(n.) Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors carried out studies on a group of analgetic preparations (morphine, lydol, thylidine, pentazocine and analgine) by the method of D Amour and Smith, using thermic painful stimulation.
(2) Tolmetin sodium produced a significant inhibition of the pain-like response induced by electrical stimulation of tooth pulp of dogs, but showed no effect when the methods of Haffner and D'Amour-Smith were applied to mice.
(3) After a couple of years of winners ( The Tree of Life , Amour ) from directors with both name recognition and modest commercial prospects, we're due another winner that comes with three different types of subtitles, screened that morning of the tight deadline and the accidental hangover.
(4) [Amour] is such a wonderful, marvellous, extraordinary gift,” she said in 2012.
(5) Best foreign-language film The award goes to Amour.
(6) The in vivo antinociceptive activity of HP 736 was found to be comparable to morphine in the modified Haffner's tail clip assay in mice and the D'Amour-Smith tail flick assay in rats.
(7) Or perhaps we could focus on the relationship of Leia and Solo, now married, and there could be a heart-rendingly poignant study of their elderly existence together, rather like Michael Haneke's Amour , but set in space.
(8) She became an emblem of the French New Wave, thanks to her role in Hiroshima Mon Amour, before returning to the Paris stage in the 1970s.
(9) "Continuing from Andrew Fletcher's comforting reassurance that you could be El-Hadji Diouf," writes the elegantly-monickered Leticia L'Amour, "just think: you could also be Paul Burrell, Michael Jackson, One True Voice, Gary Glitter, Glenn Roeder, Geri Halliwell's dog, a Stoke City fan, an estate agent, allergic to cheese, Liam Gallagher's anger management counsellor, Liam Gallagher..." By God, she's right.
(10) The acclaim for Riva and Amour are exceptional in an industry that has always preferred its mainstream stars to be fresh of face, lithe of figure and delivering their lines in English.
(11) Irrespective of which will win, four of them can be categorised, as austere arthouse ( Amour ), the higher whimsy ( Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Life of Pi ), and customary US family angst ( Silver Linings Playbook ).
(12) Little effect was seen when the D'Amour-Smith was used.
(13) Amour is stark and sometimes brutal, as you would expect from a director who specialises in emotional extremity.
(14) With the D'Amour-Smith method, only NSP had a greater effect in SART-stress mice than in normal mice.
(15) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
(16) The 65th Cannes film festival drew to a close with the director Michael Haneke being awarded the Palme d'Or for Amour.
(17) Amour, which stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as an elderly couple struggling to cope after one of them suffers a series of strokes, won universal praise on its premiere at the 65th annual festival last week, and its win was widely thought to be something of a certainty.
(18) He listened impassively as I told him how the climax of Amour had astounded me.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amour Famed in France for her discretion and reserve, Riva, who never married and had no children, kept her final illness private.
(20) I hope it's Amour , a film that is Haneke's most personal and tender, and yet bristles with threat and fear.
Flirtation
Definition:
(n.) Playing at courtship; coquetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) More likely though was that the Foreign Office, which has deep misgivings about the flirtation, would now seek to reassert its control over China policy and cool relations with the world’s second-largest economy.
(2) Before what is bound to be a gossip-fuelled party conference season in which Lib Dem flirtation with Labour (and vice versa) will be added to the mix of plotting, irresistible visions of the future home into view.
(3) They argue it is facing a funding crisis of up to £150m a year because it has embarked on failed business ventures, including an expensive flirtation with digital radio, and spent too much on US imports.
(4) George Osborne’s brief post-referendum flirtation with a low corporation tax regime was ended by his sacking in July.
(5) Often, Hofer’s flirtation with the iconography and language of the National Socialist movement has been far from covert.
(6) Erdogan's regional foreign policy initiatives, his flirtation with Iran, his split with Israel, and his courting of supposedly suspect countries such as Syria have led western commentators to speculate about a "strategic realignment" in Turkish policy, away from the west and Nato and towards the Arab and Muslim worlds, in parallel with the AKP's pursuit of a neo-Islamist agenda at home.
(7) In a blog published on Friday afternoon entitled "My teenage mistakes" , Weldon said his year-long flirtation would have remained the embarrassing stuff of his youth had he not a few years later done what he described as a "dumb thing" and boasted about his past in an Oxford student newspaper.
(8) Only the flirtation between Shirley and Phil offered any comedy.
(9) A controversial Daily Star front page, with the headline "English Defence League to become a political party", was "not a flirtation, but a wake-up call", he insists, and Desmond, whose Jewishness is never far from his thinking, says it would be ridiculous for him to back far-right politics.
(10) James Milner is yet to accept the offer of a new contract and may well use his free agent status to move to a club that can offer more regular first-team starts, and Yaya Touré has begun his annual flirtation with the transfer market via the unsubtle declarations of his agent.
(11) Clegg's shift in affection follows similar flirtation between senior members of his party and Labour, notably Ed Balls, in recent months.
(12) Women waited, made ourselves presentable, and hoped flirtations with the object of our interest would lead to an ask-out.
(13) 8.02pm BST Summary Here's a summary of where things stand: • The president lamented damage from the government shutdown and flirtation with default .
(14) These have been described as including: vanity, 'buzz', flirtation, a sense of power and control and professional advantage during employment within the MPS or to gain future employment elsewhere."
(15) Jonathan Arnott said the fracas placed a cloud over both Woolfe and Hookem: “Surely they can’t now consider that either of them could stand in a leadership contest.” Gerard Batten said he was disappointed Woolfe had left the meeting rather than answer questions over his flirtation with the Conservatives: “A Ukip MEP who is prepared to even discuss defection to another party is not fit to run as leader of Ukip.” Describing Thursday’s incident, Hookem said a meeting of Ukip MEPs had become heated when Woolfe, a contender to replace Diane James as party leader, was asked about his admission he had considered defecting to the Conservatives .
(16) Excerpts from the diary show him to be a liberal-minded man and one fond of the company of young people; and show Betty to be a sprightly young Quakeress, buffeted by emotional conflicts between loyalty to her north-country fiance and her flirtation with young Dr. John Coakley Lettsom.
(17) Policy makers had a brief flirtation with Keynes back in the winter of 2008-09, but are now intent on cutting deficits and balancing budgets.
(18) Updated at 7.14pm BST 6.58pm BST The flirtation with default has inspired some colorful analogies .
(19) Norman is understood to take a dim view of their vocal interference in the chief executive search, and particularly the flirtation with former BSkyB boss Tony Ball.
(20) - and trades favourite Hank moments (his being Kingsley's ill-fated, careerist flirtation with Judaism).