(n.) The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kafka's faceless and amoral heroes, on the other hand, inspire no sympathy at all.
(2) Amor Almagro, spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan, said: "There have been several meetings between the government of Sudan and the Tripartite on the implementation of the MoU, but so far access has not been granted for us to carry out an assessment and deliver much needed food assistance in areas held by the SPLM-N. "We remain concerned about the ongoing conflict and insecurity, which has hampered our ability to reach all those in need of food assistance."
(3) Nothing substantial altered in the world, and the wild, amoral capitalism that developed from his Hayek-inspired economic vision created wealth for some, but otherwise had no respect for the homes or jobs of Powell’s followers, nor for the other things he cared about – tradition, national borders, patriotism or religion.
(4) This is a party on its way to becoming a multinational libertarian sect, whose preoccupations are no longer those either of much of its electorate or of the business community – wrestling with how genuinely to innovate, invest and motivate workforces in a world of increasingly amoral, ownerless companies so beloved and promoted by the sect.
(5) Tommy from Vice City is a cackling psychopath, and CJ from San Andreas merely rides the acquisitionist philosophy of hip-hop culture to terminal amorality.
(6) When Hall became amorous for a second time, she made it clear she wanted nothing to do with him, gathered her things and headed towards her room.
(7) Among them was Amor Masovic, the chairman of the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, the man entrusted by the state with the endless task of accounting for the dead.
(8) Based on a script by Oscar-nominated writer Beau Willimon, it was to be a remake the 1990 BBC series House of Cards, and would star Kevin Spacey as an amoral US senator.
(9) Amphotericin B (Amph B), 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC), ketoconazole (KTZ), fluconazole (FLZ), amorolfine (AMOR) and terbinafine (TER) were tested against 3 agents of central nervous system phaeohyphomycosis in vitro and in life-threatening infections in mice.
(10) Villains who are also heroes, amoral manipulators whose goals may ultimately be honourable: it's hard to talk of such things with Cranston for long without circling back to Walter White, possibly the darkest and most morally ambiguous protagonist in television history.
(11) But now that the Thatcherite alternative has failed just as completely with a broken, amoral banking system, those 1960s and 70s struggles seem less futile.
(12) The film itself has a similar feel: relentlessly entertaining but brazenly, outrageously amoral.
(13) Church of England calls for 'fresh moral vision' in British politics Read more The prime minister, whose government has clashed with the Church of England over the direction and severity of policy, said the changes it had made since the last election should likewise not be seen as “amoral”.
(14) Released in 1935, it chronicles the musical and amorous adventures of two young men who put on a cabaret for tourists in the Morro da Providência , the hill near the port area of Rio de Janeiro, which, 40 years earlier, had become Brazil’s first favela.
(15) The Telegraph's religion editor and Church of England priest George Pitcher has described him as personifying "the new amorality of avaricious, red-top, vulgar New Britain".
(16) It will be the latest improbable chapter in the life story of a man raised as an Eisenhower Republican, who fought as a patriot in Vietnam and made his name in Hollywood writing such splashy, amoral screenplays as Scarface for Al Pacino, before becoming an Oscar-winning, Chávez-admiring Buddhist whom the Observer described as "one of the few committed men of the left working in mainstream American cinema" .
(17) Samir Ben Amor is also concerned that, despite promises from the government, the exact wording of the amnesty law has yet to be released.
(18) The revitalisation of Guillermo Amor’s side as genuine premiership contenders gathered further momentum at AAMI Park.
(19) Among Brazilian film buffs and cultural historians, the film Favela dos Meus Amores has gained cult-like status.
(20) Human- and snail-related aspects of the transmission of schistosomiasis mansoni was studied in the Amor Parish community located at the western bank of the River Nile in the Nebbi District, north-western Uganda.
Leer
Definition:
(v. t.) To learn.
(a.) Empty; destitute; wanting
(a.) Empty of contents.
(a.) Destitute of a rider; and hence, led, not ridden; as, a leer horse.
(a.) Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.
(n.) An oven in which glassware is annealed.
(n.) The cheek.
(n.) Complexion; aspect; appearance.
(n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion.
(v. i.) To look with a leer; to look askance with a suggestive expression, as of hatred, contempt, lust, etc. ; to cast a sidelong lustful or malign look.
(v. t.) To entice with a leer, or leers; as, to leer a man to ruin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our next priority is to ensure that patients in need of post-operative care and follow-up are flown to our larger MSF projects in Lankien, Nasir and Leer.
(2) They might have been even more shaken had they known that the men in casual clothes handing them these strange, badly set little pamphlets – with their funereal black borders and another death’s head leering at them inside next to the smirking wish “Good luck” – were members of New York’s police forces.
(3) He would think nothing of driving around in his van, leering at girls in school uniforms and shouting abuse after them, said one former partner.
(4) There it’s much less clear who is actually in charge.” NGOs that attempted to stay in Leer despite the fighting could do little for the population.
(5) "Make as much noise as yer like," he continues, leeringly, over the incessant crraaang of the mechanised looms.
(6) Zevon gives a ferocious leer, flashing two rows of evenly spaced, impossibly white teeth.
(7) [The war has] taken a different turn this year.” During April-September government offensives, “at least 1,000 civilians were killed, 1,300 women and girls were raped, and 1,600 women and children were abducted in Leer, Mayendit and Koch counties”, according to estimates in a recent circular to charities working on civilian protection.
(8) If the accusations are true, Lord Rennard's gropings will be all too familiar to women everywhere, harried by grimy colleagues fondling, pinching, leering, and pretending women can't take a joke if they complain.
(9) As we see from the secret cameras, this isn't so much seduction as leering at intoxicated women until they finally relent and reel off a phone number, something that happens with depressing frequency.
(10) As ugly as its stupid sponsored name, this thing's going to leer over the Olympic Park and get in the way of the fine views from this side of the river.
(11) In the latest flare-up of fighting, government forces are pushing towards Machar’s hometown of Leer, in Unity state, which is held by his supporters.
(12) My portfolio was basically the trade-off we made for keeping Wilders quiet,” Leers said.
(13) As frontlines swept through Leer, NGO compounds were looted.
(14) Plenty of women watch sport, plenty of men want to watch women's sport and not just because they want to leer at women in bikinis.
(15) Fears of an attack on Leer led the UN and all the NGOs working in the area to withdraw their staff last week.
(16) At the height of Savilegate, the news became a sort of Imax ghost-train ride in which a bleached gargoyle repeatedly leered at you, a rolling news ticker scrolling under his chin like police incident tape stretched hastily into position.
(17) Much of the task of keeping Wilders onside fell to the experienced Christian Democrat Gerd Leers, a fellow Limburger, in the newly created post of minister for immigration.
(18) A scientific study of the success rate indicates that through IVT, reductions of the probability of relapse are achievable, which far exceed even the effectiveness of re-education carried out with fewer problematical cases (e. g. Leer model).
(19) (It features my floating disembodied head as a leering demon).
(20) I came here from the swamp when I heard they were giving out food,” said Leer resident Thomas Riek Makuei.