windiness in a sentence
Examples
- Angry travelers get " pretty passionate, " in the opinion of Denise Harvill, director of consumer relations at United, but this passion should not evidence itself in windiness or hyperbole.
- "Here today you feel more than the pope's windiness, " he joked after he took off his skull cap because of the frigid gusts in the courtyard of the villa, about 25 kilometers ( 15 miles ) southeast of Rome.
- But the characters, although acted with flashy intensity, remain mouthpieces of a Shavian windiness . ( Smoothly articulate even at their most frenzied, they say things like, " Back off and find another place to direct that indicting stare of yours . ")
- Though he's particularly engaging with the early stages of Cayce's life, grounded in the hardships of farm life and the failings of Edgar's whiskey-drinking father, Kirkpatrick gets caught up in the ethereal windiness of the adult prophet's celestial pronouncements.
- Some of the most amusing etymologies are found in the chapter on foods associated with religion and the supernatural _ from the simon-pure angel food cake, to nun's tummies ( a sweet egg pudding from Portugal that presumably added to the abbess'avoirdupois ) to pumpernickel, said to produce a windiness worthy of St . Nick himself.