tipsiness

They plan to take advantage of his tipsiness to get some money or valuables off him.

In fact, his usual reaction to tipsiness was to become more direct and pithier.

It was like the brief tipsiness from the glass of vinegary wine.

The commotion woke everyone up, and Lara, whose tipsiness had suddenly gone, did not allow them to go back to sleep.

To stave off tipsiness, one of Otik's large suppers was ordered.

Well after midnight, the street was filled with knots of people in various stages of tipsiness, laughing and talking loudly.

Most memorable was a scene in which her character feigned tipsiness for which she received a two minute ovation on opening night.

It was the only time Louis saw Jud progress beyond a mild tipsiness, and even so he did not become incapacitated.

Another subject which features strongly in Wodehouse's plots is alcohol, and many plots revolve around the tipsiness of a major character.

It was hard for anyone watching the proceedings to fault Miller for tipsiness when the sport was throwing so much booze at him, literally.

The disguises he had brilliantly conceived were still working, taking in even the head man, though he had spotted Fafhrd's tipsiness.

As I've indicated, our Faith is happy with tipsiness but frowns upon drunkenness taken to the point of incapacity, inarticulacy and insensibility.

Trinculo, in contrast, is disgusted with Caliban's gullibility as well as his increasing tipsiness, and he's suddenly embarrassed that he feared the monster at first.

In coining the modern verb, did cinematographers intend the jerky movements of the subjects to reflect the older meaning connoting whimsy and tipsiness?

Yurii Andreievich had not slept enough; there was a pleasant haze in his head, like tipsiness, and he ached all over with a nagging blissful weakness.

They also frowned at her swift descent into raucous tipsiness and at the way she destroyed any possibility of romance by making an off-color joke about sheep farming in Australia.

Some positive thinkers have linked Mia-mania and Brandi tipsiness with the dawning of a new age of women's sports, but Messing, ever the businesswoman and lawyer, was somewhat cautious.

He has aged beyond his years but has handled his stroke with grace and even good humor - deliberately mentioning it to visitors, he says, so they won't attribute his impeded speech to tipsiness.

(Sings: "Where the brave lad in durance," etc.) Still, Father Missail, when I am drinking, then I don't like sober men; tipsiness is one thing--but pride quite another.

Discussions of Mr. Yeltsin's fitness and purported tipsiness on foreign trips - most recently in Germany and on his return from the United States - are becoming more widespread in the mainstream press.

Staged here by Christopher Newton, the 1937 ballet is a mad stew of marriages of convenience, gossiping women, sour old love affairs, tipsiness and sexual ambiguities, with a good deal of wild sadness below the surface.

One of the Blues offered him a flask of wine and he took a deep drink; then, hugging the man in mock tipsiness, Metaxas cunningly whisked the Blue's sword from its sheath and pretended to run him through.

Most of all, she hoped to hell that he wouldn't regret what they had done for her sake, wouldn't feel that he had taken advantage of her vulnerability or her tipsiness, or any of that male rubbish.

At the same time, however, while a degree of tipsiness is welcomed and indeed even encouraged at certain social events in the Order, extreme inebriation and loss of control of one's mental and bodily functions is very much frowned upon.

Mr. Vick and his production team of Paul Brown, Thomas Webster and Ron Howell make sure our eyes do not forget the centrality of tipsiness to this compact beauty of an opera from Verdi's extreme old age.