full-flowering

Canadians aren't used to ideological nurseries like this, in which the awkward, dateless poorly-socialised youth is nurtured to full-flowering wingnut, well-versed in the strategies and tactics of "political management"...which of course, is just PR-speak for practised lying.

Caption contest! CC 2008

He did not recognize the emotion as the full-flowering joy that comes to a member of a mob.

The Weapon Shops of Isher Van Vogt, A. E. 1951

Page 7 the full-flowering clover-field, or to the plantation nursery to see the old mammies feed the babies with "clabber," with bread well crumbed in it, or cush, made of bread soaked in gravy and softly mashed.

A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66, 1905

His absence, too, might have done much; – absence which smothers into decay a rootless fancy, but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

Involuntarily her glance wandered to a framed photograph which stood on the mantelshelf, showing the likeness of a white-haired man standing among a group of full-flowering roses, with a smile upon his wrinkled face, -- a smile expressing the quaintest and most complete satisfaction, as though he sought to illustrate the fact that though he was old, he was still a part of the youthful blossoming of the earth in summer-time.

The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889

Numbers of fruit trees were bursting into blossom, -- the apple, the cherry, the pink almond and the orange blossom all waved together and whispered sweetness to one another in the pure air, and the full-flowering mimosa perfumed every breath of wind.

Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889

My salutation to the shape that through the wede doth show And to the roses in the cheeks 'full-flowering meads that blow!

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879

His absence, too, might have done much: -- absence which smothers into decay a rootless fancy, but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

John Halifax, Gentleman Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

Kevin Bacon nails Jack Brennan, and Sam Rockwell's James Reston Jr. does a wonderful job of conveying the consuming and often disfiguring hatred on the part of so many towards Nixon, a hatred that long preceded Watergate but the full-flowering of which Watergate allowed.

Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog 2009

Mos Eisley cantina of America-hating nut cases, take to the streets it's a full-flowering of democracy in action.

The Corner 2009