highly-coloured

As in fact the bishops 'speeches in the Lords made quite clear, (despite the highly-coloured versions of the debate that were manufactured by some) very few Christians were contesting the civil liberties of gay and lesbian people in general; nor should they have been.

Archbishop's Presidential Address 2010

As in fact the bishops 'speeches in the Lords made quite clear, (despite the highly-coloured versions of the debate that were manufactured by some) very few Christians were contesting the civil liberties of gay and lesbian people in general; nor should they have been.

The Archbishop's Presidential Address 2010

Ronald Knox's description of discussion at a student society in the nineteen thirties has a certain familiarity after the last few days; but given that public comment and criticism has been cast in such highly-coloured terms, I've thought it right to say a few words to Synod this afternoon about what was and wasn't said last week and what the questions were which I had hoped might benefit from some airing.

Presidential Address to the opening of General Synod 2008

A short walk from my house there is a supermarket which sells objects under the name of apples, which George Orwell famously dismissed as ‘lumps of highly-coloured cotton wool from America or Australia’; and of the people who buy them he said, ‘they will devour these things, apparently with pleasure, and let the English apples rot under the trees.’

Genesis 3 superversive 2006

Ronald Knox's description of discussion at a student society in the nineteen thirties has a certain familiarity after the last few days; but given that public comment and criticism has been cast in such highly-coloured terms, I've thought it right to say a few words to Synod this afternoon about what was and wasn't said last week and what the questions were which I had hoped might benefit from some airing.

Presidential Address to the Opening of General Synod 2008

If ever he had beaten Dumetrius, it was over that highly-coloured affair.

Swan Song 2004

On others highly-coloured gods, and devils equally hideous, were grouped miscellaneously.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Here, on the second of these days of love and sunshine, she saw, with absolute clearness, that neither this nor any other day had anything extraordinary to give her; and sitting silent at dinner, under an arbour of highly-coloured creeper, she was overcome by such a laming discouragement, that she laid her knife and fork down, and could eat no more.

Maurice Guest 2003

Not far from him stood a very tall cornet, with thick moustaches and a highly-coloured complexion — a noble fond of strong mead and hearty revelry.

Taras Bulba 2003

And one realised that old age had substituted a pale and tenuous phantom for the highly-coloured and alert Legrandin.

Time Regained 2003