After all, rare is the writing for the stage that can make casual if telling use of the word "bedizened," an adjective that itself amplifies our appreciation of the discourse on display: Synge's gift for verbal ornamentation was rich indeed. ❋ By MATT WOLF (2011)
Roman tales of Cleopatra as louche and languid, a bedizened wastrel, are probably crudely slanted. ❋ Sarah Ruden (2010)
Oh, and I think someone who can produce the glorious phrase ‘gorgeously-bedizened gasbag’ is not someone who missed out on a visit by the fairy godmother of lyricism in their crib. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mark the grace with which he vaults nimbly into the driver's seat beside the bedizened trot in the feathered bonnet-his aunt, doubtless-and with an expert chuck on the reins sets the team in motion and bogs the whole contraption axeldeep in the gumbo. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)
Their hair was bedizened by hundreds of tiny silver-white water beads. ❋ Stephen O’Connor (2010)
The picture showed a lady sitting there upright, bedizened in a fur hat and fur boa, with her entire forearm vanishing inside a heavy fur muff that she held out toward the viewer. ❋ Franz Kafka (2000)
With your colored eyes, you must have viewed those great ladies who stand on the high, bright terrace, turning ironically at their narrow waists, while the bedizened trains of their gowns, spreading out on the stairs, trail off on the sand in the garden. ❋ Franz Kafka (2000)
Well Mr. Rennie, the Midterm Roundup thinks you are bedizened. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They were so earnest, you know, burning down castles, fighting knights, and eating bedizened princesses. ❋ Tony Diterlizzi (2008)
A jewel of the collection is the Swiss-made Sublime Harmonie Plérodiénique from the early 1880s, which is both a bedizened desk -- it's inlaid with brass scrollwork, mother-of-pearl and ivory -- and a cylinder music box with that same extravagant decoration. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“I should have said so too,” quoth Sigismund, “for I had peeped into her bedroom before she went thither, and it was so bedizened that a queen or a princess might have slept in it and why should the wench get out of her good quarters, with all her friends about her to guard her, and go out to wander in the forest?” ❋ Unknown (2008)
There were only present, Sir William Ashton and Colonel Douglas Ashton, the last in full regimentals; Bucklaw, in bridegroom trim; Craigengelt, freshly equipt from top to toe by the bounty of his patron, and bedizened with as much lace as might have become the dress of the Copper Captain; together with the Rev.Mr. Bide-the-Bent; the presence of a minister being, in strict Presbyterian families, an indispensable requisite upon all occasions of unusual solemnity. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You have bedizened me in green, a colour he detests. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It is unlikely to be bedizened with neon and gaudy trappings. ❋ Jacqueline T Lynch (2008)
The writing is lovely and luminous, bedizened with subtle poetry. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Dolorosa, with her heart full of seven swords, which, in a gilded frame, bedizened the Spanish stern, was shivered in splinters; while, most glorious of all, the golden flag of Spain, which the last moment flaunted above their heads, hung trailing in the water. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But some great demonstration was plainly toward; for the children of the forest were arrayed in two lines, right and left of the open space, the men in front, and the women behind; and all bedizened, to the best of their power, with arnotto, indigo, and feathers. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The three-legged man was a tall, meek-looking person, who had bedizened himself with gorgeous garments, a great feather, and a sword so long and broad, that it differed little in size from the very thin and stiff shanks between which it wandered uncomfortably. ❋ Unknown (2007)
