floridity

It quickly lent itself to floridity of style.

But there are worse sins than floridity.

Vocal virtuosity has changed since the 18th century: her singing sometimes confused floridity with frenzy.

"He's a master of the stemwinder without the floridity of the old Senator Claghorn school," he said.

The floridity sometimes threatens to suffocate the music, but with some restraint, Mr. Butler could be formidable.

I could hear it all in Powl's voice, for every nuance echoed my teacher's own floridity when speaking in that florid tongue.

Most of the Ars Musica cast was not equal to this Rossinian floridity, but the singers worked valiantly and sometimes to good effect.

The diversity of style, the floridity of expressions and the varied nuances rather suits him because he writes 'to transgress art to reach the art beyond'.

But in their duets - songs of romantic devotion, with solo verses and harmony choruses - they interlocked just right, her smoothness cushioning his floridity.

Tossed by successive waves of floridity and biliousness, "Food of Love," which opens today in Manhattan, finally washes up on the shores of camp.

Where Powell's intensity expressed itself through floridity and lightning-fast melodic decisions made at high speed, Monk's expressed itself through the use of space and suspense.

The lamplight did not betray the floridity caused by prolonged, excessive drinking, or the scars left by the pustules from a disease picked up in Brothe's sporting houses.

In "Tokpela," William Trigg's virtuoso whackings and poundings had the floridity and extremes - and inevitably the longeurs - of old-time political oratory.

While Mr. Rebennack learned about the blues from Mr. Vann Walls, he proudly carries on the extravagant syncopations and joyful floridity of Professor Longhair.

It is similar to the cengkok of other elaborating instruments in its floridity and openness to improvisation, but a sekaran generally happens only at the end of a nongan or other colotomic division.

I suggest one before any important dinner, and not more than one before you've got something in your stomach; the Negroni's inviting embrace quickly becomes a bearhug, as the mix's floridity masks a devious potency.

Mr. McLean, who started his career as a disciple of Charlie Parker, quickly changed his style, throwing out be-bop's floridity and putting together entire solos out of distilled be-bop lines.

Technical feats can be convincing metaphors for passion and transcendence, especially in gospel-based music, but vocal range, power and floridity can also be flaunted idly and are useless as ends in themselves.

Howard wrote them in a personalized style that is very post-heroic, is very much a part of a twentieth-century literary tradition which eschews the floridity, gallantry and nobleness of cause associated with the epic.

A fifth chanson, no longer ascribed to Chardon, Li departirs de la douce contree, is notable for the simplicity of its melody compared to the "floridity" of that of Rose ne lis.

Writing in a style more concerned with floridity than dramatic or comic awareness, Edwin Justus Mayer, an American playwright, reproduced, with considerable verbal facility, early 18th-century decadence and duplicity among London's incarcerated elite.

Musica Antiqua Koln, which played at the Metropolitan Museum on Sunday evening, turned its back on the virtuosic Baroque floridity represented by Handel's Senesino arias in favor of music that looked ahead.

Then I scoff at the floridity and absurdity of some scrolloping tomb; and the trumpets and the victories and die coats of arms and die certainty, so sonorously repeated, of resurrection, of eternal life.

A contemporary of Mahalia Jackson, Ms. Griffin leans toward stately hymn tunes that she sings in bountiful sustained notes, her voice rising above rippling, sustained chords; her singing is sure and triumphant, without undue floridity.

The range and floridity of Leila's arias posed no real obstacles for her, and if her beautifully floated high notes were not enough to make one thank Providence that Bizet turned his hand to this drivel, they were at least bright points in the performance.