Parker's watercolors are again up to the task, and perhaps even better suited to the daredevil ricketiness of the Wright brothers' invention than they are to the breathtaking avant-gardeness of Pollock's paintings. |
But that ricketiness ceases to matter when it is engulfed by a tsunami of jokes, a tidal wave of argumentative statements, a gorgeous gust of opinion. |
A powder ground from its dry leaves has been used to fight anaemia, ricketiness, dysentery, rheumatism, asthma and is also used as a tonic. |
Although its technology is state-of-the-art, the impression of ricketiness gives you a real old-time thrill. |
It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness. |
How it paid him might be inferred from the oldness of his clothes and the ricketiness of his office. |