Sentence examples for like festive from inspiring English sources

Like festive 'peacocking' to use a term stolen from The Game; a way perhaps to highlight how much they can afford to spend at B&Q throughout November.

It makes me sigh every time I see culture and literature treated like festive lanterns — hung out in extravagant displays whenever needed and then discarded when the excitement is over.

At www.behr.com, where shoppers can click on a "Color Smart" tool to choose paint colors organized into categories like Festive, Peaceful and All Grown Up, shoppers can play around with four-color palettes of coordinated shades.

While there are some predictable elements in many of the works, like festive color schemes and a reliance on folklore, this art is much closer to what we have come to classify universally as Outsider Art.

The crowd became almost raucous, laughing and cheering as their country's representatives volunteered, or allowed themselves to be goaded into, joining the parade of sportsmanlike abandon, shedding bulky outerwear and decorum to send the soccer ball flying toward the still-standing net, like festive missiles of transnational goodwill.

If its stock and real estate markets completely melt down, then, China's negative net worth problem and associated debt-deflation -- its "great depression" -- could well make our own look like festive occasions.

LIKE many festive occasions planned before the attack on the World Trade Center, the gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Wainwright House here was postponed in favor of a simpler, more somber event.

Friday to 22 January, Hoopers Gallery, London EC1, hoopersgallery.co.uk AJ Music For those who like their festive song a little more avant-garde than the usual choral renditions of Silent Night, the Barbican's Twisted Christmas might hit the right note.

Do you like a festive table?

(You're welcome?) Synesthetically, birthdays are blue-purple, which I probably conceived through some narcissism-prism of a mid-January birthday (Birthday-activity ice skating is white in reality, but feels blue, clean, cold; The themeless birthday décor of an awkwardly timed/trans-holiday birthday will be mutably festive, like purple).

And while some of the regular customers, like Nick and Pat Pavone of Wurtsboro, appreciate events like the festive Polka Sundays, even they feel that the Catskills aren't exactly leading the casino parade.