"Bring on the Cherry Trees," one editorial urged, and all their "
umbrageous beauty."
They shun Spain,
umbrageous about their beaches and beer.
Flowers of rich and variegated hues bloom in the gardens, graveled walks traverse the orchards and graperies, and wind through the
umbrageous groves that fringe the Alamitos [Creek].
(41) During the twentieth century, the new class enshrined this homogeneous, low-density, and
umbrageous environment of single-family bornes as the common sense of modern middle-class living.
We are still too accustomed to seeing dramatic history through ontogenetic metanarratives, in which any single instance of dramatic style is an intermediary step on an evolutionary path from an inchoate and
umbrageous past to triumphant modernity (Shakespeare, or Ibsen, or Brecht).