 'Star Trek' Celebrates Its 45th Anniversary in Las Vegas Gregory Weinkauf 2011

  • I mean, there may be boistrous ones out there but there are also some very sweet-natured ones.

    sex 2009

  • At the risk of sounding elitist, these boistrous town hall intruders have no brains.

    Specter faces angry crowd at town hall meeting 2009

  • The initial letter was standard letter-to-the-editor stuff, but the latter ones were more boistrous – rambling, off the cuff, amused, full of amused disdain.

    Me & Missus – Missus Light – The Bleat. 2010

  • Nevertheless, surviving film footage leaves no doubt that she was a staggering, opulent apparition in action and the perfect visual complement to Hawkwind's boistrous, chugging brand of sci-fi rock some of which featured the collaboration of novelist Michael Moorcock.

    Saluting Miss Stacia 2009

  • When she and I are together, I feel myself in the company of a kind of friend I've always needed but never had -- someone who makes me laugh, feel at ease, and become more of an extrovert not to mention drink and smoke too much... but hey, it's the holidays; and when she and Donna are together, they become an amazing third entity -- funnier, more boistrous and uninhibited, always in perfect sync.

    Archive 2008-12-28 2009

  • And they're all loud, boistrous, tall, big and the life of any party.

    badger Diary Entry badger 2009

  • Furthermore, when Eisenhower was president the Democrats were extremely boistrous over the need to tackle Civil Rights and address other domestic issues.

    Poll: Majority To Left Of Democrats On Iraq 2009

  • Nevertheless, surviving film footage leaves no doubt that she was a staggering, opulent apparition in action and the perfect visual complement to Hawkwind's boistrous, chugging brand of sci-fi rock some of which featured the collaboration of novelist Michael Moorcock.

    Archive 2009-01-18 2009

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