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She paints narrative fantasies that look bumptiously jokey at first, but reveal worlds of nuanced thought and feeling.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016

Grinning bumptiously, the young Governor plopped himself down between the President and Mr. Barkley in the official automobile.

From Time Magazine Archive

His new book is not so bumptiously funny as previous ones, but the author cannot resist a few energizing japes.

From Time Magazine Archive

After listening to its na�ve, childlike jingle themes, half-focused in a turbulent hubbub of flashy orchestration, Baltimoreans rated it one of the most bumptiously original pieces they had heard in a long time.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'm a famous runner," he added, a little bumptiously; "I'll be at the town in half an hour, and send a surgeon up full gallop."

From White Lies by Reade, Charles