Sentence examples for almost riotous from inspiring English sources

Again they held the increasingly raucous, almost riotous crowd on a string.

This use of tiny shapes, linked in their almost riotous accumulation but each distinct from its neighbour, is the basis of some of his most powerful and exquisite drawings, such as Garden with Sunflowers, 1888.

And Robert Hardman, in the Daily Mail, says: "Set against the dry-as-dust protocol which has traditionally governed royal visits to the Vatican, this meeting was almost riotous".

And what about riotous 70s hair?

"It was the first time city hall was almost taken over by riotous crowd," he said with no small amount of pride.

The riotous, anti-authoritarian history of Alsatia has almost entirely disappeared from memory [3].

To Mrs. McCarthy, having a Christmas tree with white lights meant creating almost a room of her own in a house overrun by riotous color.

Riotous chipmunks and squirrels skittered about.

This year, in performances today, next Sunday and on Christmas, it offers the Baroque program, presumably including Charpentier's almost comically morose setting of the famous "folia" tune, which other Baroque composers put to riotous use, and the anonymous "Old Yeare Now Away Is Fled," "Greensleeves" by another name and in a slightly tipsy mode.

The most colorful work in the lineup was Mr. Barry's riotous Sextet.

That's almost the only time you hear the gears grind, though, in a show that otherwise demonstrates, with riotous flair, that panto, millennial savvy and trenchant political comedy can make for very entertaining bedfellows.