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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.

    Last Night « PubliCola 2010

  • As I watched, words in flourishy type flashed across the screen.

    Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour Morgan Matson 2010

  • As I watched, words in flourishy type flashed across the screen.

    Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour Morgan Matson 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • He lifted his hand and made flourishy motions of writing in the air.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

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