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rave

[WPI] 1. To persist in discussing a specific subject.

2. To speak authoritatively on a subject about which one knows very little.

3. To complain to a person who is not in a position to correct the difficulty.

4. To purposely annoy another person verbally.

5. To evangelise. See flame.

6. Also used to describe a less negative form of blather, such as friendly bullshitting. "Rave" differs slightly from flame in that "rave" implies that it is the persistence or obliviousness of the person speaking that is annoying, while flame implies somewhat more strongly that the tone or content is offensive as well.
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I realise all those late night rave-ups have probably blighted the old memory box a fair bit, but cast your minds back if you can.
The Norfolk mansion they bought for pounds 350,000 - now wrecked by Mickey's rave-ups with his yob mates - is still in joint names and Sandra had hoped one day to return there.
The rest of his already extensive catalogue consummates the same marriage of sideways cinematic inspiration and modernized rave-ups. It all makes more sense when you find out he spent his youth in mystical Monterey, remembers his composer father's trips to Nigeria in the '80s to "figure some things out," cites CS Lewis characters as spiritual kindred, and starts sentences with phrases like, "Things I've related to in the past century are ..." For real, he said that, and it honestly didn't sound all that pompous.
But with so much eye candy like the collaborative Love Stories and hyped rave-ups like Tharp's The Golden Section, 2007 should be remembered as the Year of The Groove when young choreographer Camille A.
[laced with] all of its ironies and foibles." Hence, there are straightforward tracks like "If I Had You." a lush old-school ballad that finds Harry longing for a romantically takecharge guy (or girl--the singer has confessed to a lesbian dalliance or two in her day), plus punky rave-ups like "Whiteout." with its purely sexual.
The group's first collection of all-new material since 2002 provides everything a fan would expect, including traditional styles ("Chuco's Cumbia"), David Hidalgo's tender ballads ("Little Things"), and bluesy, two-fisted rave-ups ("Two Dogs and a Bone").
The straightforward rave-ups and plucking of guitarist Aaron Dugan add color and cascade to virtually every track, and without Josh Werner's bass and Jonah David's drums, the whole rhythm-centric machine could never start up, let alone move.
Yes, this is a long way from the gyrating heavy sweating rave-ups of today, though maybe a lot closer to the new Saturday night hit-show Strictly Come Dancing which starts a second series next month.
66), careen among irresistible hooks, lush, dense arrangements, and frantically layered rave-ups. Then they pull one out of the collective hat like "Evening of the Day," its opening lines a straight cadge from Jagger and Richards' "As Time Goes By" and the chorus a nod to St.
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