How To Use Esq In A Sentence

  • The panel with the all the Novas in battle is a little bit Sinestro Wars-esque. Nova #7 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • La transcendance de l'égo: esquisse d'une description phénoménologique. Jean-Paul Sartre - Bibliography
  • Representing France, Jean-Marc Bustamante conjures a ‘Pavilion of the Amazons,’ which centers on four large color photographs of solitary, unsmiling young women standing in resolutely unpicturesque landscapes.
  • The next day she said the landscape as they cruised along the River Rhine was very picturesque with little villages nestling in the hills.
  • More an Irish sprite than anything, Mairead leapt, twirled, and 'arabesqued' her way across the stage courting us through her violin. Dr. Cara Barker: The Beauty of Giving Your Whole Heart
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  • He was a grotesquely inappropriate choice of speaker.
  • Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight. Virginia: the Old Dominion
  • I think bringing comedy back into a burlesque environment is a nice touch.
  • Sadly now the road is grid-locked most days, the factory is on the verge of closing, the picturesque view of what used to be a boathouse now appears to be a rubbish tip and no-one cares.
  • And we buck intreat as good as designate a saied Thomas Russell esquier as good as Frauncis Collins gent. to be overseers hereof, as good as buck revoke all former wills, as good as publishe this to be my final will as good as testament. Archive 2009-11-01
  • The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical. Translated Texts
  • This year the colourful event shirt features a clown and will be on sale in all sizes from the tiniest to the gigantesque.
  • But it was not quite the picaresque journey she presented to you. DISPLACED PERSON
  • This section of the Umfuli was usually streamlike and picturesque. Rainbow’s End
  • Joan Xie , Esq. is a senior attorney who specialized in business immigration law and immigration litigation.
  • I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
  • Laugharne is a picturesque blend of genteel georgian houses and tiny cottages.
  • Masked, they were dynamic, varied, and hilarious, so that their masks actually seemed to become their faces, despite their grotesqueness; unmasked, they were slow, hesitant, and awkward, as if ashamed of the material.
  • It was a large, three story house with a high-pitched roof and a single, cathedral-esque spire.
  • It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely polysyllabic.
  • In forming an adjective, -esque strikes me as a more elegant suffix than -ish, as in enronish or the less critical enronlike. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • The work, epic in its tendencies, belongs to the category of burlesque compositions in macaronic verse (that is in a jargon, made up of Latin words mingled with Italian words, given a Latin aspect), which had already been inaugurated by Tifi Odasi in his "Macaronea", and which, in a measure, marks a continuance of the goliardic traditions of the Middle Ages. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • A sheep dog is the unofficial greeter of Harberton Estancia, a picturesque ranch with red-roofed buildings and rolling terrain.
  • Hats bowl away, coats fly open, skirts cling, umbrellas flype themselves: and their owners, grotesquely running, grabbing, snatching, struggling, are consumed with rueful and involuntary mirth. Try Anything Twice
  • The tiny village of Clonegal nestles in a picturesque valley, deep in the lush, rolling countryside where counties Carlow, Wexford and Wicklow meet.
  • The roster of tattooed, pierced misfits and post-punk gals has become a phenomenon with a recent burlesque revue touring North America.
  • These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
  • Ironically, despite a global reversal in the world's financial fortunes, the ultrarich continue to grow (grotesquely) richer. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was truly a burlesquer a time when it was becoming much more about anatomy, and very little about burlesque.
  • There were lots of thrusts and gyrations in the class, which makes sense, since they're burlesquers, but I just don't have the coordination, sadly, to shimmy and walk backward at the same time.
  • So, have fun eating, drinking and being merry whether it's by a roaring fire or a slightly less picturesque roaring radiator.
  • Frankly, I'm not built for glissades, arabesques, entrechats or mincing around en pointe.
  • From the time the moderator gives the word, let's say it's "sesquipedalian," until your progeny very slowly spells it correctly, doesn't it seem a lifetime? Undefined
  • In 2007, Upper Iowa University will celebrate its sesquicentennial.
  • The Benedictine abbey is long gone but the eleventh-century church remains, and is one of the finest survivors of the Romanesque in France.
  • His own farces and burlesques have faded into obscurity, but this contributor to the ‘gaiety of nations' lies buried in Westminster abbey.
  • I also recall Montesquieu argued the courts should be invisible! The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional
  • The terraced waterfalls are picturesque against the backdrop of high, green mountains.
  • The front garden slopes away from the house, with the incline packed with an interesting array of shrubbery and tall flowers - white flowering eucryphia and myrtle blend with statuesque hoheriay and elegant miscanthus grasses.
  • Will their taxes repave our pot-holed roads or halt the spread of suburban shanties caused by a grotesque housing shortage? The Sun
  • The ones that really bother me, and seem to be on the decline, are the Tolkeinesque stories, but even the more modern sword and sorcery stuff, that avoids the Tolkein trappings, still has the quests and heirs and stuff that just gets old, even before it starts. SF Fanatic: I Am Not A Fan Of Fantasy, Here's Why
  • And I was really embarrassed about how grotesque it looked. The Sun
  • He was an extremely picturesque gardener, dressed in knickerbockers and leather gaiters, with a touch of red in his waistcoat, and a cardigan jacket and a cap on the side of his head. Just Patty
  • Being a great burlesque performer is about showing your body in the most beautiful way - and ballet teaches you that. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the first - the Orwellian - culture becomes a prison, whereas in the second - - the Huxleyan - culture becomes a burlesque.
  • The tradition of the picturesque dates back to paintings and depictions from centuries earlier, which portrayed peasants and farmers as happy, apple-cheeked characters working in harmony with the land.
  • Fish is a close second in this roster of edible grotesquerie.
  • This period ushered in the flowering of so-called grotesque ornamentation, where erotic hybrids abounded in uninhibited decorative fantasies.
  • Agrippa, and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him, osculantes obsecrarent ne id quod natura cogeret, ipse acceleraret, not to offer violence to himself, with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it: and so constantly died, precesque eorum taciturna sua obstinatione depressit. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • He has created a soft-spoken and gentle Barrie who is the boy who never grew up, yet never seems grotesque.
  • His stay in Italy, where he encountered Caravaggesque naturalism and tenebrism, was decisive for his art.
  • Yet the realist vision shifts to the phantasmagoric, as spectator and spectacle undergo carnivalesque reversals and interpenetration, in their darkest and most violent manifestations.
  • [Page 67] * This accomplished comment to human nature was the widow of the late Willoughby lord Middleton of Woolaton in Nottinghamshire, and wife of Edward Miller Mundy, Esq. of Shipley in the county of Derby, by whom her ladyship had one daughter now living. Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson
  • Elsewhere, another such ‘baby,’ this one with four tentacles, lies on its back, wiggling his creepy appendages at an individual wearing a cloak and a bizarre sculpturesque mound atop his head.
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  • Many conifers produce oleoresin, a complex mixture of mono-, sesqui- and diterpenoids.
  • The eyes were open—grotesquely oversize in his emaciated face, and bright yellow, the pupils as small as pinpricks—from which dribbled ocherous tears the consistency of curd. The Curse of the Wendigo
  • He began to run about in front of her, to turn, to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace.
  • Or maybe the burlesquing hepcat Spaniards will roll one by the somnolent Coasters. shedders on 9 May 2010 Pop World Cup 2010: Round of 16 Match 8 – Spain 1 Cote d’Ivoire 0 | FreakyTrigger
  • The good professor's recent "there's no heaven" moment of "Imagine"-esque aplomb is what it is. Christopher Cocca: Heaven, Hell And Stephen Hawking
  • Designed nearly a century ago to be all things to all people, it Chaplin-esquely tries to straddle thousands of rapidly fragmenting micro-niches, a mainframe in an iTouch world. The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
  • All the other extenders are noiseless, which is a big deal for some people. because they do PHP5, MySQL5, PostgreSQL 8, cPanel, Ruby on Rails, and SSH / Shell. Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
  • Populated by grotesques and caricatures it was a love/hate letter for an England fading into sepia.
  • Our quest however, soon became an odyssey into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, PDF scraping and broken links.
  • A picturesque setting overlooking the city of Bath. Times, Sunday Times
  • Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there. Little Women
  • Rashes can be categorized as maculopapular (centrally and peripherally distributed), petechial, diffusely erythematous with desquamation, vesiculobullous-pustular and nodular.
  • This kind of grotesque stupidity gives foreign aid a bad name. The Sun
  • By the 1670's, most English silver was being heavily embossed and chased with flowers and foliage, fluting and gadroons, grotesques closely following the Continental pattern books.
  • Tracing the growth of the border is a pleasant pastime, a game of history in which amorini, grotesques and nymphs are the personages, and garlands of flowers their perpetual accessories, but first comes the time when there were no borders, the Middle Ages. The Tapestry Book
  • You can tell this isn't going to be a winter of picturesque snowscapes and mitten-clad children scampering around with their hoods up - it's one of the bleak, sub-zero temperatures variety.
  • Ritha Chatterjee once wrote that Damayanti had brought to Kathak ‘flowing lines and sculpturesque poses.’
  • Amongst the intricate arabesques little angels'-heads were embossed, and on one side a group of cherubs was bearing a "monstrance" with the sacred Host through silver clouds. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster
  • The medieval ports of Lannion and Treguier are short drives away, each with picturesque timbered houses and ancient churches.
  • French literary patron noted for her correspondence with Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Horace Walpole.
  • Today we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement.
  • The houses were in a picturesque village, and the first one was absolutely bogging.
  • Similarly, the emphasis on waiting times for day surgery leads to a grotesque distortion of priorities.
  • For, although the said Giovanni and others have carried them to absolute perfection, it is none the less true that the chief praise is due to Morto, who was the first to bring them to light and to devote his whole attention to paintings of that kind, which are called grotesques because they were found for the most part in the grottoes of the ruins of Rome; besides which, every man knows that it is easy to make additions to anything once it has been discovered. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto
  • The first window -- _i. e._ the westernmost window nearest to the slype -- is a memorial to J. Francillon, Esq., a judge of the county court, who died in 1866. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
  • Towards the close of the disease, after desquamation has begun, the temperature of the room may be kept at 70°, as then the fever and heat have subsided and the delicate skin of the patient requires a comfortable temperature. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms
  • As an added bonus, we can have the sesquicentennial again and do it properly this time.
  • Our comic play was a burlesque of a Shakespearean tragedy.
  • Dans la cocotte, ajoutez la cassonade, et faites réduire le jus jusqu'à consistance sirupeuse, presque caramélisée. A Foodie Froggy in Paris
  • Highland Territorial battalions crossed the Grand Ravine and entered Flesquieres, where fierce fighting took place.
  • My sense of proportion left me; my judgment took on the grotesque exaggerations of a cruel cartoon.
  • L infiniment oubliee (Les ditions du Vermillon) - Jean Mohsen Fahmy, Freres ennemis (VLB Editeur) - Daniel Poliquin, Rene Levesque (Les ditions du Boreal) - Daniel Soha, La Maison: une parabole (ditions du GREF) Canada.com Top Stories
  • Here an exclamation of "Mercy, mercy!" called the esquire's attention, and he beheld his amiable consort sinking aghast, with uplifted hands on Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
  • These elements are set against a large field in shades of pink, swept with arabesques of grays and dashes of white, sometimes with light impasto in the brushwork.
  • Even happiness gets tire time in a Montesquieu.
  • A yachter in South Africa says her trip off the country's picturesque southwestern coast was wrecked by an unexpected whack from a whale. CBS 5 - San Francisco Bay Area's source for news, weather, traffic and sports
  • Take, for instance, 'The North Will Rise Again' from the new 'Grotesque' album, a song widely misconstrued as just another provincialist rant: New Musical Express
  • “Who is this broad with an "Esq." after her name slamming divorce lawyers?” you may ask yourself. Belinda Etezad Rachman: Divorce Lawyers and the Reptilian Brain
  • South Windsor is a lovely little town and the drive down to the launch was picturesque with rolling cornfields and wildflower meadows.
  • We can speak of encountering, sometimes in the most unlikely settings, dynamics most succinctly described as "Proustian," "Austenesque" and "Kafkan. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Champs-Elysées, du Sacre du printemps dont le scandale triomphal éclipsa totalement Jeux, une partition bien trop complexe, diaphane, subtile, ésotérique presque, que l'on a mis une cinquantaine d'années à comprendre réellement. AvaxHome
  • Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. Languagehat.com
  • He worked in burlesque and vaudeville theaters and then on Broadway in such plays as The Night Circus (1958), One More River (1960), and Do Re Mi (1962). Five People Born at the End of April | myFiveBest
  • Other panels are decorated with arabesques consisting of delicate scrolls incorporating stylized sunflowers and anthemia rendered in very thin lines of ivory-colored paint.
  • My thanks are particularly due to my friend Miss Robbins, who has very kindly redrawn the occasionally rather blottesque figures of the first edition. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • Instead, this title practices the picaresque by following a rogue on his adventures in the mundane world. Archive 2007-06-01
  • It's jutting out from the corner of the roof, so it could conceivably be a gargoyle proper or a grotesque.
  • THERE is no slowing down for the glam American burlesque dancer as she heads through her fifth decade. The Sun
  • The Esquimaux prefer it raw in these parts of the world (although some travellers assert that in more southern latitudes they prefer cooked meat), and with good reason, for it is much more nourishing than cooked flesh; and learned, scientific men, who have wintered in the Arctic regions, have distinctly stated that in those cold countries they found raw meat to be better for them than cooked meat, and they assure us that they at last came to _prefer_ it! The World of Ice
  • He occasionally invents grotesquely exaggerated success stories in a self-mocking parody of his frustrated bourgeois ambitions.
  • The scenery surrounding me was so picturesque, so grand that it took my breath away even though I'd seen it a myriad number of times before.
  • The small, intimate restaurant glowed with the lit gas lanterns; the shamisen player played a beautifully grotesque arrangement of the centuries old song that probably had no end.
  • Similarly, the emphasis on waiting times for day surgery leads to a grotesque distortion of priorities.
  • With their sculptural groupings of precisely calibrated arabesques, these dances distilled Ashton's personal classicism to pure essence.
  • They jump effortlessly from new wave-tinged rockers to Queen-like bombast to stunning Beatlesque ballads to jazzy art-pop, without losing their touch with hooks that lodge themselves in your cranium and refuse to let go. Tony Sachs: One More Once: A Listen Back At The Records That Made 2010 More Bearable
  • They draw back their bows once more and hope to find love - and a dream holiday - for a personal trainer and a burlesque dancer. The Sun
  • This one is without arms, that one has had his shoulder pulled down out of shape in order that his grotesqueries may excite laughter…
  • Callan finds a host of possibilities for this ‘punching’ process, including tapping Mac Zedong into Elvis in a Warhol monograph, and making layered, sculpturesque objects that look like topographical maps.
  • His apparent instruction to passport control officers to wave through hordes of visitors unchecked was a grotesque dereliction of duty. The Sun
  • A grotesque parody Perhaps that's fine. The Sun
  • Fifteen miles north of Cambridge is the splendid Romanesque cathedral at Ely.
  • Immediately opposite was a grotesque figure of Satan, no doubt in canonicals also, with cloven foot and horns, belching out fire and brimstone on the terrified audience.
  • I am neurochemist-turned-attorney who just expected a little more by way of factual support for Carter's bias or lies a Clinton-esque lie for example. "Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information..."
  • The play takes the audience back to 1898 through presentations of wild west acts, musical extravaganzas, ridiculous comedy, a touch of burlesque and boxing - all of which actually took place in the Palace Grand Theatre.
  • Gavin seems happier than I've ever seen him in Bachelor world, where he lives the life of supermodel Sultan, wooing compliant, star-stuck ladies in deserted theme parks, providing them with burlesque ie stripping classes, going on excursions to clifftop picnics where shrieking fillies are made to hurtle across the cliffs by Tarzan slide, clinging round his powerful torso. The Bachelor: Grace Dent's TV OD
  • The Shaykh opened the door and they two entered a vestibule vaulted with onyx stones and arabesqued with gold, and they stayed not walking till they came to a great hall and a wide, paved and walled with marble. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Having immersed myself in his life, it infuriates me that the man behind some of the greatest films ever made should have been reduced to this awkward, exiled and in some ways grotesque figure.
  • The agent meets me outside the pastel-coloured Victorian villa, which sits on one of the area's most picturesque and leafy squares.
  • Those trollers are so picturesque, and I'd always wanted to step aboard one.
  • Third grade students do school work during class at Hanby Elementary School in Mesquite, Texas.
  • Soon the rectangular farms gave way to rugged ranch land, canyons, ravines , red earth-and lots of mesquite trees.
  • Wrangham -- a college acquaintance of mine, -- an admirer of me, and a pitier of my principles; -- one to George Augustus Pollen, Esq.; one to Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
  • burlesque hall of fame, dixie evans, exotic world, kitten deville, liz renay, michelle l'amour, new york burlesque festival Inspiration and Execution: Tribute Numbers in Burlesque
  • Even the tots wore their costumes and enjoyed the fun, peering through their grotesque masks, and frightening their elders.
  • Paul Levesque, a principal at the management consulting firm MedStar Partners, identifies some key aspects of medical product development.
  • Not much has changed since the 1920s, and walking into the lobby, with ornate Ottoman furniture and arabesque tiles, is like stepping into an Agatha Christie novel.
  • He shouldn't burlesque the elder.
  • You don't have to be a Frasier-esque oenophile to surf the site; its tone is both chatty and informative.
  • The novel shows how a racist representation can become so naturalized through its repetition in such forms as popular music that it engages the participation of even those whom it burlesques.
  • He had a talent for self-advertisement and had built himself up into a picturesque figure given to gnomic utterances about his own significance in the world.
  • He seriously protested that the bow of Blandois was perfect, that the address of Blandois was irresistible, and that the picturesque ease of Blandois would be cheaply purchased (if it were not a gift, and unpurchasable) for a hundred thousand francs. Little Dorrit
  • Je ne suis que le frotteur de madame, said the man, placing his arm a-kimbo, and flying about the room, in all sorts of attitudes, in, what Peter thought, a very burlesque manner. Paris Lions and London Tigers
  • When Brenda reads to Tony from the morning papers, her disengaged chatter runs together nightmarish grotesqueries and social gossip.
  • Todo a falácia da democracia racial cai por terra frente a casos como este – e poderíamos listar tantos outros que ganharam repercussão e depois foram esquecidos, na maioria das vezes marcados pela impunidade. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Can black people drive luxury cars?
  • Yet Matisse continued to work in this trademark style, with its emphasis on arabesque lines, bright colors and decoration, throughout his long artistic life.
  • CCOT opened the program with performances of Stravinsky's instrumental "Ragtime" (1918) and the "burlesque" "Renard" (1916), both of which were acrobatically choreographed by Kun-Yang Lin. When Words Got in the Way
  • The peak that bears 93 1/2 degrees I have called the Grierson after R. Grierson, Esquire, of Great Bourke Street West, Melbourne. McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
  • He raised a fist halfway and pressed on further back into the picaresque. THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • The very wording of the title points straight to the picaresque, and the connexion is perhaps most strongly in evidence in this novel. Nobel Prize in Literature 1976 - Presentation Speech
  • And his Tex-Mex barn-burners "Demasiado Corazon" and "Spanish Stroll" go so far as to incorporate doo-wop and Dylanesque folk touches. Brilliant, Shook-Up Guy
  • Sure enough, there was Billy, all 5ft 7in of him, with his undeniably pixie-esque features and tufty hair.
  • In this exceptionally picturesque region, beauty and grinding toil continue to coexist, very much as described in John Steinbeck's novels, notably The Grapes of Wrath.
  • Beauty and light glowed from classic mantel and carven cornice and walls grotesquely figured, while a sleek black cat rose yawning from hearthside sleep that his master's start and shriek had disturbed. The Best Endings in Science Fiction
  • In closed comedones (whiteheads), a mass of desquamated cells plugs the follicular canal above the opening of the sebaceous gland. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The novel shows how a racist representation can become so naturalized through its repetition in such forms as popular music that it engages the participation of even those whom it burlesques.
  • A picturesque setting overlooking the city of Bath. Times, Sunday Times
  • She's a big girl, not obese but what we used to call Junoesque. Archive 2006-01-01
  • Other panels are decorated with arabesques consisting of delicate scrolls incorporating stylized sunflowers and anthemia rendered in very thin lines of ivory-colored paint.
  • The microscopical examination of mucus and desquamated membrane from a woman sixty-five years of age, disclosed that she was suffering from proctitis and colitis. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
  • Despite the figurative grotesquerie, which is more nuisance than threat, it is a painting of nothing — no thing as such but atmosphere — a moody, indeterminate matter expressive of an interior mental state conjured through paint and paint alone. Ensor Unmasked
  • Magnatum scrinia; veni, per Noctis & tenebrarum abdita profundissima; per labentia sydera; per ipsos motus horarum furtivos, Hecatesq [ue] altum silentium! Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
  • [3] If the periodic times are in the sesquiplicate ratio of the radii, and therefore the velocities reciprocally in the subduplicate ratio of the radii, the centripetal forces will be in the duplicate ratio of the radii inversely; and the converse. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
  • The sections in sesquialtera can then be conducted by simply altering the even tactus of the opening duple meter to an uneven tactus, without changing the timing of the full tactus beat itself.
  • Suddenly the writer remembers the nameless malady of the poor — that mysterious disease which the rich share but cannot alleviate, which is too subtle for doctors, too incurable for Parliaments, too unpicturesque for philanthropy, too common even for sympathy. The Greatest Thing in the World And Other Addresses
  • “Dans les écoles, les collèges et les lycées publics, le port de signes ou tenues par lesquels les élèves manifestent ostensiblement une appartenance religieuse est interdit.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Georgia Courts Expressly Allow Religious Headgear in Court:
  • A man may keep his friendship sacred, because promises of friendship are very awful ties; but, methinks, he cannot, but in a burlesque sense, be said to keep his ease _sacred_. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
  • It is most contagious at the height of the disease and during desquamation. The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses
  • The picturesque old town, situated on the summit of a scarped hill, lies northwest of Reims and northeast of Paris.
  • They're planning the conference in a picturesque locale: University of Victoria.
  • Did you know the burlesque dancer 's also a designer these days? Times, Sunday Times
  • The Eroticized Orient: Images of the Harem in Montesquieu and his Precursors. Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore
  • The labouring poor of Shakespeare's London, deformed by drudgery, illness, and accident, tormented by vermin, illiterate and unregenerate, must have presented a certain Calibanesque aspect.
  • Such arabesques are called grotesques by the ignorant. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • Penn Townsend Esq '' from the Committee appointed to Consider, about the Indian Hostages, Gave in the following Report, Viz ', Pur - suant, to the Within Order, The Committee, therein Named mett & find itt difficult to form any projection better for Securing the Indian Hos - tages, than by Continuing them in Cambridge Goal, where they now be. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
  • The one true romance has had its legs cut out from under it; we are left with the ugly, grotesque caricature of lust that drives these two to their ultimate doom.
  • Five picturesque Cornish villages are calling for a ban on new-build houses being sold as second homes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The title devolved upon his brother, Sir Howard who had married, in July 1799, Anne, eldest daughter of James Dundas, Esq. The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1
  • His coolly rationalist approach to religion was complemented by an excitable temperament and a taste for the picaresque.
  • There's Actroid, a mannequinesque gynoid who wows corporate guests with her dynamic facial expressions and cheeky conversation skills (ask her how much she weighs, and she'll tell you what she can bench-press). Why Should We Be Friends?
  • Almost all other commentary was grotesque - the work of armchair generals.
  • The mountains were covered with good bunch-grass, (_festuca_;) the water of the streams was cold and pure; their bottoms were handsomely wooded with various kinds of trees; and huge and lofty picturesque precipices where the river cut through the mountain. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
  • His "orgie" is certainly not much of a success; few orgies in print are, except when they are burlesqued. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
  • They include an old dining-hall of much picturesqueness, kitchens, pantries, and butteries, some of them only lighted by very narrow windows. Yorkshire
  • Being a burlesque dancer wasn't as glamorous as folk singing suddenly is. The Sun
  • The first subject is announced appassionato by the strings, the piano joining with arabesquery that follows the general outlines. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
  • With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.
  • Emperor Charles V., an accomplished soldier and a learned historian -- such was the creator of the hungry rogue Lazarillo, and the founder of the "picaresque" school of fiction, or the romance of roguery, which is not yet extinct. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
  • On November 26, 1950, First Baptist Church staged an elaborate sesquicentennial celebration.
  • J'etire mes babines avec douleur, et comme mes dents sont serrée depuis samedi (entre temps j'avais pas mangé du tout depuis samedi vu comment j'etais malade) ca esquisse une sorte de truc bizarre. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
  • And whilst each one hent bunch in hand, the gardener brought the wine-service and setting it before them, on a tray of porcelain arabesqued with red gold, recited these two couplets, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The cocoanut-palm, date-palm and orange orchards contrasted their rich foliage in the sunshine with the pineapple, banana and the rich soft turf of the mesquit-grass. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
  • The military stands out as a particularly grotesque example of the latter.
  • My brother was ‘a naughty boy’ and dabbled with drugs, nothing grotesquely bad, just uppers and downers, but we think one day he got carried away and accidentally took too many of one sort or the other.
  • They later made a second Chernobylesque blunder by bodging a highly-explosive warhead part back together with tape.
  • Besides the dances common among us, a sort of fandango is a favourite here: it is expressly adapted to display the graces of a fine figure to the best advantage, and is danced by two persons, whose picturesque attitudes and motions are accompanied on the guitar, and by tender songs, according in expression with the pantomimical representations of the dance. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1
  • Though the island's moonlike interior - pockmarked with lime and mudflats - makes for a startling contrast with the picturesque coastline.
  • Demands for a picturesque and playable turf in place by tourist season make waiting for appropriate seasonal temperatures an unrealistic option for most turf managers.
  • The ill-considered and grotesque roadway has been a scar on the wonderful upland environment since a former owner of the estate thought he could create a ski development up on the roof of Scotland.
  • Mier's Apologia frequently approximates the picaresque narrative's structure and thematics, and it reveals a baroque style.
  • Conan attends a party for the “Miss Japanesque” awards, where he happens to eat a cake that temporarily transforms him back into Shinichi Kudo (Oguri). News: Upcoming Live-action Dramas, Winter 2007/2008 « Undercover
  • Burlesque served as a way to counterpoise what these veterans felt was a menacing trend perpetuated by elites - the threat of black equality and a perversion of the war's memory.
  • Wildgoose promptly falls in love with a fascinating damsel-errant, Julia Townsend; and the various adventures, religious, picaresque, and amatory, are embroiled and disembroiled with very fair skill in character and fairer still in narrative. The English Novel
  • It was a magnificent day; but as I looked over the landscape I thought I understood why the woods, which one looks down on from a similar Italian height, are called macchie ” stains, whereas our ordinarily more picturesque language knows no such term and no such image. What I Remember
  • And his Tex-Mex barn-burners "Demasiado Corazon" and "Spanish Stroll" go so far as to incorporate doo-wop and Dylanesque folk touches. Brilliant, Shook-Up Guy
  • The sesquicentennial celebration will last through May 2004 and will encompass a variety of special events involving those affiliated with the university, as well as its surrounding community.

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