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Fanning’s near-translucent skin—a character in and of itself, framed in those 18th-century gowns—flushes red with excitement and her eyes go starry with conviction as she tries to get a general in the army to support her coup by selling him on freedom and rights.

From Slate

The US version was particularly starry, with Gladys Knight, Donny Osmond and Ricki Lake eventually unveiled as the mystery voices beneath the masks.

From BBC

The crowds are healthy in this golf-crazed town, and the field starry with nearly half of the top 20 in the world ranking, including Rickie Fowler and Jason Day, as well as Phil Mickelson.

We lean into each other, starry with the song and the dusk and the delight of this time.

From Salon

I listen close, and presently a hollow rumbling sound indicates that I was right; and now I hear the strokes more faintly—he is climbing the hill that slopes directly away from me; but now again I hear distinctly—he has almost reached the hollow below me—the hollow that in summer is starry with dandelions and now is full of brown nettles and withered weeds—he will presently have passed—where can he be going, and what is his errand?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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