purvey
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Only the aptly gaudy costumes by Susan Hilferty suggest the Ziegfeldian overabundance that shows like “Funny Girl” were designed to purvey.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2022
But the question is in the execution of these new plots, and specifically how ardently this spinoff will purvey a skewed image of justice’s inner workings, as is the tendency of Wolf’s other work.
From Salon • Sep. 5, 2018
Rather, I think that the very notion of the children’s movie is, too often, a coup of marketing that comes disguised in the very virtues that the movies purvey.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2017
The former are treated very well, because they purvey the ideas and analysis that fuel the think tank’s operations.
From Slate • Mar. 7, 2012
What spacious days his song recalls, When each monastic brotherhood Could brew, within its private walls, A vintage just as good As that which restaurants purvey As "rare old Tawny Port" to-day!
From Familiar Faces by Graham, Harry
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