Example Sentences

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There is much to enjoy in this book: it is racily picaresque, energetic and clever.

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2013

A racily conversational prose-puncher, a "critic" who makes you stop, look & listen by the amusing mock-violence of her own irrelevant reactions, Mrs. Parker has written, in Laments for the Living, some first-rate dialogs.

From Time Magazine Archive

On this axis the play, now whimsically, now racily, now sentimentally, keeps turning throughout many scenes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Written in Author Seabrook's usual man-to-mannish style, The White Monk of Timbuctoo is a racily sympathetic account of an unusual career.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is upon topics of this unpromising kind, and from the very effort, perhaps, to dignity and enliven them, that the peculiar characteristics of an orator are sometimes most racily brought out.

From Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Moore, Thomas