The results range from blowzy abstractions to a nervy, drawn portrait of Fernando Pessoa, Portugal's most celebrated 20th-century poet, bringing to life an art form at which the Portuguese have excelled for more than half a millennium.
He created almost unaided a gallery of types missed by Hogarth, many of which persist in British life the antiquarian, the old maid, the harried foreign servant, the pleasantly blowzy barmaid, the decent old parson.
Alma Mater used to be a sentimental lady, barefoot in blowzy drapery, looking afar to vain wisdom and the Greeks.
Pousette-Dart's blowzy spirituality is a trial, what with the cornball mandalas and hieroglyphs.
Lowry's relentlessly interior characters are forced to acknowledge the outside world; the big blowzy thoughts, the pell-mell abstractions, are pinned down by abruptly lucid detail.
As Imogen, though, Amy looks tired and blowzy beneath her makeup.
The music is looser, somewhere between literalist Ramones punk and blowzy 1970s arena rock, as if the band, finally untethered from the stresses of narrative, is enjoying itself.
At one point Ms. Everett climbed up on the piano and removed her dress to bare a torso plastered with American flags: a blowzy Statue of Liberty parody.
L'Armoise For anyone seeking a rare whiff of the blowzy bohemian atmosphere that put the Riviera on the map decades ago, there's no better place along the coast than the Old Town of Antibes.
Its surprisingly rugged, blowzy plantings resonate with its derelict past.
Vanessa Traina, married to Mr. Snow, and Victoria, her sister, ate at a picnic table in blowzy black Céline blouses.
