So "thusly" is unnecessary — colloquial at best, illiterate in the view of many readers.
She then describes Rihanna thusly: "I'm actually starting to wonder whether she might not have some kind of medical condition which prevents her from keeping her legs – as well as her stupid trap – shut".
During the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Barack Obama caught a ton of flack when he described rural Midwesterners thusly: "So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations".
I describe the stories on my site, The Daddy Complex, thusly: Read what I do, then do the opposite.
Asked what was on her mind this day, she began a tirade against one of the presidential candidates, then stopped and summed up her mind-set thusly: "Women's rights".
As an example of Mr. Adrià's profundity, Mr. Andrews quotes him thusly: "Why do we have coffee and then an egg at breakfast, while at lunch we eat the egg and then have the coffee?
We see this as a trend, and thusly it should be watched, packaged, marketed, and then, of course, put on lunch boxes.
The timeline follows thusly: I watched the movie, read the book, then became short-term pen pals with Elizabeth Wurtzel.
The conversation starts like this: "What's wrong with the Australian film industry?" It continues thusly: "We don't make enough genre films!" And then concludes with all parties voicing theories and solutions that have absolutely no bearing on reality.
Then it reaches Alastair Cook, whose coupon could not, even generously, be thusly described.
