How To Use Boisterous In A Sentence

It's here that he rails for the umpteenth time against lesser critics who have dared to suggest that his boisterous, agonistic account of writerly influence might be weighted in favour of a certain masculinist tradition. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
Not so much a summer scorcher, then, but a hot ticket that remains boisterously good fun for the undemanding multiplex-goers.
Lezinka, a boisterous dance in a raging tempo, drums ablaze, that is popular in the The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
He pauses, shakes his head, then boisterously proclaims, ‘Aw, gee whiz, I guess that means the hot dogs are on me, gang!’
Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon

He was embarrassed and even ashamed of his indiscretion, but then he realized that there was no way he could have been heard above the roar of the boisterous crowd.
On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Been there, done that
In Beethoven's Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 44, the trio contrasted the music's delicacy with sheer boisterousness. Emerson opens string quartet festival with well-played Schonberg
I envisioned play would be a static simulation of the boisterous on-the-floor rivalries I shared with my siblings.
This is a proper old boisterous boozer that just happens to serve fabulous food, and has been doing so for the past ten years. Times, Sunday Times
She said: ‘I met George and his family for the first time the week after I did the jump and I was impressed because George was very inquisitive and boisterous.’
Impossibly beautiful girls are parading down the Promenade des Anglais, hurling bright sprays of Mimosa to a boisterous crowd.
Young company Waking Exploits are reviving this boisterous comedy and taking it out on tour at a moment in time when people's faith in financial institutions is at an all-time low and the word banker has almost become synonymous with villain. This week's new theatre
And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
-- I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him -- an atrior cura at his tail -- and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Jack-indifferent cry of "Clo ', clo'!" who knows what woeful utterances are crying from the heart within? Catherine: a Story
Graveney, a man who knows a little about picking international cricketers after his 11 years as chairman of the selectors, witnessed what he calls "an extraordinary performance with both bat and ball" against Hampshire at the start of the month, in which Stokes scored a boisterous 135 not out and took six wickets with his skiddy medium pace. New kids on the block stake their claim for England Test place
Hardly anybody now alive is old enough ever to have seen and heard that boisterous old callithump known as a "dyke," which was famous enough once upon a time. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
Corunna, which is about five Leagues from this Place by Water, in a barge of fourteen Oars, but the Weather proved so boisterous, that it was impossible to go. Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 December 1779
A school of males is far more boisterous, and the most dangerous to encounter.
Visually and choreographically, the show is a snore, but you might be awakened by the hyperboisterous audience carrying on like a claque, which it may have been.
In the first month of his new program, ever-aware Gandolo imprisoned the matriarchal Rotomor Gang and the triplet harridan sisters that commanded it, hung the notorious filcher Scynod of the Prehensile Feet, and chased a boisterous company of apes-turned-highwaymen from the Regretful Tomb Way all the way across the river Snat. GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward
This might keep them out of the cinema where their boisterous behaviour has put people off going there.
He was a very small man, with pink cheeks and eye-glasses, beautifully made and still more beautifully dressed; and for all their boisterous "jollying" his auditors appeared rather to like him than the contrary. Captivating Mary Carstairs
He is a boisterous, garrulous man eager to debate issues but clearly unaccustomed to being challenged by a woman.
The result is an invigorating, boisterous look at a group of wildly cynical and libidinous college brats.
David Davis moves the old folk tale "Stone Soup" to the American Southwest for "Fandango Stew" Sterling, 32 pages, $14.95 , a boisterous picture book full of Wild West lingo that pretty much demands to be read aloud with Tex-Mex emphasis on the diphthongs. When Imagination Blasts Into Orbit
This chef is a meat man, of course, an aggressive, boisterous character used to spending long hours muscling chickens and slabs of beef over a hot open flame.
The hire agreement recommended that the equipment should be supervised at all times and that boisterous behaviour should be stopped. Times, Sunday Times
The book casts a jaundiced eye on everything from helicopter rescues and large, boisterous groups to the use of cell phones, to which Guy had a particularly strong aversion.
They will ride the surf or the bows of a vessel, constantly passing back and forth and making boisterous leaps.
'A brawler, 'or, as Delitzsch renders it,' boisterous '-- look into a liquor-store if you want to verify that, or listen to a drunken party coming back from an excursion and making night hideous with their bellowings, or go to any police court on a Monday morning. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
Towards the end, Sam's boisterousness bordered on belligerence.
Boisterous crowds dispelled the darkness of night with fireworks as crackers shattered the stillness of the night.
They woke her with their boisterous noise and lack of consideration for her indisposition.
a boisterous crowd
He was very loud and boisterous about being gay, and he lost.
America wasn't built by conformists, but by mutineers; we're a big brawling, boisterous, bucking people, and now is our time!
It had become boisterous and quite noisy so the Tavern owner had devised a way to get all the customers off each others' throats.
She also looks after her granddaughter, Abby, who is three years old, loud, boisterous and basically a handful.
The bar had a smoky atmosphere, filled with boisterous Alithanians.
For example, in one early scene, he wakes Barrett up with a boisterous aria from ‘The Barber of Seville,’ but his hand over Barrett gently mimes a stabbing motion.
Amazingly, Branagh proves himself more than equal to the task, bringing a sunny boisterousness to Much Ado About Nothing that is both charming and fresh.
Towards the end, Sam's boisterousness bordered on belligerence.
A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle.
As there was only us three in the room, and as none of us seemed to have anything to say, it wa'n't what you might call a boisterous assemblage. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe
If she is successful, pupils could become legally liable for boisterous behaviour that results in accidents. Times, Sunday Times
Covering women in the name of religious piety is anathema to the heart of France's libidinous boisterousness, which is rooted in the rejection of publicly religious declarations regardless of religion. Taylor Marsh: Burqa Battle: Rooting for Sarkozy to Win
After several months of floods, gales, tantrums, and boisterous whisky parties, he returned in triumph to a London which was already agog at his endeavour.
A fine night's carousing at the college ball was followed by a boisterous afternoon on the river at the annual regatta.
I am afraid to say that this revelation caused a certain amount of food to be spat out, and scenes of a boisterous nature which cannot be tolerated in polite society.
Here, luxuriously confined, they drew crowds of visitors attracted by their boisterous commentary.
Most were content to contemplate their deliverance, but some were more boisterous.
He is boisterous and lively like any other little boy his age.
He is a boisterous, loud, energetic man, completely at odds with the surroundings.
If she is successful, pupils could become legally liable for boisterous behaviour that results in accidents. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time though I feel like telling them, this idea is not far wrong, the only difference being that all the bears are dead and draped over the shoulders of big boisterous Russian babushkas.
The shubunkin can be boisterous with other fancy goldfish, chasing and nipping their tankmates.
Benjamin is a small blond with a boisterous spirit and a marked tendency toward speaking her mind.
On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Archive 2006-09-01
Raising a lace handkerchief, she waved it gently in the air, and the boisterous calls escalated anew. SEASONS OF GOLD
Thankfully, studentsresponded to this editorial, disputing its characterization of the Women's Center as histrionic and taking issue with the weasel words that seem to absolve the DKE brothers of culpability ( 'boisterous''provocateurs'). Leah Anthony Libresco: Yale Daily News Wrong to Condemn Outrage in Response to Sexism
The road then bends to the right, past a farm cottage with a boisterous beck tumbling from the brackened heights behind.
Scenes percolate with the natural interplay of friends and neighbors, giving rise to a barely suppressed boisterousness.
An important issue was raised by the boisterous and often unruly Labour senior whip.
The morning sunshine gave way to a sombre shroud of grey clouds, which threatened rain but failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the boisterous crowd.
The frosh in attendance were loud and boisterous in the early part of the game, cheering their Warriors on.
Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known to you; and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer voice on you: you must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition. Othello, the Moore of Venice
The Times reporter referred to a "boisterous" Giants crowd this morning so I figure that's a good sign. NYDN Rss
Sue, Mrs. Milo's petiteness became weakness, her dainty trimness accentuated her helplessness, her delicate coloring looked ill-health; while Sue, by contrast, seemed over-high as to color, almost boisterous of voice, and careless in dress. Apron-Strings
The basins were fed by snowmelt from far above, though the influx was a mere trickle compared to the boisterous torrents of spring.
boisterous practical jokes
The comic, who struggled with a drunk and boisterous crowd, lost the room in five minutes and failed to land a single gag. The Sun
We larked as recklessly, as boisterously, as joyously, Patrick and me, for a few brief weeks that summer, and when I shut my eyes I hear us larking still. Obituary
In fact the dancing in water antics are so boisterous that audience members on the front row were issued with special theme-park style ponchos to wear before the show.
D' Annunzio's in Rome, boisterous, warmongering, minacious, getting everyone riled up like a squawking parrot on a pirate's shoulder - remember Capitoline Hill?
Just then, an electronic school bell rang, and the boisterous hordes of noisy white kids started piling into the corridors and classrooms.
As boisterous entrepreneurs, now millionaires many times over, both enjoy the limelight a great deal.
My two are not the most unruly kids on the block but they are a bit boisterous.
They hailed him, and he answered, laughing boisterously and long, so that they glanced after him in surprise.
The crowd now broke into a boisterous 'hooray,' as keen for the wedding as a moment before they had been eident for the funeral. Border Ghost Stories
I met him in the small, relaxed, carpeted upper dining room, as opposed to the larger, more boisterous, uncarpeted ground-floor one.
A loud bang accompanied with boisterous laughter startled her out from her thoughts and she groaned to herself.
There's inter-band boisterousness, earlobe-biting, plenty of "gruelling" press interviews, and some genuinely touching footage of the band trying to cover up Dougie's post-break-up Priory stint. Tonight's TV highlights: The National Movie Awards | Julia Bradbury's Iceland Walk | McFly On The Wall | Justified | Wonderland: The Trouble With Love And Sex | 24 Hours In A&E
Before we go a sentence further, I must tell you, I am truly a mild-mannered fella, benignly boisterous at times, but, a Peaceful Percy for the most part. Binky Philips: I Get Bounced From the Buzzcocks
A reader sends along a copy of a breathless invitation that he received from Matthew Stadler, a Randy Gragg comrade in pretention and tortured artist-type gay author who puts together "presentations/symposia/bacchanals in Portland, Oregon, replete with food, drink, music, and general boisterousness garlanding the central pleasure of bright intellects voicing their excellent texts, winging it in conversation, and screening or presenting various textual and visual delights. Creep Suzette (Jack Bog's Blog)
A group of men drink aguardiente and sing boisterously near the water's edge to the accompaniment of a battered guitar.
On arrival at Hillsborough she was given a boisterous welcome by 150 children given time off school to greet her.
He was noisy and boisterous and Bowyer said he moved away from them because of his behaviour.
She can understand their boisterous behaviour.
Their culture says it is OK to be boisterous, to be loud and speak your mind.
In the video, a Jets fan gets hauled out of the Charger stadium, apparently for too much boisterousness in favor of the visiting team. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Internet Out in Front? Or All Alone?
But they're back to their boisterous best this year with a propulsive mix of puerility and sophistication. Times, Sunday Times
But Sharp berated Neal over the perceived inaccuracies of their "hoydenish", boisterous dancing, while she in turn accused him of pedantry. Cecil Sharp and the Morris Men
In 1756 he transferred across the road to Pembroke College, having found his Peterhouse neighbours boisterous and noisy.
I must say, though, that most of the pictures show a boisterous crowd of young people milling around, running in and out of traffic.
He was surrounded by noisy and boisterous children as he sat motionless on his throne.
Because of their boisterous natures and their genteel parentage these rascals are destined to wind up having many exciting adventures together!
The Glamorgan gentry patronized the boisterous village wakes, and even established new ones in communities which lacked them.
They caused trouble by committing thefts, playing hooky, and gathering boisterously on the streets, not by becoming drunk and disorderly.
His face darkens and his boisterous voice drops to a mutter when he talks of his loss and its effect. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly curious noise, that I'm told is known as a titter, interrupted me, and, before I had quite finished, there was a boisterous roar of laughter. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893
They approached the town with a type of weary boisterousness and slowed to a halt when reaching the gates.
The mood in their haunted honky-tonk runs from lugubrious laments to boisterous boogies, drawing in touches of ragtime, country, blues and cabaret.
The latter, a boisterous Jersey boy, has a motor mouth and often punctuates his sentences with an infectious bray of loud laughter.
The hire agreement recommended that the equipment should be supervised at all times and that boisterous behaviour should be stopped. Times, Sunday Times
I tire of the labour of thinking, and, when the table is finished, start practical jokes and set all playing at games, which we carry on with bucolic boisterousness. Chapter 37
Sometimes he was boisterously loud in his merriment, sometimes sullen and silent; and when Eustace, unwearied, reiterated his arguments, he replied to him, not only with complete want of the deference he was usually so scrupulous in paying to his dignity, but with rude and scurril taunts and jests on his youth, his clerkly education, and his inexperience. The Lances of Lynwood
Although she'd been enchanted by the boisterous reunions, her attention was immediately arrested by the man's striking colouring.
When we met, I was a boisterous, headstrong, tall, leggy blonde.
The single fellows had no such doubts (much); beneath me a bunch in slouch hats and jeans were passing the jug around boisterously, and one with a melodeon was striking up: Isabelle
When the order of "boot and saddle" was given by Habershaw, the several members of the troop repaired to their horses, where a short time was spent in making ready for the march; after which the whole squad returned to the porch and occupied the few moments of delay in that loud and boisterous carousal which is apt to mark the conduct of such an ill-organized body in the interval immediately preceding the commencement of a day's ride. Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.
A boisterous horse must have a rough bridle.
Aristotle saith that of brimstone that is boisterous and not swiftly pured, but troublous and thick, and of quicksilver, the substance of lead is gendered, and is gendered in mineral places; so of uncleanness of impure brimstone lead hath a manner of neshness, and smircheth his hand that toucheth it. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
The comic, who struggled with a drunk and boisterous crowd, lost the room in five minutes and failed to land a single gag. The Sun
It was a challenge, keeping ten boisterous seven-year-olds amused.
boisterous winds and waves
At the bottom of all the agitation a wedding sets going in us all there is lying, I think a kind of misgiving, a secret pity for the fate of the poor rose which is picked now and must forthwith wither; and our boisterous jollification is but an awkward barely successful effort at concealing it. The Life of Froude
She was presented, as usual, as ‘an eccentric playwright and poetess’, ‘a boisterous hoyden in her youth, and a woman of violent temper in her maturer years’.
The talk was boisterous, but I doubted if it was overmerry. Hurricane Island
Her entire crew of sixteen men, after several hours in open boats on a boisterous sea, succeeded in getting ashore.
A lonely widow repining for the past while enduring the boisterous attentions of her clumsy Irish housekeeper encounters a cripple collecting money for an invalid hospital.
But before that nameless prejudice that leaps beyond all this he stands helpless, dismayed, and well-nigh speechless; before that personal disrespect and mockery, the ridicule and systematic humiliation, the distortion of fact and wanton license of fancy, the cynical ignoring of the better and boisterous welcoming of the worse, the all-pervading desire to inculcated disdain for everything black, from Toussaint to the devil, — before this there rises a sickening despair that would disarm and discourage any nation save that black host to whom "discouragement" is an unwritten word. Strivings of the Negro People
The place was packed and noisy, with chopsticks clicking against plates in percussive counterpoint to the boisterous conversations. Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull
They caused trouble by committing thefts, playing hooky, and gathering boisterously on the streets, not by becoming drunk and disorderly.
Clearly their boisterousness was meant to impress the girl. Still Life
The American girls were great - loud and boisterous, and all good fun.
It was an edifice built in times when human constitutions were damp-proof, when shelter from the boisterous was all that men thought of in choosing a dwelling-place, the insidious being beneath their notice; and its hollow site was an ocular reminder, by its unfitness for modern lives, of the fragility to which these have declined. The Woodlanders
Its taste is strongly but to me pleasantly saline, with an aftertaste which hints of its invigorating chalybeate element, and an unobtrusive sparkle of carbonic acid gas which is to the boisterous energy of Soda Water as a smile is to loud laughter. Off to the Races
Jack, an affectionate, boisterous lad, lives in another world.
He was also a first-rate administrator and complemented his more boisterous chief who disliked desk work. COVER STORY
I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him — an atrior cura at his tail — and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Catherine: a story
Name, name, Mr. J, cried Hunt in a boisterous tone of friendly exultation, name as many as you please, without reserve or fear of molestation! Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen
Grab a table at Shabu, boisterous as an après-ski bar and serving inventive Pan-Asian fare like a Death Roll of soft-shell crab, or Black Angus rib eye given the Thai treatment. Head 2 Head
Laughing and joking, the dozen hungry, breakfastless girls hurried into their coats and veils, seized their pitifully small allotment of doughnuts and cookies, and boisterously climbed aboard the autos waiting for them. Tabitha's Vacation
The defensive players were boisterous and energetic and were taking it to the offense.
The faux thriller spoofery goes silly-side-up and Steve's boisterous young assistant isn't given enough to do, but this is a small price to pay for the genius that is Brooks.
Enthusiastic youths in the audience kept the atmosphere alive with catcalls, wolf whistles, loud cheers and boisterous shouts, besides the occasional hoot and the intermittent scream.
His face darkens and his boisterous voice drops to a mutter when he talks of his loss and its effect. Times, Sunday Times
He was genuinely charming, being boisterously affectionate, having a desperate desire to please, and taking a real interest in other people.
Instead she spends much of her time looking after five boisterous grandchildren. Times, Sunday Times
For example, in any group of people some may be reserved and introverted, while others may be extremely boisterous and extroverted.
One had beautiful red hair and looked quite boisterous and the other had chestnut coloured hair and she looked serious and sophisticated.
As midnight drew on,the party became more boisterous.
Rafael is a boisterous, garrulous man eager to debate issues but clearly unaccustomed to being challenged by a woman.
But Purim is most obviously characterized by a boisterous feast se'udah during which participants dress in costumes and drink to excess. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The children and the dogs raced out of the house to give me a boisterous welcome.
So did a wonderful rendition of Lezinka, a boisterous dance in a raging tempo, drums ablaze, that is popular in the Caucasus mountains and beyond. Evelyn Leopold: VE Day at the UN: Tchaikovsky and a Bit of Politics
They aren't boisterous, keep themselves neat and tidy and smile at anybody who says hello.
A boisterous festivity or celebration; merrymaking. Often used in the plural.
During his speech police in riot gear watched over a boisterous crowd.
There was a dartboard, and a pool table, and random teenagers and young adults standing around, or sitting and drinking, all of them loud and boisterous and in plain high spirits.
The colours of the hills are sensational, the skies glint in a shifting palette of smeary lights; the seas are boisterous and thrilling, the pubs cosy and firelit.
Passing the stone outcropping, a solitary monolith holding sway against the boisterous sea, a pod of dolphins cavorted on the waves, adding their own sonorous clicks and whistles to the voices of the airborne choir.
She is what you would call a boisterous child, overflowing with ebullition of spirits, _joie de vivre_, bonhomie, and all those attributes which cause people possessing them to make a noise. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel
Yet the din emanating from the country's corporate boardrooms is not that of clinking champagne glasses and boisterous merrymaking.
On a recent afternoon, she took a visitor around a shedful of 12-week-old newly weaned pigs, boisterous, curious -- and hungry. Swine Song:
They laugh heartily at every boisterous shout emitted from the small troops of black-dressed antifascists crouched near the exits, and I�m pleased to observe such an acceptingly multiethnic presence. Undefined
Girls are encouraged to be quiet, friendly, and mutually supportive, while boys are expected to be noisy, boisterous, and competitive.
Basil, though close on sixty, had moods of boisterous babyishness, and these seemed for some reason or other to descend upon him particularly in the house of his studious and almost dingy friend. The Club of Queer Trades
A more animated idea follows, with frolicking clarinets and boisterous woodblocks.
He's very boisterous and loud normally, but he becomes just the opposite.
He was surrounded by noisy and boisterous children as he sat motionless on his throne.
The place is cluttered with junk and heaving with boisterous children.
Fortunately the giggles from the Thai ladies and boisterous laughs from the lads who were nearby painted a different picture.
Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
They aren't boisterous, keep themselves neat and tidy and smile at anybody who says hello.
They were incredibly noisy and boisterous.
Then Mr. Mill's life as disclosed to us in these pages has been called joyless, by that sect of religious partisans whose peculiarity is to mistake boisterousness for unction. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography
In adulthood I learned to be more generous and grateful for having this marvelous mother, but back then I polished to a gleam my cold envy and blamed my father for loving her so boisterously, loquaciously, wantonly.
He often got chastised by other parents for things like pushing another child off the sandbox ledge in a moment of exuberance, although he did it not from anger but out of boisterousness. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
The audience watches intently, but the spell is broken when three boisterous local kids barge into the gallery.
Yesterday he was not quite so boisterous. Times, Sunday Times
It was a boisterous encounter, with the Senator alternating between his beaming bluffness and peevish refusal to address the man by name, referring to him as ‘this gentleman here’.
During his speech police in riot gear watched over a boisterous crowd.
But Purim is most obviously characterized by a boisterous feast se'udah during which participants dress in costumes and drink to excess. Purim 2011: What You Need To Know
There's no boisterous paging system, and the parts and service area is as clean as the showroom itself - not one drip of oil on the terra cotta tiles.
So did a wonderful rendition of Lezginka, a boisterous dance in a raging tempo, drums ablaze, that is popular in the Caucasus mountains and beyond. Evelyn Leopold: VE Day at the UN: Tchaikovsky and a Bit of Politics (update)
They had to walk out through the boisterous members' area of the pavilion, then jog back through it a minute later to rush padding up in the 10 minutes allowed, and then walk back through the crowd to start the innings.
We weren't drunk, but decided to be loud and boisterous, living behind our facades.
The woman breathed in the boisterous music of slum life: creaking shutters, squawking chickens, blowing laundry, clattering junkmen.
He has an agreeable kind of boisterousness, also, that should be fun to dance to. NewMusicBox
The head of a boisterous party of ex-public schoolboys calls over the waiter and asks for a bottle of hock.
This year there was boisterousness earlier in the evening as guests at the table where Watson was sitting were heckled for chatting loudly during a performance by violinist Nicola Benedetti.
Large, jolly and boisterous, Carol is regarded as something of a brick, and there are sound reasons for the affection she commands.
The crowd slumbered and even the usually boisterous Carib Beer girls gave up trying to get the spectators enthused.
In a kind of mouthwatering tango, he pranced past the boisterous tables of customers, holding a raw slab of beef on butcher's paper like a tray of drinks. Chicagotribune.com -
Zephyrus, the wester, here a noted bad character, rose from his rocky couch strong and rough, beating down the mercury to 56 degrees F.: after an hour he made way for Eurus; and the latter was presently greeted by Boreas in one of his most boisterous and blustering moods. The Land of Midian
It is, instead, boisterous and noisy and in its way, joyous, its political backdrop merely an occasion for more parkour.
It's here that he rails for the umpteenth time against lesser critics who have dared to suggest that his boisterous, agonistic account of writerly influence might be weighted in favour of a certain masculinist tradition. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
On the other side of the railway stood the cemetery on a gradual rise looking out to the boisterous Tasman Sea.
Sitting in her house full of the toys and clutter of three boisterous children, a mother shakes her head wearily.
I was always told that what might be called boisterous weather signalled my arrival. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
With a smile David added: ‘She was very boisterous, and very noisy.’
Her boisterous laugh was quite melodized, and her step did not make the crystal drops of the girandoles tinkle as ominously as they formerly did. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
In villages, the central area is where the chiefly lineage lives and people must show respect by not wearing scanty dress, hats, sunglasses, garlands, or shoulder bags, and by not speaking or laughing boisterously.
The masks are often grotesque, humorous or satirical and the dances can be noisy and boisterous.
Sharpton was a pretty big draw," says Washington schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, recalling the boisterous crowd at Cardozo. Archive 2009-05-01
The dog had an infectious energy, a boisterous nature, that spread wherever he bounded.
May the heathen ruler of the winds confine in iron chains the boisterous limbs of noisy Boreas, and the sharp-pointed nose of bitter-biting Eurus. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Florence, and cannot help presenting the most serious events in a boisterous allegrissimo, perhaps not without a malicious artistic sense of the contrast he ventures to present -- long, heavy, difficult, dangerous thoughts, and a TEMPO of the gallop, and of the best, wantonest humour? Beyond Good and Evil

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