Word: fluff
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...Keb’s credit, however, his music keeps enough of the essential intelligence and emotion to power his songs beyond pop and easy listening radio’s usual fluff. His album is a successful version of blues for people who don’t like real blues...
...Sillery were a form of academic boot camp—rigorous, tiring, occasionally dispiriting, but highly beneficial in the long-run. Usually the papers she gave back were covered—and I mean covered—in green ink. She had essentially rewritten my essays, removing all the fluff and the pretentious (mixed) metaphors, leaving behind passable pieces of work. “Your writing suffers from adverbial overkill,” she explained. “And one day perhaps you’ll learn, as George Orwell once said, to ‘never use a long...
...University might have to cut fluff from the budget, but it shouldn’t deprive its students of fluff in the bathrooms...
...America) and partly based on his own childhood, the show is set in Louisiana in 1963 and focuses on the relationship between a black maid and the liberal Jewish family that employs her. At a time when musicals seem to be groping for ways to move beyond campy Broadway fluff without boring an audience to tears, Caroline is a breakthrough. It's a musical in an operatic style--Jeanine Tesori's score is almost entirely sung through--but with a story so grounded in the ordinary details of life in a specific place and time that it almost seems...
This morning, I stumbled down to breakfast bleary-eyed in a cozy maroon hoodie. Its fabric has that never-been-worn fluff to it that makes all new sweatshirts a joy to wear. But it’s more than the shirt’s fuzzy warmth that makes it cozy. This is no ordinary Harvard sweatshirt. It’s an HRO hoodie, and in wearing it, I affirm my complicated love for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...