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These days, clusters of plummy Concords, oval autumn royals and dusky kyohos are decorating dinner tables, doubling as cornucopian decorations and low-effort snacks.
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New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
Reviewing a collection of Tom Wolfe’s journalism, Hitchens deplored Wolfe’s affectations and his plummy conservative politics.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2024
Onstage at the Duke of York’s Theatre, no plummy riposte gets the better of her.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
And although Runciman’s plummy tone never rises to the level of alarm, his prediction is that everything is about to get worse, and this is the point in his account where A.I. becomes more than a useful retrospective metaphor.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
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New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
Reviewing a collection of Tom Wolfe’s journalism, Hitchens deplored Wolfe’s affectations and his plummy conservative politics.
—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2024
Onstage at the Duke of York’s Theatre, no plummy riposte gets the better of her.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
And although Runciman’s plummy tone never rises to the level of alarm, his prediction is that everything is about to get worse, and this is the point in his account where A.I. becomes more than a useful retrospective metaphor.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2023
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“Plummy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plummy. Accessed 14 Oct. 2024.
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