(Costume designer Reggie Ray has a field day with Pauletta's showily chic outfits.) ❋ Celia Wren (2010)
In 2008, Obama was inarguably the Democratic candidate who took the showily standoffish position towards labor, both organized and unorganized. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But historically, there has usually been a niche in the Democratic primary field for a candidate who adopts a showily standoffish position towards labor. ❋ Unknown (2009)
After the meal, Madam Ma made a point of showily detouring around Rose, who was playing on the floor. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Throughout the speech the president gestured showily, distractingly, with his hands. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was my only taste in life of what it felt like to be a very smart student, one of those people who breezes through tests and spends the rest of the exam hour slouching showily at her desk while the other students toil away, one eye on the enemy, the ever-ticking clock. ❋ Emily W. Upham (2010)
Senate candidate Rob Simmons right before he lost the state GOP convention's endorsement to Linda McMahon, got back in the game this week by showily calling for Sarah Palin to endorse Simmons. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Four feet away, Rich Seubert showily circled his arms around an imagined Mr. Andrews. ❋ Aditi Kinkhabwala (2010)
A tall, broad-shouldered brunette with a taste in clothes that is a cross between tailored elegance and earth mother, she is commanding, almost showily confident. ❋ LAURIE ABRAHAM (2010)
If standard accompaniment was so rough, can we be surprised that Bulgaria's Evgeni Bozhanov, a flashy, showily brutal performer, reached the finals, while Israel's Ran Dank, a far better musician who in a May 30 semifinal performance offered up stylistically astute versions of Bach Partita No. 4 in D major and Prokofiev's kaleidoscopic 6th Sonata, was eliminated by the final round? ❋ Unknown (2009)
It trivializes his alleged crimes to showily spew inane jargon, especially when nothing else is included in the presentation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
When Jews walk and talk loudly, dress “showily,” and use a toothpick “profusely” while in public, said one Jewish newspaper, it was no wonder that hotel keepers were justified in “exercising discretion.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
He instructed her to showily stand up and leave the classroom when the Pledge of Allegiance was being said each morning. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Feeling the strain of that 1-year time limit imposed — showily imposed — on Guantanamo. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
Althouse: Feeling the strain of that 1-year time limit imposed — showily imposed — on Guantanamo. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
And, dear Ann, the reason for the "showily imposed" deadline was to begin work on restoring America's good name around the world. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
The move was something of a carryover from his days as Interior minister, when he maintained a rocky relationship with the country's magistrates, showily and repeatedly questioning their judgment when a convict on conditional release re-offended. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Hamilton showily claims that the "Delta blues" was actually born in the 1940s in a Brooklyn YMCA room, where an eccentric record collector named James McCune educated a circle of acolytes to appreciate Patton, Johnson and others as "voices that were untainted by the modern world." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Why did McCain arrive showily, as if he was the man to close the deal, and then not do anything? ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
Why did McCain arrive showily, as if he was the man to close the deal ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
