There are also stretches of galumphing humor that go on too long.
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But more than graceless and galumphing — which it is - it also, crucially, feels random.
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But her galumphing howls also sound funny, too loud, faintly ridiculous, performative and self-flattering.
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But the Schubert was roundly defeated by numbers: overweight, opaque, positively galumphing in the Menuetto.
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Another way in which people's carbon footprints become especially galumphing is through air travel, notably in first class.
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When I opened the gate, they breezed straight past Sherman and into the stalls with Lawrence galumphing along behind.
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Lovell is a hearty, galumphing Briton of good pedigree and even better connections who once worked in corporate finance in New York.
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But what if the laws of physics do change over time and in different locations, and we're just too galumphing to perceive it?
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Ms. Hoffman is portraying Princess Winnifred (Fred to her friends), a galumphing fairy-tale princess who doesn't know her own strength, or lung power.
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The second film, galumphing along in the footsteps of the first, divides its time between past and present, and between characters old and new.
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But the talking points live on, delivered by the Mayberry Ministry of Truth, the sad, galumphing remnants of the conservative paradigm established under Reagan.
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What seems like mere table-setting — Eddy galumphing among the gazelles — is a sly declaration of intent in a happily self-conscious feature-length goof.
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If anything, it's the way in which Torque utilizes music that heightens the absurdity and implausibility of this compulsory marriage of overproduced B-movies with galumphing hard rock.
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In 1003, a team led by Dr. Freedman reported a value of 2100 kilometers per second per megaparsec (about 21 million lightyears), in the galumphing units astronomers prefer.
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ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, MARCH 4 Let one moment stand for many in this orchestra's Carnegie Hall concert: the galumphing start of the Allegretto of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.
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With advances in A.I. and engineering, robots, no longer mere grinds in factories, are galumphing, rolling, and being U.P.S.-delivered into our homes, hotels, hospitals, airports, malls, and eateries.
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The theory, if true, offered a stunning unification of the very large and the very small — of the random subatomic realm and the galumphing, space-bending world of Einstein.
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The galumphing digital elephants crashing through the hectic, murky opening of "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" are an early sign that this isn't meant to be your granddad's Arthurian legend.
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It limits the car's swaying to the level you get in a DB11, but allows for the extra wheel travel that makes galumphing along a pitted road an acceptably comfy experience.
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I could really use my body in a way that I felt was theatrical: you can stoop, you can be big, you can be galumphing, you can be nineteen-thirties and elegant.
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Muscle-bound and blandly handsome, White absolutely looks the part of the lacrosse-playing lummox galumphing around a college campus (one character later refers to his type as "basic white boys with pink dicks").
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He's eager to share the fantastic elements of his life with someone who's not galumphing around in search of vulnerable children to scarf down; she's curious and kind, earnestly interested in every strange thing he has to say.
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Dreamboat even showed off the wheels by galumphing for three first downs, which is so out of character he might as well have charmed his way downfield by acting like a normal person for the first time in his life.
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He attempts to revive his career by writing a memoir, which he only completes by hiring a sardonic co-writer, a human woman named Diane Nguyen (Alison Brie), married to a galumphing, ever-optimistic Labrador named Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tomkins).
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It creates intimacy, almost a little conspiracy between you and her, so when she starts chatting about Roger (John Lithgow, galumphing with verve), including his history advising Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, you lean in and listen.
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" In her 2006–07 New York Times column–turned–book, The Principles of Uncertainty, Kalman opens with a painting of a "HaPLess" dodo that was once "gaLumphing iNNocently aRound" until man came into the picture "with a haNKeRiNg FoR a Dodo SANdwich and POOF!
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According to Vicky Kalogera of Northwestern University, there are two contenders right now: Earlier in the universe, stars lacking elements heavier than helium could have grown to galumphing sizes and then collapsed straight into black holes without the fireworks of a supernova explosion, the method by which other stars say goodbye.
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Riccardo Giacconi, an astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering the study of the universe through the X-rays emitted by the most violent actors in the cosmos, including black holes, exploding stars and galumphing clouds of galaxies, died on Sunday in the La Jolla section of San Diego.
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When I think of Katharine Hepburn's Jo, in George Cukor's delectable "Little Women" of 1933, what I remember is not her chatter, as raucous as a raven, but her impromptu fencing match in a drawing room, or the galumphing rumpus she makes when, at her mother's call, she clatters down the stairs.
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In Fraggle Rock's attractively designed and well-thought-out universe, the fun-loving title characters and their Doozer helpers live in a network of caves, nestled between the kingdom of the enormous, galumphing Gorgs and the workshop of a human tinkerer named Doc (and his super cute dog, Sprocket, an astonishingly realistic Muppet creation).
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The characters are perfunctory; their actions are described in galumphing style ("Hector MacQueen leaned forward interestedly"); the ethnic stereotyping is an embarrassment ("A big, swarthy Italian was picking his teeth with gusto"); and the Queen of Crime, as she is worshipfully known, cannot resist slipping into breathless italics at the prospect of something significant ( "Neatly folded on the top of the case was a thin scarlet silk kimono embroidered with dragons" ).
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Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle".
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And you look like a galumphing big baby in that fluffy baby suit, he thought cussedly to himself.
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Also they were not able to stand upright or walk as the legs attached far at the back and sideways, with even the lower leg being tightly attached to the body. Thus, they were limited to sliding on their belly or galumphing.
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One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker- > snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. As with much of the poem's vocabulary, the reader is left to guess at the meaning of "vorpal" from the context.
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Free jazz and free improvisation, p.250. . "His principal tool is his 'no-input' mixing board used to create feedback and tiny electronic sounds that are amplified tremendously." Nakamura's music has been described as "sounds ranging from piercing high tones and shimmering whistles to galumphing, crackle-spattered bass patterns." Nakamura founded the ensemble A Paragon of Beauty in 1992.
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Daphne is repeatedly described as plain or large or unattractive or, in her own words, "galumphing". She is a bespectacled tomboy who has, as a result of the war, lost both her parents and her brother. Her closest living relative is her great-aunt, Ethel Manners, who lives in India. So, she goes to live in India.
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Following Greville's death, Queen Elizabeth, who inherited the bulk of Greville's huge collection of jewellery, described her as "so shrewd, so kind and so amusingly unkind, so sharp, such fun, so naughty; altogether a real person, a character, utterly Mrs Ronald Greville". By contrast, Sir Cecil Beaton described her as "a galumphing, greedy, snobbish old toad who watered at her chops at the sight of royalty ... and did nothing for anybody except the rich".
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In Adams, Douglas > (1988) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Pocket Books p65 Some of the words that Carroll created, such as "chortled" and "galumphing", have entered the English language and are listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. The word "jabberwocky" itself has come to refer to nonsense language. In American Sign Language, Eric Malzkuhn invented the sign for "chortled" and it subsequently, and unintentionally, caught on and became a part of American Sign Language's lexicon as well.
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PRIMUS comes jammin' back "wipes away memories of 1997's aptly titled, flat-sounding "Brown Album." The San Diego Union, October 14, 1999. Retrieved March 1 2013. Tom Moon, for Rolling Stone, describes Brown Album as "precisely the type of weirdness that Primus have been peddling for years – progressive-rock instrumentals camouflaged in the tattered rags of punk and the absurdist narratives of a junior Zappa", although he notes that the songs "all wind up sounding the same... Galumphing processionals more notable for their robotic persistence than for their musical invention.
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" Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times called the piece "terrific" and observed, "As the creation saga unfolds, the music is at once reverent and playful. Galumphing basses and low brass evoke the creatures of the land, while twittering flutes and crazed piccolo announce the creatures of the sky. Long episodes evolve in arcs of brilliant piano writing where restless, filigreed, spiraling figures cascade down the keyboard." He added: George Hall of The Guardian opined, "Adès possesses the gift of producing striking and immediate ideas that are nevertheless subtly ambiguous in their impact.
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Listing israel-opera.co.il, retrieved August 18, 2010 In a review of his work Super Straight is coming down by the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 1989, the reviewer wrote that it is a "coldly tormented work", and that "Ezralow has put his own manic stamp on the piece--the headlong barrel turns, the galumphing leaps, the desperate floor rolls--and has potently contrasted such excesses with moments of sullen stillness."Curtis, Cathy."Music and Dance Reviews Ezralow Work Premieres"Los Angeles Times, February 13, 1989 His works for opera include The Flying Dutchman, for the Los Angeles and Houston Opera Companies, Maggio Musicale’s Aida with Zubin Mehta as conductor, and the Paris Opera Ballet.
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