rabelaisian造句

• Fox is paying John Madden, football's manic Rabelaisian wit, a total of $ 30 million for four years, making him the highest paid man, on the field or behind a microphone, in the sport.
• The life of Rivera, a Rabelaisian omnivore, was a legend wrapped in scandal surrounded by myth that played against the backdrop of brightly colored buildings, as if he were a figure walking through one of his own heroic canvases.
• In an op-ed article for The New York Times, he dismissed the charges and Thomas'alleged " Rabelaisian humor " with Ms . Hill as merely examples of a " down-home style of courting ."
• But most of all he celebrates the " splendor and mystery of dirty words " by using them and, more generally, by colorfully, waggishly flaunting a Rabelaisian, Marquis de Sadeian barroom wit's defiance of the conventions of politeness.
• Giving evidence at the trial, one of the defendants said of Crumb : " He is the most outstanding, certainly the most interesting, artist to appear from the underground, and this ( Dirty Dog ) is Rabelaisian satire of a very high order.
• Ladan's only novel, " Bosanski grb " ( " Bosnian coat of arms " ) ( 1975 ) is a postmodernist fiction written as a combination of Rabelaisian linguistic feast and a treatise on the historical destiny of Croats in central Bosnia.
• They offer a vivid glimpse of an artist seemingly in love with the absurd, the excessive, the Rabelaisian; whose instinctive inventiveness with materials meshed with a penchant for the theatrical and a conviction that distinctions between media are " a civilized disease ."
• Outfitted in Astro-turf colored knickers, Cullum's Don Garcia isn't a Moliere-style cynic, but an exuberant aristocrat carried away by artistic flights of fancy that lead him to recount Rabelaisian banquets and swashbuckling exploits that occur only in his mind.
• Varying degrees of gluttony have been ascribed to that last supper, but some accounts imagine the king's arrest as a classic Rabelaisian quarter-hour : as the check is presented, and the portrait on the money is seen to bear a close resemblance to the corpulent diner.
• "' The Medicine Man'is a first-rate sample of what some people have called [ Caldwell's ] Rabelaisian humor, although it is really pornography with a horse laugh . " ( Carl Bode, " Erskine Caldwell : A Note for the Negative " ()