(n.) The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
(2) But how and when would the boozy, workshy, adorable slob who had spent 30 years twice a week in millions of British living rooms go?
(3) If the experts are correct, he will elaborate this homespun philosophy before a necessarily adoring congress, confirming that it replaces his father’s songun (“military first”) mantera.
(4) True, that comment was made early in Guardiola’s spell as Bayern manager and perhaps it was just a way of endearing himself to his new captain, but there is no doubt the former Barcelona manager adores Lahm.
(5) "When Lee was born the family adored him, he was a precious gift given to us."
(6) I adore them all, from the grand level of chaining yourself to a building to the less high-maintenance, where you can pop home for your tea.
(7) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
(8) Her family said Boden was “loved and adored by her family, friends and boyfriend”.
(9) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
(10) Wilson, though, quick to adopt new personas, and adapt to new circumstances, adored the attention, and shrewdly exploited his role as local minor celebrity when it came to what he was really interested in - helping Manchester to recreate itself as a major city, with its radical, inventive and progressive traditions intact.
(11) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.
(12) At the place where adorable meets obnoxious and the purr becomes a shriek, Leslie Mann is waiting to unload a howitzer of funny in your face.
(13) Pinter adores poetry, would perhaps have preferred his poetry to have taken precedence over his plays, and his prose often has the compression and musicality of poetry, what he calls the "question of rhythm".
(14) The digestive system of the Ophryoscolescides includes different parts : the adoral ciliary zone, the cytostome, the oesophagus, the endoplasm, the rectum and the anus.
(15) How would you describe a person with an adoring sister and admiring father creating a child despised by father and siblings?
(16) While his political allegiances led to the ransacking of his office in 1965, following the coup d'etat the year before that brought the military to power under General Castelo Branco, Niemeyer remained a well known and popular figure among ordinary Brazilians, to whom he was always "Oscar", and evidently adored, although younger generations of Brazilian architects have inevitably felt hidden in his shadow.
(17) Gentile da Fabriano (d 1427) in his Adoration of the Kings, demonstrates a similar response of toe extension in the infant Jesus when one of the Magi kisses the baby's foot.
(18) Babyhood lasts for so little time that I am happy to take the route nature intended and feed my children without using formula and the look of adoration from your baby is worth it.
(19) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(20) Marr may have copped flak, but the incident was an early example of how Cameron – an old Etonian who also professes to adore the Jam's coruscating The Eton Rifles – can be light on detail.
Loveliness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being lovely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Melanie Wilson and Abigail Conway return with their cinema experience Every Minute Always and Coney offers the experience of The Loveliness Principle.
(2) Its villages, many of which are miles from any road, look like they’ve been painted by a 19th century Romantic artist whose vision was blurred by the tears in his eyes at the sheer loveliness of the scene.
(3) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian The point of this area of Dorset is its peerless loveliness.
(4) I have lived in the middle of the carnival route for 12 years now and going by my wholly unscientific observation, the carnival is one of the lovelier forms of cultural cross-pollination.
(5) Yet something we were acutely aware of was the individuals that made up the company, and I don't think I've met a lovelier bunch of people.
(6) "I met George on and off down the years and you couldn't meet a lovelier person.
(7) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
(8) We've also had Janet Street-Porter hiking up and down the land, wondering aloud, in a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger, godmotherish sort of way, why anyone would want to uncouple themself from the loveliness of the union.
(9) Tavira is slightly the victim of its own elegant loveliness: eating places abound, as do visitors.
(10) Wayne Koestenbaum explains in his book The Queen’s Throat how he loves Maria Callas above all because she made mistakes and “seemed to value expressivity over loveliness”.
(11) This is the English countryside in all its May-time loveliness – which the viewer actually watches months later, as they contemplate damp September – to be admired through lovingly filmed heads of cow parsley nodding under the weight of spring raindrops, or via long shots of fields of buttercups.
(12) "He's still a cheeky little sod, but he's definitely just a nicer, lovelier little boy and we're not walking on eggshells with him any more," says Michelle.
(13) Nowhere is this lovelier than the Paseo del Río (River Walk), cobble and flagstone paths that extend for 21 blocks (almost three miles) along the San Antonio river.
(14) 01492 818198, spaceboutique.co.uk ENGLAND Pier Hotel, Harwich, Essex You couldn't get a better picture of marine loveliness than the white and blue facade of this quayside hotel, built in the 1850s.
(15) It is scrawly coloured pencil drawings, funny questions, tousled hair and the loveliness of a sleeping toddler.
(16) 4: A final celebration of nature The loveliness of the trees and grass, the sky's blue clouds, give reality to a mythological scene.
(17) Stars with style Brad Pitt Born Shawnee, Oklahoma, US Age 41 Career highlights Johnny Suede, Fight Club, Ocean's 11 Career lowlights Seven Years in Tibet, Meet Joe Black Why he matters 'He combines the matinee idol looks of Gary Cooper with the sex symbol loveliness of Marilyn Monroe' Frank Gehry Born Toronto, Canada Age 76 Career highlights Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; Walt Disney concert hall, Los Angeles Career lowlights Experience Music Project, Seattle Why he matters 'One of the most prominent contemporary American architects with his open, curvilinear, diverse and sometimes playful west coast style'.
(18) I hope I will do at some point.” This moment of reflection is all the lovelier for being entirely unsolicited.
(19) Mr Macron’s speech was full of French pride, with successive appeals to France’s scenic loveliness, great history and human achievements.
(20) We'd be completely astounded, but somehow the beauty of the moment would surpass even the loveliness of where we were and what we were doing."