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Most contestants opted for nontraditional formal-wear—Workman, clothed in denim shorts and a large black wig, was escorted down the aisle by a gorilla. Lowe chose to cavort down the steps in a glamorous drag costume, and McCambridge soared to the stage dressed as the Winthrop Superhero Mr. Incredible...

Author: By Anna M. Friedman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Currier Claims Mr. Harvard | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...carpet. We assemble, strollers and all, in front of a tableau of Pilgrim girls dancing devilishly in the woods. Except that they’re not moving. At all. They’re made of wax. Strange recorded laughter echoes from a visible boom box as the wax statues cavort as best they can in their stationary manner. After a reverent two seconds at this display, everyone moves on to a “kitchen,” which is equally poorly lit. From another speaker (concealed under a burlap bag) comes the sound of strange blubbering. The source...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Witching Sell | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

...temples feature friezes of intricately detailed aspects of daily life. Warriors prepare for battle, musicians tune their instruments and a dancer plucks a thorn from her foot. But it's the sex that put the temples on the tourist maps. Buxom apsaras, or celestial maidens, coyly cavort around the corners of each temple, flaunting their haunches, while meter-tall couples demonstrate their sexual prowess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...steps leading to the summit zig, zag, and turn in spirals, passing meditation cells, shrines and small shops selling everything from tourist trinkets to fragrant thanakha logs?from which Burmese women grind their traditional face powder. Monkeys cavort along the path?cute from a distance but downright terrifying when they bare their teeth and hiss. Be warned: while eating pork or cursing may offend the nats, a bag of cookies in your back pocket is a sure invitation to an attack by monkeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...East, though many of its gigs remain on the house band for the Dunster goat roast level. Nonetheless, the gentlemen of FFF continue their attempts to live the debauched rock star lifestyle, having purchased a house in which they rehearse, listen to music in a coma-like daze and cavort with females culled from the front row of their shows...

Author: By By EUGENIA B. schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FinkFankFunks Den of Worldly Pleasures | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

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