gallimaufry造句

• For all his sense of humor, Lardner was a stickler for semantic accuracy and a master at solving crossword puzzles, which was hardly surprising for a man who once used a review in The New York Times to sum up a book by the humorist S . J . Perlman as " a gallimaufry of harrowing experiences ."
• Edinburgh people depend on it particularly for regular acquaintance with great musicians and for the challenge of innovation; visitors are likely to be attracted by festival vitality, by the place itself ( the gallimaufry of souvenir stores and student cafes in the ancient alleyways of the Old Town, the grand, gray classical terraces of the almost silent New ) and by Edinburgh specialties.
• The novel can be and has been many things, but one doubts it has ever been quite what we get in " The Robber Bridegroom " ( 1942 ) : a gallimaufry thrown together out of frontier brags, Yeatsian folk fantasy and shape-changers, fairy-tale love and adventure, the mock heroic and heroic mockery and high spirits, blended with comic undercutting at every turn.
• The period is early eighteenth century, and the research underlying the gallimaufry is thorough beyond the call of duty . " In response to some bad attention her novel received, which she said " hurt like hell, " Koen noted the persistence of " in-fighting " within the publishing industry . " Who reviews your book has a lot to do with the kind of review you get, " she said.
• These include the "'Prime Mover "', an immortal and omnipotent alien lifeform who has a deal with humanity to prevent their extinction, "'Ambassador Whreee "'of the Klegdixal, a paranoid and conniving alien race and oft-time political rival of humanity, "'Parahexavoctal "', chief of security of the entire Gallimaufry, and Buck's uncle and fellow Hoffmanite, "'Frakkus Godot " '.
• The second chapter of his only cricket book, " Cricket Calling ", a collection of essays published a few months before he died, is titled " The Essence of Cricket ", and opens with this sentence : " Cricket is not so much a game as an extension of being English : a gallimaufry of paradoxes, contradictions, frightening logic and sheer impossibilities, of gentle courtesy and rough violence . " In another chapter, " The Unplayable Jeeves ", Ryder recounts his correspondence with P . G . Wodehouse which established that Wodehouse had named his famous character Jeeves after the Warwickshire bowler Percy Jeeves, whom Wodehouse had seen playing in a county match at Cheltenham in 1913.