(a.) Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Absinthe was distilled from an alcoholic steep of herbs.
(2) Hallucinations induced by absinthe, the popular liqueur of the period, may explain particular canvases but not the majority of 'high yellow' paintings.
(3) Through an absinthe haze, he insists that he is not part of the massacre, not party to the hate.
(4) There are also implications for the illness of Vincent van Gogh and the once popular, but now banned liqueur, called absinthe.
(5) James Joyce liked whiskey and Oscar Wilde quaffed absinthe, neither of which I would serve to myself in the bath unless I were reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (and we all know how that ends).
(6) But the artist admitted to episodes of heavy drinking that were amply confirmed by colleagues and there is good evidence to indicate that addiction to absinthe exacerbated his illness.
(7) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
(8) (Midlake band members also own the Paschall speakeasy on the square and sometimes wield spoons and sugarcubes themselves for the absinthe preparation.)
(9) Just as the British Romantic artist and poet William Blake saw spirits and portrayed them, the late 19th-century symbolist Munch, abetted by loneliness, absinthe, magical experiments and by the spiritualist Christianity of his childhood, could slip into hallucinations.
(10) And all forms of alcohol, including absinthe, and vodka bongs.
(11) Camphor, alpha-pinene (the major component of turpentine), and thujone (a constituent in the liqueur called absinthe) produced an increase in porphyrin production in primary cultures of chick embryo liver cells.
(12) Yet upstairs at Andy’s is Paschall , a speakeasy whose absinthe glasses, antiques and bookcases are more Left Bank than Texas.
(13) His first painting submitted to the Paris Salon – and rejected – was of an absinthe drinker."
(14) If anything, Ronson's brand of creative collaboration recalls the absinthe-soaked salons of 1920s Paris – a cultural meeting point where artists can come and share ideas, "but," says Ronson in his dry mid-Atlantic drawl, "with less alcoholism".
(15) Modigliani's Reclining Nude fetches second-highest ever art auction price Read more Amedeo Modigliani was high on hashish, wrecked by absinthe, and desperately poor when he painted this hymn to lust in 1917-18.
(16) You expect, at a party hosted by the Erotic Review at which there is nothing to drink but absinthe, to end up redefining, with disturbing new nuances, the words 'guilt' and 'hangover'.
(17) Eight weeks later, on 23 December, the partnership came to a violent end when the pair quarrelled violently over, it is believed, Van Gogh spending the meagre household budget on prostitutes, and his refusal to stop drinking absinthe.
(18) The new streets came with trees and broad pavements along which café terraces sprang up, soon to be filled with artists and artisans enjoying “absinthe hour”.
(19) Bowl food is considered crass, though very much encouraged if you have an absinthe bar, or sooner or later all dignity will be gone.
(20) As well as 100 classic cocktails, listed alphabetically from an absinthe frappe to a zombie (all for under $14), it serves craft punches by the bowl for parties of four to six and small plates to soak up the alcohol.
Wormwood
Definition:
(n.) A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
(n.) Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.
Example Sentences:
(1) UK prison population is biggest in western Europe Read more The final version of the inspection report remains highly critical of conditions in Wormwood Scrubs, where outcomes for the 1,258 men held there are still “unacceptably poor”.
(2) He was killed as armed police swooped and foiled an attempt to free Izzet Eren as he was being transported from Wormwood Scrubs prison to Wood Green crown court on 11 December.
(3) More than 50 staff at Wormwood Scrubs prison have walked out, saying they do not feel safe there.
(4) Staff are human, they are under extreme pressure, the service is under extreme pressure, and sometimes there are tragic consequences.” In the 20-month period, the figures show that Woodhill, Wormwood Scrubs and Hewell prisons had the highest number of self-inflicted deaths, with five each.
(5) Question Time will be recorded at about 8.30pm next Thursday and then broadcast at 10.35pm on BBC1 from Wormwood Scrubs, a category B prison in west London that accepts inmates who are over 21 who and do not require maximum security.
(6) A few days later, he was judged well enough to return to Wormwood Scrubs, where it appeared that the jail was not prepared for him.
(7) He said that he had dumped one of the devices in a park in Wormwood Scrubs, west London, and later handed himself into police saying that he had backed out of the plot, which he believed was real, at the last minute.
(8) I want to see prisoners motivated to engage in their own learning and governors with the right tools to be more demanding and creative about the education provided in the prisons they run.” Coates recently carried out a review of teaching standards for the Department for Education and her recommended diet of punctuality, respect and constant exams has been credited with turning around Burlington Danes academy in White City in west London, which lies in the shadow of Wormwood Scrubs prison.
(9) In August last year, Daniel Roque Hall was rushed from Wormwood Scrubs prison, London to University College Hospital and placed in intensive care.
(10) It is not the first time Wormwood Scrubs has been used as a broadcasting venue.
(11) I have taught around 40 inmates in Wormwood Scrubs and 10 in Brixton alongside three other mentors.
(12) In February this year, he was released by the court of appeal after his lawyers argued Wormwood Scrubs could not meet his complex medical needs.
(13) The activities of six other species of Tanacetum, as well as of Artemisia absinthium (wormwood) and Zingiber officinale (ginger), and two commercial drugs for migraine prophylaxis, verapamil hydrochloride and propranolol hydrochloride, were also assessed.
(14) Allergenic active fractions of ragweed, wormwood, goosefoot and sunflower pollen with a molecular weight of 37 000, 19 000, 35 000 and 14 000, respectively, were isolated by chromatography on Sephadex.
(15) Anne says the judge looked shocked after Wormwood Scrubs insisted it was perfectly capable of looking after her son.
(16) They also heard from Zoe Kealey who talked frankly about the painful events that led up to her brother Darwin hanging himself in Wormwood Scrubs prison.
(17) Security on BBC1's Question Time will be tighter than ever for Thursday night's edition being broadcast from Wormwood Scrubs and featuring under-fire justice secretary Ken Clarke.
(18) The earlier version also reported that one in 10 prisoners at Wormwood Scrubs said they had been physically assaulted and that “too many prisoners at risk of suicide or self-harm were held in the segregation unit without any explanation of the exceptional reasons required to justify it”.
(19) Jennifer Edward-Price, deputy education manager at Wormwood Scrubs, has seen at first hand inmates’ transformation.
(20) Cell Mates, the story of the relationship between the Russian spy George Blake and Sean Bourke, the Irishman who helped him escape from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966 and defect to Moscow, looked like a surefire success.