From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
12 Dec. 2024
Serving guests, some of them still carousing from the previous evening out, was never enough.
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
19 July 2024
While capering around with her boss, Matty keeps looking for a private moment alone with Olympia’s luggage.
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
12 Dec. 2024
Chapman persuaded Ford Motor Co. to fulfill his V-8 engine requirements and built the first of what were to become revolutionary Lotus-Fords, pencil-thin cars that looked like spiders capering through the turns.
Some 500 of them cavorted at Frank Buck’s Jungle Camp on a humanmade structure called Monkey Mountain.
Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Dec. 2024
Thus Andy Dixon paints Day-Glo takes on Rococo romances, with sculptural nudes draped in loose tunics cavorting around pleasure gardens dotted with classical statuary; these same motifs are distilled into dainty arabesques and diaphanous whorls in the abstract canvases of Michaela Yearwood-Dan.
England romped home against the Caribbean side and the Sri Lankans this summer at home.
Tim Ellis,
Forbes,
12 Dec. 2024
Max Verstappen has romped to four consecutive drivers’ titles, his latest confirmed with a fifth-place finish at last week’s race in Las Vegas, while the Dutchman’s Red Bull team has captured the previous two constructors’ titles.
The new brand’s packaging and visual identity – created by Mexican artist Francisco Herrera and featuring a winged spider monkey — evokes Kahlo’s exotic style, as well as her love of these monkeys, which once gamboled around her garden.
Joan Oleck,
Forbes,
12 Dec. 2024
Those endless summer days spent watching Messi gambol around the football pitches of our souls?
The lawyer also stated that the women were restrained and frisked by male officers, even though female officers were present.
Jose R. Gonzalez,
The Arizona Republic,
2 Nov. 2024
British soldiers, brought in to suppress a Catholic civil-rights movement, ran checkpoints, frisked young men, and stopped drivers for the smallest infractions.
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