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  • s  very desirable
    a plummy leading role
  • s  (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich
    the radio announcer's plummy voice

  • Jokes and fantasies, social and political critiques, plummy visions of Christmas swept from his pen.
  • Distanced from the work by crowds and railings, they may listen on their Acoustiguides to the plummy vowels of the Met's director, Philippe de Montebello, discoursing like an .
  • He finds neither the timber of Nixon's plummy baritone, with its wonderfully false attempts at intimacy, nor the stature of a career climber who, with raw hands, scaled the .
News & Articles

  • Dancing Creek Winery
    Pinot Noir 2009—A Wine to Dance To At the Pinot Paradise event back in March, I tasted some very good Pinots from the Santa Cruz Mountains, and Dancing Creek Winery’s 2009 Pinot ($27) was one of them. This plummy dark brew, made from grapes grown in Corralitos, has delicious flavors of pomegranate, prosciutto, dried cherries, and mint julep.
    June 12, 2013 - Good Times
Quotes

  • Rob Hirst in Sydney Morning Herald
    Hirst described Turnbull as "a plummy brew of eloquence, imperiousness and un-humble pie, plus a kind of sighing, saturnine resignation that his job necessarily involves being constantly surrounded by cretins. Ah the bright man's burden! The lot of...
  • Matthew Rhys in Sunday Herald
    It's weird because a lot of people in Wales have a very strong idea of who Thomas was and who he is to them, and not that many people will have listened to him orate,says Rhys. "So when I say I'm not doing the plummy accent, people go,...

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