Alma Mater used to be a sentimental lady, barefoot in blowzy drapery, looking afar to vain wisdom and the Greeks. |
He created almost unaided a gallery of types missed by Hogarth, many of which persist in British life the antiquarian, the old maid, the harried foreign servant, the pleasantly blowzy barmaid, the decent old parson. |
The gaunt actress looks more like a heroin addict than the blowzy drunk he had in mind. |
Yet there it stands in the midst of society with the appetite of a dinosaur, fed by blowzy socialites. |
Shelton was repelled by her proprietary tone, by her blowzy face, and by the scent of patchouli. |
The May sun was striding, an incongruous, provincial virgin, through a litter of blowzy streets. |