Example Sentences

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It’s no accident that their tensions seem to flare most openly in public, at events whose stiff formality brings out a defiant bluntness, even blowsiness, in Allison.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2020

It remains a Dickensian crime drama involving a long con, a lesbian awakening, and a series of whomping double-crosses, but the action is cleaner, with no Cockney blowsiness to cloud it.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2016