Jonathan Swift, that literary genius and archcynic describes his mistress Celia's dressing room with its pettycoats in
frowzy heaps and its all-important dressing table covered in slutty disarray with "gally-pots and vials" half filled with "paint or slops" or combs equally filled with, "sweat, dandruff, powder, lead paint and human hair" When a woman sat at her dressing table, male cynics observed that she "endeavoured to be as much like any other creature as she possibly could."
A
frowzy woman in a housecoat and boxer shorts opened the door.
As the audience enters the theater, we find a
frowzy, gray-haired woman is already asleep in a La-Z-Boy recliner at the center of a small, cluttered living room set that adjoins a larger, empty stage area.
A modest, soft-spoken man whose office was a bit
frowzy, Kamen interrupted our meeting to take a call from a client, Jack Lemmon.
I followed the quartz lead until it revealed a soft, tube-shaped area 50 cm in diameter and completely filled with chlorite, partially altered
frowzy actinolite, heavily included quartz, many crystal fragments, and many jackstraw epidote specimens from microcrystals to crystal clusters some 30 cm in diameter.
When he visited Yosemite Valley, Ansel was often appalled by conditions:
frowzy shops selling tourist trinkets, too many cars and people, livestock staked out or turned loose in the meadows, a noisy pool hall and bowling alley at Camp Curry, and a general air of disorder and sloppiness.
When it returned in the spring season, Agon looked cool and sleek instead of
frowzy, with Peter Boal back from an injury, Maria Kowroski devouring the space about her, and Jock Soto flawlessly manipulating Wendy Whelan or Monique Meunier through the nail-puzzle intricacies of the pas de deux.
[Now the Assembly to adjourn prepar'd, When Bibliopolo from behind appear'd, As well describ'd by th' old Satyrick Bard:] With leering Looks, Bullfac'd, and Freckled fair, With two left Legs, and Judas-colour'd Hair, With
Frowzy Pores, that taint the ambient Air.
You're scared to your bones that your sad history will repeat itself, that he'll ditch you, that you'll get fat and
frowzy again and feel worthless and totally unlovable.
Beyond was the
frowzy brush island which was once the only protrusion.
Doll Tearsheet, a
frowzy companion of Sir John Falstaff.
Winston buys the 'peculiarly beautiful book' with 'the smooth creamy paper', which is to serve as his diary, from what he thinks is 'a
frowzy little junk-shop in a slummy quarter of the town'.
