Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.

Slight, he was about 5 ' 6 " with dark brown curls, a florid complexion and features which James Boswell thought were " rather too largely and strongly limned.

It was freezing cold but Wilde arrived dressed in " florid sobriety ", wearing a green carnation.

According to William of Malmesbury, William Rufus was " well set ; his complexion florid, his hair yellow ; of open countenance ; different coloured eyes, varying with certain glittering specks ; of astonishing strength, though not very tall, and his belly rather projecting.

Bernstein magnanimously removed his name as co-author of the lyrics, although Sondheim was uncertain he wanted to receive sole credit for what he considered to be overly florid contributions by Bernstein.

He was influential in European Modern architecture, and in his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, with the Austrian version of Art Nouveau.

Often the style of the drawings are very florid, and frilly, as was already the fashion in Fourth-Century Athens.

In spite of its florid style, it is of value as a record ( on the whole impartial ) of events of which he was either an eyewitness or which he had heard of first hand ( though he should be balanced with the other Greek historian for this time, John Kinnamos ).

This was a sort of florid romance, in two books of six-line stanzas, in the manner of Lodge and Shakespeare, dealing at large with the complaint of Daphnis for the love of Ganymede.

The dialogue and banter was considered a positive and defining aspect of the film ; Janet Maslin of The New York Times said that " Star Trek VI is definitely colorful, but even more of its color comes from conversation, which can take some amusingly florid turns.

His ' ideal ' orator was Cicero, and Seneca disapproved of the florid tendencies of the oratory of his time.

Her own account of her escape is, as usual, so florid that it provokes the question whether she was really in any danger.

His oratory, according to Cicero, was of the Asiatic style, a florid rhetoric, better to hear than to read.

His literary style was florid, with much detail, allusion, and quotation, often from the Bible as well as the Greeks and Romans.

Apparently the coloratura soprano Elisa Volpini, who was to sing Philine, felt that her aria at the end of the second act (" Je suis Titania ") was insufficient, and another florid aria (" Alerte, alerte, Philine!

The 1858 image of Pio Pico was used as an example of florid acromegaly in the scientific review paper " Acromegaly Pathogenesis and Treatment " published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Haydn's esteem for his impresario and orchestral leader can sometimes be seen in the symphonies ( for example, the cadenza in the slow movement of the 96th, the phrase marked Salomon solo ma piano in the trio of the 97th, and the florid violin part of the second movement of the 103rd ); the Sinfonia Concertante in B flat was composed for Salomon, who played the solo violin part ; and the six string quartets opp.

He used the florid style of the day, but was not one to exaggerate.

From this time Porpora's career was a series of misfortunes: his florid style was becoming old-fashioned, his last opera, Camilla, failed, his pension from Dresden stopped, and he became so poor that the expenses of his funeral were paid by a subscription concert.

Cartwright became reader in metaphysics at Oxford University and was, according to Wood, the most florid and seraphical preacher in the university.

He owed a good deal to Théophile Gautier, but his writing was more florid than Gautier's.

Weems ' A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington, was a biography written in this spirit, amplified by the florid, rollicksome style which was Weems ' trademark.

It was she who re-invented and renamed the original version, called Dripping Pudding, which had been cooked in England for centuries, although these puddings were much flatter than the puffy versions known today.

He was an old man with a white beard, a puffy tail and no trousers, shorts, or undergarments.

Meanwhile, Ali took every opportunity to shoot straight punches to Foreman's face ( this quickly took a toll on his face, which was soon visibly puffy ), and when the two fighters were locked in clinches, Ali consistently out-wrestled Foreman, using tactics such as leaning on Foreman to make Foreman support Ali's weight, and holding down Foreman's head by pushing on his neck.

" Bonnet " is also the term for the puffy velvet fabric inside the coronet of some male ranks of nobility, and " the affair of the bonnets " was a furious controversy in the France of Louis XIV over the mutual courtesies due between the magistrates of the Parlement de Paris and the Dukes of France.

The shorter Jeune Pritchard interview was included in a special on the current Australasian tour by The Rolling Stones, and showed Roxon looking obviously puffy and unwell.

At the time, Vidrine was described as a " huge 200-pound man with a puffy face and grayish hair.

It was briefly used in the Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide episode " Guide to: The First Day " in which Cookie begins getting hot in his puffy red coat, even though he still refuses to take it off.

Marge admits that she was trying to keep Homer from attending because of his drunken antics at the previous year's event ( he jumped into a cotton candy machine, claiming he was a " puffy pink cloud ").

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

against this bent man in the chair he was powerless.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

Carl Dill was neither a rancher nor a valley man.

He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

He was an honest man doing a hard job, and the implication that he was anything else was unbearable.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.

Macklin was the third man to come out, and he came unhurriedly.

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.

He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.

`` Fred was mighty crude about the way he took in cattle '' his own hired man, Andy Ross, mentioned later.

For that legend was growing explosively, Rumor was insisting he received a price of $600 a man.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.