Sentence examples for wanton in from inspiring English sources

Raised on that sober palette, Harry Koyama is wanton in his use of color.

Monica Dolan - ungainly and uningratiating - is an outstanding Masha, sniffing away in her snuff box, but as wanton in her wishes as a teenager.

And the elderly receiving benefits will also be demonized as having been wanton in their financial matters during their working years and thus "unworthy" of receiving assistance in old age.

"We heard it ripple night and day; / Sounding o'er our heads it knock'd; / And I have felt the winter's spray / Wash through the bars when winds were high / And wanton in the happy sky".

The same could be said of the Roppongi Hills centre in Tokyo, François Mitterrand's national library in Paris or countless buildings elsewhere.Most cities in rich countries, with honourable exceptions, have been wanton in tearing down buildings, domestic, commercial and public, that were built to a human scale and reflected local history.

"He infuses it with so much energy in the sounds of the language and in the syntax," Mr. Pinsky said, citing the last verse, which begins: And wanton in thy cravings, thou mayst know, That flesh is but the glass, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.

She received Oscar nominations as best actress for her performances as an amnesiac cured by Joseph Cotten's love in "Love Letters" (1945), as the wanton Pearl Chavez in "Duel in the Sun" and as a Eurasian doctor in love with a Korean War correspondent (William Holden) in "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (1955).

He was fascinated by the difference between his physical self, dragged down with "languour" and kidney spasms and "slight attacks of typhus" and that other, extraordinary part of him, that... aspires to Heaven, Pants for its sempiternal heritage, And, ever-changing, ever-rising still, Wantons in endless being... Shelley's "mystifying metaphysics" was Byron's taunting name for this.

That spirit reached its height during the celebration of victory over Japan in August 1945, when the photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured a sailor and a nurse in an innocently wanton embrace in the middle of Broadway.

Or perhaps in the arms of some wanton doxy in Wapping?

What's most interesting to us here is a provision in the bill, which it's expected that President Bush will sign into law, that tells college campuses to rein in wanton P2P downloading.