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Friedman described, in flourishy elegance, books and art like The Road, Gershwin, “Nighthawks,” and a French film called Playtime which I intend to see immediately.
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As I watched, words in flourishy type flashed across the screen.
Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour Morgan Matson 2010
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As I watched, words in flourishy type flashed across the screen.
Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour Morgan Matson 2010
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I've also seen -- hell, been -- the Michael kind of reviewer, whose flourishy bon mots and cleversticks remarks serve himself more than his subject.
Taking a Bite out of the Apple Roger Sutton 2006
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As the instrumental break goes all sweeping and flourishy, the crowd moves up onto the platform, singing the “nowhere town” harmony.
Nowhere Town: Act ONE Scene VI Hal Duncan 2006
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As the instrumental break goes all sweeping and flourishy, the crowd moves up onto the platform, singing the “nowhere town” harmony.
Archive 2006-04-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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I tend to publish in strictly ink-and-paper type journals too so I know the happy when a pieces came out all flourishy and artful and such.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007
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She finds all sorts of peculiar things: a sulky captured pirate, a giant popcorn-popping machine, an elephant that falls downhill once a day—truly "every kind of flawless flourishy footlooseness."
Archive 2006-11-01 fusenumber8 2006
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She finds all sorts of peculiar things: a sulky captured pirate, a giant popcorn-popping machine, an elephant that falls downhill once a day—truly "every kind of flawless flourishy footlooseness."
Didja Miss Me? fusenumber8 2006
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He lifted his hand and made flourishy motions of writing in the air.
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