But six weeks later it had evolved into something robust, almost preening in its fuzziness and breadth.
Their protective feathers soak up the oil and their desperate preening means they ingest the toxic oil.
It was her vanity that disgusted me, the way she undercut the confession with a preening, maudlin joke.
Across the growing ranks of middle-class China, elders are pampering, preening and often spoiling their kids like never before.
There has been lots of talk, posturing and preening over the last two years of sporadic and inconsistent negotiations.
He took to Twitter like a duck to water, though not everyone was so pleased by all his preening.
When a preening guest approaches the mirror, the surface illuminates to reveal tiny, iridescent Botox bottles with preserved narcissus flowers.
He was always preening himself in the mirror of history, always wondering how his life would look to the biographer.
After all, only last November conservatives were preening themselves like peacocks, having won their seventh presidential election in ten contests.
Cheeks is the standout, a confident flibbertigibbet who regards himself as a modern Blanche DuBois, preening for the best Webcam angle.
And the feather-preening factories were mostly staffed with poor immigrant Jewish laborers.
To get Nnamabia out anytime soon would be delicate, especially with the police commissioner in Enugu giving gloating, preening interviews about the arrest of the cultists.
Unlike apes which spend much of their time picking dirt and lice off their skin and fur, elephant preening is more about rolling in mud than removing it.
And you simply can not ignore the masterpieces preening in their gorgeous spaces such as the Hirshhorn, east wing of the National Gallery, Corcoran and the Phillips Collection.
Not only is Tyson feisty and funny and glowing with inner light, but her co-stars prove more than compelling: Vanessa Williams is politely savage as her preening daughter-in-law, icy without becoming a dragon.
An award for best comedy gives Oscar's preening half the opportunity to recognize profound, well-crafted, seriously funny films that will go down as classics not just of the genre, but of the form.
Sharon Stone goes cold in this botched thiller maybe from the effort of pretending that her character, a beauteous book editor, would fall for the preening young computer wizard played by the vacant-and-proud-of-it William Baldwin.
And the public has been swept away in the colorful--and so far relatively peaceful--campaign festivities, a carnival of flags, revved-up motorbikes and tribal preening that's a welcome distraction from the hardships of a still contracting economy.
The Bright Young People live on, if only as social shorthand, because so much of their partying and preening was refracted in the press, who fed off the novelty and exoticism as vampires might a warm vein.
In saying this, I will inevitably come across as some kind of preening purist, claiming the mantle of "true conservatism" for my own wish-list of ideas, while dismissing others in Republican or Tory ranks as somehow phonies.
Well, here was a pageant, and on my first night in Florence: the 16th-century Palazzo Budini Gattai, with its ordered gardens, rib-vaulted loggia and towering mirrors that reflected and rebathed the self-consciously preening partygoers in flattering golden light.
Diana Guzman (Michelle Rodriguez), a sullen, withdrawn Brooklyn girl who lives with a hapless, preening father (Paul Calderon) and an unformed younger brother (Ray Santiago), walks into a local gym where her brother boxes and at once feels at home.
Then you have a Congressional hearing starring self-indulgent, preening traders from guilty as hell organizations testifying that they had no idea all this was coming, that it was an act of nature and the reason they did so well was they just know more and therefore still deserve their bonuses.
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