The words we hear from Mary Alice in her treacly voice-over at the beginning and the end of each episode are as bromidic as wisdom gets. |
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Flora, initially an ivory-pale, dark-haired funest beauty, whom the author transformed just in time into a third bromidic dummy with a dun bun. |
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Now, not seven decades too soon, the musical theatre has decided to exploit the brand as well — to pit the transgressive power of Addams's mischief against the bromidic power of Broadway. |
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One yearns for the spring day when its bromidic suzerainty will have simpered away. |
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No one I knew ate raw fish and people ordered pizza with bromidic toppings. |
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