Set at a critical moment ( 1884 ) when Sullivan considered quitting the team to compose " serious " music, " Topsy-Turvy " contemplates the creative chemistry of a stiff-necked prude ( Gilbert ) and a voluptuary ( Sullivan ) whose faltering collaboration resumes after Gilbert's wife drags him to an exhibition of Japanese culture.
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In a more extensive letter written shortly afterward, Hamilton details the many charges that he has against Burr, calling him a " profligate, a voluptuary in the extreme , accusing him of corruptly serving the interests of the Holland Land Company while a member of the legislature, criticizing his military commission and accusing him of resigning under false pretenses, and many more serious accusations.
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In fact, the Stones'onetime posture as dissolute voluptuaries-- a posture reinforced, say, by the smashed birthday cake on the cover of " Let It Bleed " and the chaotic party scene on " Exile on Main Street "-- has always belied their other identity as committed musicians who have built and sustained a remarkable body of work.
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San Francisco screenwriter, mid-30's female, lucid, wry, kind, emotionally generous and forthright, extremely fit and comely blue-eyed bicyclist; desires self-aware, serene, sensual, supple, tall, expressive, loving man for stormy coastlines, books, be-bop, swing dancing, caressing, confessing, voluptuary highs and intimate friendship.
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Returning again and again to the type that would later be called the " Byronic hero ", " Lord Byron makes man after his own image, woman after his own heart; the one is a capricious tyrant, the other a yielding slave; he gives us the misanthrope and the voluptuary by turns; and with these two characters, burning or melting in their own fires, he makes out everlasting centos of himself ."
Among Gillray's best satires on George III are : " Farmer George and his Wife ", two companion plates, in one of which the king is toasting muffins for breakfast, and in the other the queen is frying sprats; " The Anti-Saccharites ", where the royal pair propose to dispense with sugar, to the great horror of the family; " A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper "; the paired plates " A Voluptuary under the Horrors of Digestion " and " Temperance enjoying a Frugal Meal ", satirising the excesses of the Prince Regent ( later George IV of the United Kingdom ) and the miserliness of his father, George III of the United Kingdom respectively; " Royal Affability "; " A Lesson in Apple Dumplings "; and " The Pigs Possessed ".
