fustiness

But this exaggerated fustiness has always been combined with a contrasting modernity.

Shaking his head to clear the fustiness he noticed a fat arm around his waist.

Philological fustiness, I suppose; the is not followed by a , and that troubled my soul.

And that's where our boomer-age fustiness peeks through.

The city continually walks a fine line between the past and present, between fustiness and heedlessness.

Mr. Pearl strives all too successfully to echo the fustiness of that classic prose.

A sour fustiness pervaded the dingy room.

Wenge Musica delivers an old-fashioned rumba richness without fustiness.

The cul de sac itself reeked of dirt and fustiness, as if it had not been cleaned or ventilated for years.

In an age of word-bombing, clean language becomes a more powerful tool to make a statement - of grace, calm, femininity or fustiness, you pick.

Despite the fustiness of the original displays, these now convincingly document unlikely scenes, like Napoleon's deathbed, or an underwater landscape from the Devonian period.

Perhaps for that reason, the choking fustiness that characterized the taste of the age became associated with the female - the maternal, unsexual female, that is.

Indians visiting Pakistan are often envious of the country's airlines, hotels and telephones, which rarely show the fustiness and inefficiency that define life in India.

Here Victorian fustiness is exchanged for sleek, modern design and the black walls of its Earth Hall are lined with crystals, gems and precious rocks.

Mr. Weidner and his designer, John Conklin, have begun by sweeping the stage of memories and of any lingering fustiness.

These days, the once elegant oak-paneled dining room feels a little the worse for wear, and the dolls, music boxes and other tchotchkes strewn about convey a Victorian fustiness.

It noted the faded fustiness of death from the many skeletons, and the drying sweat of his comrades spiced with hints of their precious superhuman hormonal secretions.

This 18th-century farmhouse, a timeworn sentinel here on the northernmost Westchester-Fairfield route, certainly showed its years - paint and plaster peeling, floors creaking and complaining, fustiness rising with every footstep.

With its citrus symbolism, it is a nod to Blumenthal's new paymaster, the Mandarin Group - edible advertising, but also a sign that hotel dining has left fustiness and folderol behind and become fun.

Some habitues may mourn the lost fustiness, but most will applaud the decisiveness with which the museum's executive director, John Clark, and its curator of art, Nancy Hall Duncan, have dragged it into the late 20th century.

Mr. Balladur, a patrician 65-year-old functionary who wears suits tailored in London and occasionally wears red socks made in Rome for cardinals, is fighting an image of fustiness by surrounding himself with young people at campaign rallies.

First comes the hippy California dad - long hair, screechy kids, lots of sunny white light; then the awkward writer, all tweedy fustiness with a sepia tint; and finally the designer, dressed in requisite black geek glasses and cool blue tones.

As old-money power has eroded, the book that enshrines its members has taken on a positively quaint air, a fustiness conveyed by the attention to the details of members' alma maters and club affiliations, outmoded talismans of standing in a meritocratic age.

The EU now also requires extra virgin oil to pass assorted taste and aroma tests, assessed by panels of experts: the oil has to be suitably fruity, bitter and peppery, and cannot display any of 16 different defects, including "grubbiness", "mustiness" and "fustiness".