There they stand, head and shoulders above all others, some aggressive and pushy, others large and showy. |
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The interior is very smart, not too fussy or full of showy gadgets or dials. |
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White trilliums are also known as large-flowered trilliums, snow trilliums, showy trilliums, grand trilliums, and white wake-robins. |
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She seems quiet and reserved, carefully fingering the showy flowers with a wistful air of abstraction, lost in her own thoughts. |
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She eyed him surreptitiously, noting the oddly showy silver watch chain peeking from his waistcoat pocket. |
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Wildflowers include miner's lettuce, lacepod, a buttercup, and the showy fiesta flower. |
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The large, showy flowers are actinomorphic, with a bowl-shaped corolla made up of 5-8 pinkish-red petals. |
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All dainty and showy apparel is forbidden by the state of the atmosphere, and equally so is delicate upholstery within doors. |
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I noticed he was dressed in formality that night, forgoing his wonted loud, showy colors I normally saw him in. |
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They also look very showy planted in front of evergreen shrubs such as hollies, viburnums or ligustrums. |
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Even the gang members are perfect, sipping beers in their cheap, showy suits against a background teeming with transients and bums. |
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And then there are the usual green plants with red berries such as hollies and barberry, and old garden roses with showy hips. |
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Gloxinias are perfect pot plants as both their foliage and colorful blossoms are exceptionally showy. |
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It is not a noisy and showy beggarliness, nor is it a mask for laziness and neglect. |
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Rotate showy plants, such as orchids, begonias, and bromeliads, into your garden for color all year. |
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Jimmy Carter was not a flashy or showy President, but history judges him as one of America's greatest. |
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I started using perennials and color bowls to add a vibrant rainbow of showy flowers. |
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The Spanish press comments that she rarely wears jewels, preferring showy costume earrings, necklaces and trinkets. |
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It seems an excessively showy, very nearly butler-ish display of reticence on everyone's part. |
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A variety popular because of its distinctive salmon pink colour is Marcus Graham, which features large, showy double flowers. |
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Bloomington is one of the archetypal college towns in the United States, from the gorgeous campus to the showy liberal politics. |
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In my experience, treats from the sushi bar at Sakura tend to be nice, fresh, and reliable, if not particularly showy or ethereal. |
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Walking along a river's bend your eye is drawn to a rather large tree with showy white flowers. |
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The design was simple and effective, neither being too flashy nor showy, proving the point that sometimes less is more. |
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Extravagantly showy and ostentatious work is pretentious when the merit it demands is unjustified. |
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Their showy flower clusters appear with the onset of warm weather and generally bloom all summer long. |
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The judges are looking for snaps and big cutbacks, all the showy point-scoring maneuvers of professional surfing today. |
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It's yellow-green really because the plants are flowering now, but they're not showy flowers. |
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It produces showy, tubular flowers in summer and is able to set seed if pollinators are available. |
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This is mondo cool because the package comes packed in dry ice and it's a very showy gift. |
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The white, pink, red and bi-colored blooms are showy against the dense evergreen shrubs. |
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As I watch, a humming bird stops in midair and turns its attention to the wooly bluecurls and the showy penstemon. |
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A showy grass known as foxtail barley was common along the highway, while here and there we saw bogs dominated by black spruce and larch. |
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Her role here is just as brassy and showy, although it doesn't feature any singing. |
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Big, beautiful showy flowers have a tranquil effect that soothes you at the end of a long day. |
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He is the hyper-active dynamo in a very strong cast, giving a showy performance full of camp malice. |
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The fruits of the showy stickseed are spurred and covered with stout hairs that cling to the hair and bodies of animal. |
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This showy snailfish lacks the purple stripes displayed by other specimens. |
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The funeral is a showy affair, and its orchestrations are designed mainly for the benefit of the townspeople. |
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Other shrubs with showy berries include viburnum species, firethorn, Aucuba japonica, barberry, cotoneaster, chokeberry and Skimmia japonica. |
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It is music of absolute integrity, always sensitive to the tiniest musical gesture, and never showy or pandering to fashion. |
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A showy group of perennials are the hellebores, which can be planted to bloom from around Christmastime to spring. |
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Acalypha wilkesiana, the Fijian fire plant, is the parent of many modern cultivars and is in itself a showy ornamental. |
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It is not only the new hotel's showy flagship bar, but a fine, if pricey, post-work cocktail lounge in its own right. |
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The viewer's attention repeatedly returns to the paintings' facture, which is always on display but never showy. |
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Phacelia is a genus made up of about 150 species, It is well represented in our mountains where several phacelias are quite showy plants. |
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So spare me your showy concern for sensitivity by using the appropriate phraseology. |
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He seems to have inserted an inordinate amount of showy dancing to please the cosmopolitan Viennese audience. |
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This is a showy specimen, well crystallized on both sides, with perfect, clear Quartz and green Pistacite. |
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And so they didn't seem showy and insubstantial, they seemed like real thoughts that had a particular weight. |
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A swarm of mafic igneous dikes have intruded the Estes pegmatite and make a showy display in the quarry face. |
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Other floral delights along the trail include spotted coralroot orchids, twisted stalk, fireweed, and showy asters. |
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It starts blooming in midsummer with huge panicles of showy, white florets surrounding smaller fertile flowers. |
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They are indigenous evergreen shrubs with large showy flower heads prized by florists and plant collectors all over the world. |
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Though you might not guess it by looking at them, they are flowering plants, producing numerous tiny flowers without showy petals. |
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The native four-o'clock, also known as showy four-o'clock, is a great plant to add to your dryland Garden. |
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Once he began to waltz with Katie, these clothes seemed fussy, embarrassingly showy. |
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Their song is not overly musical but has a comforting, undemonstrative British garden nature, not gaudy or showy in any way. |
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This is despite a large, showy floral display and the dichogamous system of the species. |
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Vines such as the showy rangoon creeper and the unusual Dutchman's pipe offer months of blooms, but these might prove too vigorous. |
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The showy accoutrements of state power have replaced the vestments of resistance. |
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The many flowers are formed on a long pendulous spike and are very showy. |
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So it's usually a success if you can see that it's sort of not a showy restaurant, and you feel like someone wants to sit across the table and enjoy dinner with you. |
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Paranephelius is composed of acaulescent herbs with showy, yellow capitula, sessile in the center of a basal rosette of leaves, often with bullate leaf surfaces. |
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The males are bright and showy while the hens are conservatively dressed. |
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In bad jazz bands, everybody gets to step forward and do a showy solo. |
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Green darners are large, showy dragonflies with silvery iridescent wings. |
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The flowers of the Christmas rose are characterized by a showy, white or rose, perianth whose, usually five, elements are mostly classified as sepals. |
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Their weakness, if any, is that they fall easy prey to brand names and they would willingly go to any lengths just to be showy, extravagant and ostentatious. |
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Representing the tour was H. Bartow Farr III, who is 56, looks 10 years younger, speaks carefully without being showy, and with a reedy tone in his voice. |
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The huge flowers are very showy with laciniated or fringed edges. |
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Anthemis, Michaelmas daisies, heleniums, shasta daisies and rudbeckias all have a longer and more showy flowering period if rejuvenated from year to year. |
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If only about 60 percent of the better stems are staked with canes and the other lateral shoots removed through disbudding, the plant forms bigger, and more showy flowers. |
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But that category is full of showy performances, and George is not the showboating role in that play. |
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The category gives actors the chance to do showy, attention-grabbing work, stepping into ready-made characters. |
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And yet, many of her sentences struck me as showy, or straining toward cleverness. |
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They range from kitsch Tyrolean examples, complete with ornate synthetic roof tiles and balustraded balconies, to far less showy Scandinavian-style laminated timber homes. |
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There is nothing showy about the place, but therein lies its charm. |
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The primary reason for not designating critical habitat for showy stickseed is because the species has been repeatedly collected for many decades. |
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As its name depicts, these carnations are very showy when planted as part of a mixed flower border or as colorful edgings against evergreen shrubs. |
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Now, it's not like the sound has changed that much, but this album certainly is flowerier, more baroque, more self-consciously showy than anything they've done so far. |
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Every one of these materials and creatures bears the mark of anthropogenic selection, from cotton bred for large bolls to flowers selected for their showy display. |
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There is nothing more showy in a spring garden than Polyanthus primroses. |
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Its blossoms, on bare branches, are showy and often fragrant. |
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Pulsatilla, the pasque flower, is a real stunner with showy lilac flowers and you'll find an excellent specimen at Glasnevin in the Sensory Garden. |
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She displayed easy grace, never attempting to be over showy, but also never trying to make the piano part more ' Sturm und Drang ' than it really is. |
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Some gardeners bemoan showy colchicum's handsome, foot-long, leek-like foliage, which mantles the ground in spring before withering indecorously in early summer. |
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There are countless examples of singer Eddie's bright, showy wit, and mini-tunes galore on an album which clocks in at a pleasing forty minutes or so. |
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As far a cross-trainers are concerned, there are four models available, all characterized by decisive and showy styling accented by a richly-detailed vamp. |
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The showy part of the flower is not the corolla but the modified calyx. |
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Jacamars prefer to eat large, showy, flying insects such as blue morpho butterflies, hawk moths, and venomous insects such as wasps, ants, and sawflies. |
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Popular Kenyan music usually involves the interplay of multiple parts, and more recently, showy guitar solos as well. |
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This showy plant is the first with scented blooms to be found among New World members of the genus Erythronium. |
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The style of no style has to look designerless. No self to express, no showy demonstration of technical craft or expertise. |
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From mid-April into early May, jack-in-the-pulpit, showy orchis, and expanses of phacelia are among the most breathtaking bloomers. |
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In addition, the surrounding forest supports showy wildflowers, such as the pink lady's slipper. |
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In New Guinea, mountain hunters target the black sicklebill and birds of paradise, which are prized both for their showy feathers and as food. |
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Parts of the world that have showy displays of bright autumn colors are limited to locations where days become short and nights are cool. |
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All the species have yellow flowers, generally showy, some with a very long flowering season. |
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The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red yellow or white. |
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There is nothing showy in her pianism, nothing cloying about her expressivity. |
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Some elements disdained the aesthetes, but their languishing attitudes and showy costumes became a recognised pose. |
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This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction. |
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And for dot plants choose tall and showy flowers or foliage to break up block planting such as standard fuchsia, kochia, abutilon and canna. |
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The big hybrid abutilons are showy and cheerful with their vine-shaped leaves and glossy bell-like flowers. |
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If you want big, showy species, go for the cymbidiums, which are best in a sun lounge or conservatory. |
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Recognized for his beneficent and yet humble and modest style of leadership, not showy and egocentrically vociferous. |
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The showy blooms are soon followed by conspicuous fruits, which have the appearance of yellowish, bladderlike pods. |
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The huge, showy double and semidouble flowers are real eye-catchers, bloom all summer and need little attention. |
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You can find anything from the small discreet varieties to the showy chanterelles and boletes. |
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Sparaxis are widely available and are bright and showy and the Romuleas are like brightly-coloured crocuses. |
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Over the last 130 million years or so, flowers have evolved from pollen-making pipsqueaks about a millimeter across to include blossoms that are large, showy and fragrant. |
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Sullivan was not a showy conductor, and some thought him dull and old fashioned on the podium, but his composition had an enthusiastic reception and was frequently revived. |
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A man with a showy carriage and horses is said to have a fine turn-out. |
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The redbud variety Hearts of Gold is an exquisitely showy ornamental tree. |
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Showy Stickseed Fewer than 150 individuals of this showy wildflower, the rarest plant in Washington, are known to exist at a single location in Chelan County. |
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Showy Stickseed Fewer than 150 individuals of this showy wild-flower, the rarest plant in Washington, are known to exist at a single location in Chelan County. |
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Most colchicums produce large showy flowers before the leaves emerge, the flowers at their best in autumn sunshine, opening as large, graceful goblets. |
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Garcia is suitably showy as the new kid on the block, but Robert Duval as the consiglieri is much-missed, particularly as he's replaced by George Hamilton. |
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Indeed, flowers with eight petals are rare in the plant kingdom and plant species with showy, octopetalous flowers of the Ur type are unknown in Middle Eastern flora. |
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The staminate inflorescences are large, showy, loose, axillary, cymose panicles, while the pistillate ones are small, obscure, congested, axillary, spicate cymes. |
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