In his 1864 book on Shakespeare portraits J. Hain Friswell wrote, "One cannot readily imagine our essentially English Shakespeare to have been a dark, heavy man, with a foreign expression, of decidedly Jewish physiognomy, thin curly hair, a somewhat lubricious mouth, red-edged eyes, wanton lips, with a coarse expression and his ears tricked out with earrings".
The vamps she portrays are never entirely heartless, and they usually atone for their wanton behavior with self-immolation.
It's all just that little bit wrong, then – the wanton juxtaposed with the more dowdy – and seems relevant and, more importantly, no less beautiful for that.
Even broccoli turns wanton, flung with slivers of duck bacon and pickled watermelon rind in a fish sauce vinaigrette, with (wait for it) a dollop of duck fat.
No mention of coke parties on yachts or wanton sex with willing Americans — or the vast majority of the art being of "a banality that beggars belief".
Full of great storytelling, as well as knives to faces, torture, explosions, defenestrations and wanton sprayings with automatic weapons, Braquo is lean, tense and highly addictive.
Consider, for example, a night of wanton passion with Clifton Chilli club member Dave, after he's eaten a moruga scorpion chilli.
While adhering to conventional forms, these novels presented an unsentimental, harsh, and action-packed world of wanton cruelty, with crisp plots in which the characters seem to be propelled by superior forces, as in Classical tragedy.
A lot of surfers would sign up for this description of that well-known wave aficionado, Byron ("And I have loved thee, ocean!... I wanton'd with thy breakers"), and Moore bathes his tribe in a warm, primal glow.
She pays for her wanton behavior with her life, a trite ending that doesn't live up to most of this "Lulu," which so vibrantly explodes the clichés that have accumulated around her for more than 100 years.
