... it was precisely that sort of legerdemain—tapping a dicey loan with the magic wand of financialization—which built the mortgage-securitization industry to begin with. Tad Friend, "Home Economics," The New Yorker, February 4, 2013
The city today stretches out along the flatlands by the Fyris River, then ripples up a glacial ridge, culminating in a massive sixteenth-century castle painted the color of a poached salmon—a bit of legerdemain by pigment that leavens the bulky fortress considerably. Emily Hiestand, "The Constant Gardener," The Atlantic, March 2007
... the degreening of leaves is a widely appreciated natural phenomenon, especially in autumn, when the foliage of deciduous trees turns into polychromatic beauty. S. Hörtensteiner and P. Matile, "How Leaves Turn Yellow: Catabolism of Chlorophyll," Plant Cell Death Processes, 2004
Throughout, Suzy Lee’s polychromatic illustrations astonish. Each page bursts with color. Carmela Ciuraru, "'A Dog Day,' 'Ask Me' and 'Sidewalk Flowers'," New York Times, July 10, 2015
Do you believe in love at first sight? The coup de foudre, the heart falling into the stomach, the moment when Cupid's arrow breaches the iron armor of even the hardest of hearts? Sally Christie, The Sisters of Versailles, 2015
I mean, the coup de foudre is wonderful--seeing someone for the first time across a room and just feeling this huge surge of necessity, the knowledge that you want to be with them. But it's not the only way. Increasingly I'm coming around to the view that the other kind is better. Simon Brett, Penultimate Chance Saloon, 2005
... Paul would want me to dandle his baby on my knee. There is a time to dandle, and a time to watch a limited amount of dandling from the comfort and security of a dry easy chair across the room. Gregory Mcdonald, Exits and Entrances, 1988
... I would like quiet, books to read, a wife to love me, and some children to dandle on my knee. William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians, 1858–59
In 1930, the U.S. Health Service clamped down on the importation of psittacine birds, other than a few permitted to research institutions, zoos, and private parrot fanciers returning from Europe with uninfected birds they had owned for at least six months. , "New Deal for Parrots," The New Yorker, February 2, 1952
Now the psittacine tribe can claim another brainy feat: tool use. Researchers at the University of York and the University of St. Andrews observed captive greater vasa parrots ... using date pits and pebbles to pulverize cockle shells. Michelle Z. Donahue, "14 Fun Facts About Parrots," Smithsonian, January 5, 2016
Though I, too, admired his Dictionary, his delightfully wrong-headed “Lives of the Poets” and his countless celebrated apothegms, I agree with Macaulay that he translated the English language into a “Johnsonese” dialect whose now deflated orotundities still disfigure public speaking and other such pious utterances. Anatole Broyard, "Books of the Times: The Man Behind the Myth," New York Times, February 8, 1973
He valued its uncluttered prose – its freedom from the Johnsonese and Gallicisms that had marred Burney’s late style. Thomas Keymer, "Too Many Pears," London Review of Books, August 27, 2015
The full enormity of this remark then dawned on me; it was at once a lie and a cruel aspersion on my mother, who would certainly have got me some lighter clothes had I not discouraged her. L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953
A notorious New York magazine profile this fall, which cast aspersions on Kaur’s reading habits and penchant for gold rings, showed its cards in the first paragraph ... Carl Wilson, "Why Rupi Kaur and Her Peers Are the Most Popular Poets in the World," New York Times, December 15, 2017