- The
spleen is an
organ found in
almost all vertebrates.
Similar in
structure to a
large lymph node, it acts
primarily as a
blood filter. The word spleen...
-
stealing the
whole **** show.
Every sneer,
every eye-roll,
every flourish of
splenetic exasperation is a joy to behold.
Whether he's
cancelling Christmas or...
- content,
Hastings suggests, gave the
public a
fixed image of Waugh: "stout,
splenetic, red-faced and reactionary, a
figure from
burlesque complete with cigar...
-
Another house mate,
actor Michael Feast,
described MacKerrell as a "
splenetic wastrel of a fop",
whilst Robinson has said he was a "jack of all but...
-
Metal Machine Music (pre- or post-Suicide opus?),
Captain Beefheart, the
splenetic Dada
master who
blended rock and jazz, the
nasty Garage scene's golden...
- I am to give a talk in his name doesn’t
leave him
spitting spiritedly splenetic spoonerisms in
comedy heaven. The Washington, D.C.
political comedy group...
- (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1903). This
pamphlet is a
collection of (
splenetic)
letters in
which Sprengel defends his
priority in the use of
picric acid...
- and honey.
Diasenna was said to ease and
comfort the melancholic, and
splenetic, and was good
against all
diseases arising from an atrabilis. "diasenna"...
- (1965)
Poems in Prose,
Nostalgia of the Unknown: The
Complete Prose Poetry Splenetic, pale Narcissus, in the
green dead
depth of some
rotting pool: thou seest...
- funk-rock and
grinding heavy metal with
suitably doom-mongering
lyrics and
splenetic vocals". In 2019,
Pitchfork placed the
album at No. 9 on
their "33 Best...
