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Example sentences for: swoon
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Even RP aficionados will swoon over the old photos and footage of not only Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, and Joey (who does not make an appearance until hour three), but also of such silver-screen notables as Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, and Montgomery Clift.
This 19th-century covered market is an overflowing cornucopia of delights for the senses: fresh fish; meats; sausages; fruits and vegetables; and all kinds of spices, neatly braided ropes of garlic, sun-dried tomatoes and peppers, preserves, and sweetmeats, to make a gourmand swoon.
In flashback, he has his way with one ("When I fook someone, they stay fooked") and sends the other into a decadelong swoon; in the present, he appears as a slick, enigmatic real-estate agent who refuses to acknowledge his previous persona.
Yes, in Keats' poems, life has a dreamy quality--but this is not a gorgeous swoon so much as the sense that somewhere, out of sight, we have already lived our actual lives, and that the life we are forced to feel through now is a posthumous remembrance of that earlier life, full of pain and loss.
A clue to the popularity of such dullness can be found in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the innovative merging of journalism and soft-core porn that put that magazine in the black and millions of frat boys into a swoon.