But now both Congress and the president are having second thoughts; treating the deal like a dead horsefly floating in their cut-glass tumbler of 25 year-old Scotch. ❋ Will Durst (2011)
Nearly 6-foot-3 and handsome in a cut-glass, Teutonic sort of way, the 48-year-old Frenchman seems at home among the museum's looming plaster casts of war horses and generals. ❋ Nancy Hass (2011)
Care – oh my, of course, I forget that we have an accent, and I assure you that both of us have very cut-glass British accents! ❋ Unknown (2009)
I had this fantasy that me (Bill Cullen) and my scrappy girl Peggy (who in this fantasia was not an actress but a top-rated playwright …) would roam Manhattan by moonlight, stopping into wood-lined libraries with fancy cut-glass decanters draped with little medallions encrusted in rubies that spelled out “Scotch” or “Charteuse” or whatever, and solve crimes and get stories and befriend all the lonely Knickerbocker rich kids in the Theatre District zip code. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The woman kept saying, "Fuck me, Gerald," in a cut-glass accent, which was funny, but Gerald himself soon wiped the grin off my face with his grunting, which wasn't really grunting at all, but instead consisted of the words "oh" and "ah" crisply orated aloud, like Sir Laurence Olivier reading dialogue off a card at an early rehearsal. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Liam McIntyre comes in as the new Spartacus – Andy Whitfield having died of cancer after making the first series – but otherwise it's business as usual with amputations, slow-motion arterial sprays, men with glistening pecs and back, sack and crack waxes, and women with breast surgery sporting Brazilians and accents that vary from American and Australian to cut-glass English. ❋ Unknown (2012)
On this theory, Riedel changed the design of the stemware from its prevalent colored, cut-glass design then to a plain, thin hand-blown, long-stemmed wine glass. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I was, however, amused to hear a cut-glass variant which extends to two words – "ep slootley". ❋ Unknown (2011)
A large ceramic bowl the color of skim milk, with a pattern of thin blue curling lines, sat in the center of the table between cut-glass salt and pepper shakers and an empty wooden napkin holder. ❋ Brad Watson (2010)
Curiously, it was also covered by the soprano Elsa Stenning, “The Australian Nightingale,” who, with cut-glass diction, achieved success at Covent Garden considerably earlier, in the 1930s. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We can do the draw out of this cut-glass award for stellar mega blockbuster authorship … ❋ Unknown (2009)
A cut-glass accent and the ability to look good in a bonnet used to be a must for young British actresses looking to secure their careers. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He was about to start mixing gin and tonics in cut-glass tumblers when we heard the lion's roar. ❋ Sara Clemence (2011)
Yes, it was a breakthrough to get away from the cut-glass accents of the early BBC, but it wasn't quite the untarnished joy in all things local this film portrayed. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Then veal and scallop tartare with a wine-flavored, silky light gel é e served in cut-glass stemware. ❋ Nidra Poller (2011)
They looked like dried flowers that had curled up, collecting dust in an old cut-glass vase without water. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At one end of the scale comes the cut-glass chatter, politeness and rippling applause of a Lord's gathering, and at the other the deafening fire-cracker celebrations of a Tendulkar century. ❋ Unknown (2010)
