curlicue , also: curlycue

"I might try 10 times to make one curlicue, and the first 9 fail," he said.

I could not even reproduce the curlicues in the letters.

Once, while working on a table with 140 of these stubborn curlicues, he said, the job made him just about crazy.

It ran away from the ocean in little bumps and curlicues.

Her eyes wandered around the loops and curlicues of the writing.

Now he was caught on the gilded curlicues of his own plots.

And there were curlicues above the great glass doors.

He rarely works off notes, which allows him to add a verbal curlicue or two at each stop.

The sound moved in a dance, pale blue curlicues against a blazing white silence.

His characters are always drawn with curlicues at the elbows and knees.

But his curlicues are good enough to goose his films to life.

Dad began walking forward, kicking up curlicues of dust with his boots.

Roger stated at the page in front of him until the letters lost their meaning and became no more than curlicues.

The back wall exhorted the students to practice their swirls and curlicues.

Wet white hair was pinned in curlicues all over a pink skull.

It felt like a picture made by kids in love with the Byzantine curlicues of film noir.

Give me a curlicue and I'll snap it off.' "

It makes seamless what is rich with curlicues and furbelows.

So did their black stockings, decorated with curlicues and other fancy patterns.

Lola's color scheme is right, and I've got everything else down to the last curlicue of chrome.

As for titles, I think we can all dispense with the curlicues."

You can barely pass between the knee-high curlicues of hedge.

"Winter's dark was finally banished from the dismal scene" is a typical curlicue.

Its symbol was a curlicue with an inverted trapezoid at each end.

The flowers have sparkling white petals forming a round curlicue at the center.