Alliterative Amusements

[poetree_admin]

alee_grrl & jjhunter

Let's play a game in the comments today. Offer a prompt by starting a new comment thread with your chosen word or phrase in the subject line. Answer prompts that inspire you with a single sentence using as much alliteration as possible (sometimes it is impossible to have all the words start with the same sound). There are no limits on how many prompts you can offer or answer, and more than one person is welcome to answer a particular prompt.

Or in more appropriate language,

Admins advance an alliterative activity for this association's amusement. Whisper words with which wandering wordsmiths may weave wondrous wordplay. Pick a prompt to play, and structure statements starting with selected suggestions.

An excellent example of elegant expression is this video excerpt from V for Vendetta.

Comments

Fanfaronade

[jjhunter]

"Swaggering; empty boasting; blustering manner or behavior; ostentatious display."

(Gleefully borrowed from A-Z of Unusual Words.)

[sharpeningthebones]

She swaggered down the stairs, stopping solely to snap s shot of the safehouse

Re: Fanfaronade/Swaggering

[jjhunter]

Flaunting Fiona's fine fanfaronade falters, facing unforeseen force of father's disfavor.

Re: Fanfaronade

[untonuggan]

Frank the flippant Francophone fanfaronaded with fabulous fanfare far from the French fairgrounds to flip the fuse on the frabjous fireworks.

Re: Fanfaronade

[altamira16]

Francine flirtatiously fanned herself as she flouted the fanfaronade of feeble suitors.

tremulous entrenchment

[jjhunter]

Callipygian

[jjhunter]

"having well-shaped buttocks"

Re: Callipygian

[altamira16]

The callipygian curves caressed by Clara's contoured costume convinced Candice to command the child to choose more conservatively.

inscrutable

[sharpeningthebones]

Re: inscrutable

[primeideal]

Beguiling blank bribes bards, beckoning brilliance--but blustery bafflement bodes.

(I was just revisiting one of my alliterative efforts yesterday--excellent timing, admins! :D )

Re: inscrutable

[altamira16]

The ink infused envelope was inscrutable to Evi's old eyes.

Re: inscrutable

[zirconium]

Sighing, she ceased her squinting, sticking the statement under a saucer.

Re: inscrutable

[altamira16]

The dusty dish decorated the damask draped over the dining room table.

Persnickety

[untonuggan]

adjective Informal.
1.
overparticular; fussy.
2.
snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob.
3.
requiring painstaking care.

Re: Persnickety

[altamira16]

Persnickety planters prefer peonies and poppies over philodendron picked by procrastinators.