All 6 Uses of
raucous
in
A Hope in the Unseen
- Looking across the raucous cafeteria crowd, Cedric is reminded of the assembly-probably most of these kids were there-and what he said that day to Mr. Taylor, about how not going made him feel ashamed.†
Chpt 1
- The auditorium rings with raucous cheering as teams prepare their robots for battle.†
Chpt 4 *
- "Oh, he will, don't worry," says Barbara sheepishly, before she's drowned out by the Ballou chorus as it launches into a soulful rendition of the old spiritual "Amazing Grace," changes course midway into the Afrocentrically sensible theme from Disney's Lion King, and finishes raucously on "got no worries, for the rest of your days, it's my trouble free philosophy, Hacuna Matata."†
Chpt 5
- On the northeast fringe of the city, Cedric Gilliam pecks Sherene, his new girlfriend, on the cheek as lie slips through the door of the Chateau-a raucous black nightclub-where she works as a hostess.†
Chpt 6
- During languid second and third cups of coffee and tea, David Korb tells everyone a raucous tale of a Spanish emigre friend-Juanito, who once attended Thanksgiving here-and how he got lost in New York, "running uptown and downtown in his yellow shorts, yellow T-shirt, camera strapped around his neck dripping with sweat ...yelling to himself, 'Where am I, how did I get here?'†
Chpt 10
- Like the suburban white kids who could afford to party and experiment in their safe realms, similar privileges were extended to these mostly middle-class blacks, who now can cherry pick some raucous ingredients from the black urban buffet to fire the mix.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
loud and disturbing; or disorderly and boisterous