5 QUOTES WITH «FULSOME»
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fulsome.
Some people can sit and enjoy the view... some people like to take photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in some other way. I just have to somehow grasp it and take it home in a more fulsome way. It's where ideas come from.
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind.
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FULSOME»
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The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style
In American English, the variant pronunciations (fool'ma-nant) and (fool'ma-nat'),
with the first syllable like full, are more common. fulsome The word fulsome had
as its original meaning "copious, abundant," and this usage survives today, ...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005
2
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ...
Fulsome, et al. to enter the land, under the claim of a right of preemption, and
obtained a patent for the same. Upon this, in 1843, the administrator of Wilson,
who had in the mean time died, began a suit against Groves, on his bond for a
title, ...
Missouri. Supreme Court, William Barclay Napton, Samuel Mansfield Bay, 1853
3
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare
He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes9; Who, then conceiving, did in eaning
time Fall party-colour d lambs ', and those were Jacob's*. This was a way to thrive
a, and he was blest ; Again, in Drayton's Mooncalf: " nothing doth so please ...
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, 1821
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Quite Literally: Problem Words and how to Use Them
And we put on all sorts of airs and graces: we say things like actualite instead of
truth, commence instead of begin, reticent instead of reluctant - and our English
suffers as a result. fulsome can be used both positively (abundant, full) and ...
5
Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
fulsome | function achieve consistency within a particular piece of writing or
printing. Some shortenings have a greater need of full stops to avoid possible
ambiguity with other words in some contexts, e.g. am. (: ante meridiem), no. (:
number).
6
Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and ...
In 1868 someone used the expression this fulsome world and he followed it with
a note - 'I use the word fulsome in the original sense'. He was using the term in
the sense of 'abundantly good'. Writers around this time couldn't stop the
meaning ...
7
Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
fulsome diatribe, harangue, invective, railing, obloquy; denunciation,
condemnation, criticism, censure, attack, broadside, brickbats; formal excoriation;
literary philippic. fulsome adjective he paid fulsome tribute to his secretary:
excessive, ...
8
Steiner Trees in Industry
c a=b a=b=c long empty rectangle cross- corner- vertex '-vertex ver,ex head body
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Figure 1: Full rectilinear Steiner trees. legs (0 (g) An RSMT is
called fulsome if the sum of the degrees of terminals is maximized. It is easy to
see ...
Xiuzhen Cheng, Ding-Zhu Du, 2001
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A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses ...
io2 Fulsome. Enter LuJce, with slioes, garters, Jans, and roses. Gold. Here he
comes, sweating all over, He shows like a walking frippery. Massinger, The City
Madam, act i. sc. I. Hast thou foresworn all thy friends in the Old Jewry? or dost
thou ...
Richard Chenevix Trench, 1873
Fulsome, a word generally used now only of flattery or praise, in the sense of
gross, extravagantly overdone, is given by almost every dictionary as another
form of foul-some, from A. Sax. ful, foul, impure. It is probably, however, the same
word ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FULSOME»
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The 125th anniversary of the OC Fair links us to summers past
... and, of course, the musical duet of Prince Ludwig, the 31-inch-tall saxophonist and “Fulsome Nettie,” his 657-pound, humming accompaniest. «OCRegister, Jul 15»
Ashes 2015: Nasser Hussain felt England were close to perfection
Ian Botham was similarly fulsome in his praise of England, dismissing the suggestion that a below-par Australia performance was the cause of ... «SkySports, Jul 15»
England hammer Australia to take 1-0 lead
Ian Botham was similarly fulsome in his praise of England, dismissing the suggestion that a below-par Australia performance was the cause of ... «Dispatch Times, Jul 15»
Serena takes Wimbledon crown again
It was like, I really want to win Wimbledon. It happened. It feels really, really good." The world no.1 was fulsome in her praise of her opponent. «The Voice Online, Jul 15»
Henman: Good times ahead for Murray
Three-time Wimbledon finalist Roddick marvelled at Federer's fulsome serving statistics, hot off the heels of his record 116-game streak of ... «Sport.co.uk, Jul 15»
The GOP doesn't have a Donald Trump problem. It has an angry …
... through the generosity of the country's corporate bankruptcy laws (of which he's taken fulsome advantage on four separate occasions). «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
The Tribe, Marshland, I am Big Bird: Ukrainian film has sex, violence
... documentary about him by Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker is a little too fulsome in its praise for my taste. Still, there are fascinating insights ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
How to interpret the U.S. Supreme Court's MATS ruling
... found EPA's failure to consider costs "unreasonable," had the Court given credence to the more fulsome set of benefits set forth in the RIA. «Lexology, Jul 15»
Centre hikes allocation for rural development sector in Punjab
He assured Badal that NDA government would give fulsome support and cooperation to transform the rural scene in the state by providing the ... «mydigitalfc.com, Jul 15»
The Salter Version
The obituaries were fulsome. He was spoken of as a “writers' writer.” This was, I think, shorthand for the fact that many readers find his fiction ... «The Weekly Standard, Jul 15»
