headily

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Boldly flavored and headily spiced with just cinnamon, cloves, black pepper and, yes, a lot of fresh ginger, it is simplicity exemplified, coming together quickly and without a mixer.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

“I was just bored/ Playing the guitar/ Learned all your tricks/ Wasn’t too hard,” he sneers, as the band headily mix swagger and sentimentality.

From The Guardian • Apr. 11, 2020

In the headily abstract terms by which he functioned, his career can be defined as just that.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019

Each day’s entry in Julavits’s exquisite diary pitches recklessly and headily into the essay it will become, a meditation on desire, perhaps, or ghosts, or time.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2015

What vine-outquickening life all creatures sup, Feel, for the air within its sapphire cup How it does leap, and twinkle headily!

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis