How To Use Rumbustious In A Sentence
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Assumptions that the culprit was the Stoke City fan Malcolm Clarke, viewed by many of his peers in the FA council as its most rumbustious member, would be wide of the mark.
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The Savage Detectives is a rumbustious account of idealist anarchist poets which drew an international audience.
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño – review
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He encouraged us to read a great deal, too, especially the great rumbustious nineteenth-century French novels, for my father's temperament is for the romantic, the extravagant, the wild and poetic and beautiful.
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Lord Hailsham was one of the most rumbustious politicians of his age.
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The rumbustious humor, gleefully mixing sex, scatology and food, resembles Fellini at his most burlesque, while the hints of the surreal and the supernatural recall South American magic realism.
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Nothing in the work is more engaging than the start of the finale, where rumbustious high spirits reform into an infectious polacca.
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The dinners were rumbustious affairs and the focal point was the food.
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The script is the usual rumbustious homage to the twin horrors of suburbia and impending doom.
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The dinners were rumbustious affairs and the focal point was the food.
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The script is the usual rumbustious homage to the twin horrors of suburbia and impending doom.
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This is even more anthemic than their debut, with the rumbustious gang feel of early Dexys, chiming guitars and a chorus to bellow very loudly.
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Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen.
Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
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There are rumbustious animal fights and wrestling matches, and Holi is celebrated on horseback, on elephant back, on foot, in a whirl of shifting colours.
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Good", sweet caring girls stuck to prams and dolls' houses while "real" rumbustious, daring, active boys were given cars, guns, boats and planes It's a tribute to the sticking power of stereotypes that, as many more men are taking on child-rearing duties hence, perhaps, the reason why the everyday pushchair looks like an aeronautics gadget and more women are seen on the battle front, the kingdom of toys remains resolutely segregated on traditional lines.
Lucky boy raised without gender stereotypes | Yvonne Roberts
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Stravinsky originally conceived of the ballet as a modernist work - a rumbustious Joycean collage depicting a Russian village wedding.
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Everybody knows that the politician has a rumbustious temperament, I think journalists know that more than most.
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Slim, bald, and carefully courteous, he is the most understated Glaswegian you could meet, palpably different from the aggressively rumbustious salesmen that used to dominate the arms industry.
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That, in turn, leads to rumbustious popular numbers, dances and choruses, notably a riotous rumba.
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His mellifluous voice frequently erupts in rumbustious laughter.
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Rounding off an exceptionally well-filled and desirable disc is a handful of Poulenc miniatures, ranging from the vulgarity of his early Valse via the farcical Manes de la Tour Eiffel pieces to the rumbustiously jolly Matelote provencale.
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A plant can be an obedient herb in one habitat and a rumbustious weed somewhere else.
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Good", sweet caring girls stuck to prams and dolls' houses while "real" rumbustious, daring, active boys were given cars, guns, boats and planes It's a tribute to the sticking power of stereotypes that, as many more men are taking on child-rearing duties hence, perhaps, the reason why the everyday pushchair looks like an aeronautics gadget and more women are seen on the battle front, the kingdom of toys remains resolutely segregated on traditional lines.
Lucky boy raised without gender stereotypes | Yvonne Roberts
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A plant can be an obedient herb in one habitat and a rumbustious weed somewhere else.
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The best songs here follow their previous blueprint: rollicking, rumbustious blues-banjo riots.
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Indeed no party has the kind of rumbustious everyman with the chutzpah to carry it off.
Eye on Britain
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They are shy, mostly, though you'd not think so on a scrumpy [rough apple cider] night when things can get rather lively and rumbustious.
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The first half of the concert moved from 16th century recorder music, through Mozart, vocal chamber music, on to rumbustious wind sea shanties and then a lively string quintet.
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The large crowds at race courses and football matches, rumbustious but not often posing a real problem of public order, reflected a disciplined and orderly workforce.
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Navy towns, as McKee reports, are no longer so rumbustious.
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Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen.
Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
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Many rumbustious celebrations were held on this occasion!
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Someone with real authority in Scottish Labour should gently put an arm around him and suggest that if he can't handle merely being accused of anti-Scottishness in the course of what promises to be a rumbustious campaign he might wish to pursue another career.
Poor Robert Burns. He deserves better than this | Kevin McKenna
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Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity.
When Life Depends On Scrabble
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beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings
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There is a constant feeling of suppressed impatience from him, although every so often he breaks into a wheezy, rumbustious, infectious laugh.
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The atmosphere that prevailed was redolent of a Gainsborough studio set for a rumbustious period drama.
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The Bible was plundered for yet more laughs in films like Evan Almighty, The God Complex, Year One and perhaps most rumbustiously of all, The Real Old Testament.
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A plant can be an obedient herb in one habitat and a rumbustious weed somewhere else.
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While King Henry IV attempts to unite the warring factions making up his kingdom, his son Prince Hal prefers the rumbustious company of Sir John Falstaff.
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The jokes are pushed to their limits but it's skilfully done, with excellent singing notably Julia Riley, Clint van der Linde, Laura Mitchell and rumbustious playing from the Old Street Band conducted by Jonathan Peter Kenny.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Xerxes; La bohème – review
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Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity.
When Life Depends On Scrabble
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Again, Bruckner advances his tonal phrases upwards, an Austrian trait that delights the senses with rumbustious feelings.
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Here's a brief quote from one of the short 'reviews': 'Kate Atkinson's funny, furious fourth novel rumbustiously drives a path through the genre of detective fiction, demolishing its careful, forensic summations of human behaviour and replacing them with bloody, believable, vigorous tales of wrongdoing and loss, of personal eccentricity and recognisable fate, and most importantly of people who were very much alive before they were dead.'
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Keith Richards's Life Weidenfeld & Nicolson is a rumbustious but surprisingly well-remembered memoir of the rock'n'roll life.
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There is a constant feeling of suppressed impatience from him, although every so often he breaks into a wheezy, rumbustious, infectious laugh.
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His solo career is notable for huge variety ... from sparse piano balladry, to rumbustious rock and roll, to electronic experimentation.
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The rarely heard Loeffler work is a gem of beauty with a characteristically expansive opening and a rumbustious Russian dance as a Finale.
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On the one hand, she had a happy, rather rumbustious family background; on the other, she was deprived of much maternal affection and of education.
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The good humour was infectious and the rumbustious crowd of students, boiler-makers, steelworkers, auto-workers and other union members stamped their approval.
