He is dashing, with a touch of raggedy wildness that suggests a young Terence Stamp or Rufus Sewell.
Naturally, that's dashed with a healthy dose of skepticism.
She's naturally doe-eyed, meaning her expressions of joy are dashed with melancholy, and her expressions of sadness are dashed with hope.
The houses themselves are dashed with splashes of bright blue, perhaps mixed in with the odd windmill or domed church.
Each time, Holcomb calmly cruised past Curve 13, the treacherous turn where medal dreams were dashed with six crashes on Friday.
Philadelphia has experienced a particular kind of defeat, perhaps the worst kind, where expectations are raised regularly, only to be dashed with gut-wrenching agony.
Hopes that it was finally under control in Guinea have been dashed with new cases in districts close to Conarky and Lola near the Ivory Coast.
Ireland's hopes of gate-crashing the quarter-finals of the Cricket World Cup were dashed with a seven-wicket defeat by Pakistan in Adelaide.
(No. 6 Alabama's national title hopes were dashed with a 24-21 loss at Louisiana State, a development nearly overshadowed by the bizarre shot of Tigers Coach Les Miles eating grass on the sideline before a key fourth-down play).
It looked promising - but hopes were dashed with two more poor performances when the qualification campaign resumed.
