A few months into the relationship, he knocked her down in an argument over whether she was too racily dressed.

That passage shows how racily readable this old man can be.

It may read thin here; it would smack racily in the playroom.

Rayner's potted history is racily told but many of the usual English sources are apparent.

These stories are racily told.

And there will be bias-cut dresses, jewels racily set on nude slips, and a few good suits.

Nearby, taxicab-yellow lily tulips with racily pointed petals played into a color scheme of burgundy, white and yellow.

Marge Piercy has always invested a popular format - the racily narrated blockbuster - with a radical message.

The Brief is a very racily written little biography, giving in the space of 100 pages all that is necessary to be known about Cosin.

The sun shone clearly and pleasantly; the wind was fresh and brisk upon their faces, and smelt racily of woods and meadows.

Using real Iran-contra names in a racily (but carefully) written account, Ms. Raskin connects contras to drug distribution in Washington.

The style is racily idiomatic and each fable is accompanied by a short moral and a longer reflection, which set the format for fable collections for the next century.

The result is "a racily entertaining novel" that "skillfully induces the reader to join 'the Brotherhood of the Sacred Hoop,' " Michael Anderson wrote here in 1992.

Neither and nor were somewhat racily labeled by the grammarian George O. Curme as "copulative conjunctions" because they work as a pair - together, though not adjacent - to make connections.

Most English wines have a fine fruit structure and a racily crisp freshness, so they are well matched to lightly flavoured fish - especially fish such as trout - and to light poultry dishes.

It may help that the novel is racily translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum, an American who grew up in Tokyo and who studied at the University of California.

Created by the triumphant trio of Offenbach, Meilhac and Halevy at the height of their powers in 1869, this is a highly amusing and racily melodic burlesque of banditry.

One of the most important reports on the run-up to the financial crisis was published on December 9 by the racily titled Independent Evaluation Office, an arm of the International Monetary Fund.

They spelled out words like "racily," "boxier," "ego" and "zoo" on their boards, competing in the very room where the first players sat 60 years ago, helping Alfred Mosher Butts perfect his game.

In The Sunday Times, A. A. Gill praised Penry-Jones and said that it was "racily paced" and was "the closest to the original [the book] and by far and away the most convincing".

A diminutive woman, Ms. Lefkowitz wears her steel gray hair in a Maid of Orleans crop and accessorizes her pale gray sweater and skirt with chunky silver jewelry and racily striped Wolford tights.

Eclectic in her tastes, she thinks nothing of mixing a demure lilac cardigan with racily streamlined Prada pants, and she dreams of the days when she'll be trim enough again to snake into Gucci's new lace-up-the sides leather pants.

His 30th book, Blood of the Earth: The Global Battle for Vanishing Oil Resources (2008), was described in the Guardian as an "encyclopaedic yet racily readable account of the economy, science and geopolitics of oil over the past century."