Monday, September 10, 2012

Primrose

Primrose
Pale yellow.



Sample Sentences

  • The thoughts circling Sarah's head kept time with the rhythm of her spoon as she stirred the pale- primrose  mixture of egg yolks and cream in the pan.
  • The room was high and white and primrose  gold, flanked by Greek columns that caught the lickety amber light of a thousand candles.



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For it's usage, primrose is mainly used as an adjective for pale yellow pigments of color. Such as primrose plants which are a beautiful pale yellow. For many of the uses of primrose when searching around on Google, one will find that primrose is associated with happiness. Towns, schools, etc. are all named after primrose, and even clicking on the links to any of those listed is a scene of brightness and a scene of warmth. To me, just the sound of the name primrose has a light, hearty ringtone to it.



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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Fatuous

FATUOUS

foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacentmanner; silly; unreal; illusory.







Sample Sentences

  • In all ages, indeed, grammarians appear to have been fatuous.
  • Henry's portentous musings on the futility of war seem fatuous beside his clear-eyed account of how war looks.



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In the above Interview, fatuous is used when speaking about one of the commentators comments. This happened when Morgan stated that Toure had "a load of fatuous nonsense". Toure had made this remark beforehand "You are too new to the situation to fully understand what's going on here, and what's really at stake for America." Morgan and Toure were arguing about the Trayvon Martin case. 


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