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- adverb In a
goopy way.
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Examples
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Thickly and goopily rendered with sometimes violent slashes, but openly and lucidly composed, Dorland has created a procession of images that record moments from his (or someone's) adolescence, moments of crashing banality and/or teen angst whose very vacuity allows Dorland's technical virtuosity to proceed unimpeded by the need to tell much of any story.
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“I am certain the person who purchases them will have sweet dreams,” Terence said, smiling goopily at Tossie, “‘a dream of perfect bliss, too beautiful to last ....’”
To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997
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It has the consistency of water but a tangy, milky, assertive flavor, best poured over rice and eaten, goopily, with the hands.
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Thickly and goopily rendered with sometimes violent slashes, but openly and lucidly composed, Dorland has created a procession of images that record moments from his (or someone's) adolescence, moments of crashing banality and/or teen angst whose very vacuity allows Dorland's technical virtuosity to proceed unimpeded by the need to tell much of any story.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Peter Frank 2010
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