curlicue
Example Sentences
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Basgallop dresses up basic horror premises with curlicues of mordant, deadpan humor, and creates an ambient pea soup of unease that, for his well-employed but economically insecure young characters, constitutes a reign of terror.
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Their lavish curlicue lettering echoed, robustly, that of Warhol’s advertising work of the 1950s; their style often evoked German Expressionism by way of underground comics.
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Exuberantly curlicue and pale green, they are the fresh stems of hardneck garlic varieties.
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Over a jazzy backbeat, a serene bass vamp, methodical piano chords and stealthy guitar curlicues, Thomas sings with otherworldly patience about longings, immensities and unanswered questions.
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Broad, gestural curlicues offer haptic echoes of the artist’s motions, but there are also harder angles hiding in there, particularly in trickling, horizontal gashes the color of a blood orange.
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