What's the difference between bafta and sculpture?

Bafta


Definition:

  • (n.) A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "This Bafta was won not by me or them but by the production team.
  • (2) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
  • (3) Like 90% of the population, all I knew about him was that he was that bloke who’d worn a dress to the Baftas.
  • (4) ITV stars Ant and Dec also won their first ever Bafta, beating Harry Hill, Stephen Fry and the comedian Michael McIntyre to the entertainment performance gong for I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!.
  • (5) The four-minute video, directed by Bafta award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, seeks to reconstruct the specific force-feeding instructions set out in standard operating guidelines from Guantánamo leaked to al-Jazeera .
  • (6) It remains to be seen what Ross, 49, will do next, although he has said he will continue to host the Bafta film awards, which he presented on BBC1 last month, as well as BBC1's Comic Relief and his regular end of year appearances on Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz of the Year, which is produced by his production company, HotSauce, which also makes his BBC1 show.
  • (7) • The Golden Globe awards take place on 13 January, the Baftas on 10 February and the Academy Awards on 24 February.
  • (8) Life in short Born February 18 1946 Family Wife Christine, twin sons Career : Thomson Newspapers, Cardiff, 1967-69; reporter, Daily Mail, 1969-70; producer, BBC radio, 1970-71; reporter: HTV (West), 1971-72; BBC TV, 1973-76; correspondent, BBC TV: industrial, 1976-77; energy, 1977-79; Scotland, 1979-81; special correspondent and newscaster, 1981-83; Southern Africa, 1983-87; presenter, BBC TV News, 1988-2002; chairman, The Moral Maze Awards RTS TV Journalist of the Year and RTS News Award, 1984; UN Hunger Award, 1984; Bafta News Award, 1985; James Cameron Award, 1988; Science Writer of the Year Award, 1989; Mungo Park Award, RSGS, 1994.
  • (9) The loser So far the 2014 awards race has produced few casualties, with even The Railway Man – which has failed to engage the attention of Oscar and BAFTA voters – powering its way to £4.65m to date.
  • (10) Based on Terry Deary’s children’s publishing franchise, its Python-esque sketches won its numerous Bafta awards and a devoted fanbase among adults as well as younger viewers.
  • (11) He’d been at the Baftas the previous evening, and still had his glitter on.
  • (12) Why not just bite the bullet and say, ‘OK, let’s do a completely different way of funding’ rather than having a switch forced on them by circumstances or legislation.” Armando Iannucci interview: 'We didn't want Alpha Papa to be the equivalent of Holiday on the Buses' Read more Iannucci’s idea, outlined in his Bafta lecture, was for the BBC to aggressively market itself with paid-for subscription abroad – “prostitute itself to blue buggery” – which would help subsidise subscription services in the UK at a lower level than the current licence fee.
  • (13) Pawel Pawlikowski [a Bafta-winning film-maker] was there, and Paul Lee, now the head of ABC in America.
  • (14) Tarantino himself recently told a Bafta audience that the violence and horrific conditions depicted in Django Unchained were nothing compared to the historical reality.
  • (15) Despite Hooper's triumph at the Directors Guild of America awards a month ago , which are generally considered an accurate barometer of the Academy's intentions (only six times in their 63-year history have they not correlated), momentum had seemed to be falling back into the hands of David Fincher, who took both the Golden Globe and the Bafta two weeks ago.
  • (16) Greengrass was speaking before delivering the annual David Lean Lecture at Bafta (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), an honour accorded in previous years to the likes of Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch and Ken Loach.
  • (17) But Thorne’s working life has been spent subverting genres, through his Bafta-winning work on supernatural thriller The Fades and Shane Meadows’s bleak, beautiful coming-of-age miniseries This Is England ’86 and ’88.
  • (18) For the screenplay of their first production, The Angry Silence (1960), Forbes received an Oscar nomination and a Bafta award.
  • (19) June Brown, the favourite to become the first soap actress to win the best actress Bafta for her role as EastEnders' doleful launderette attendant Dot Branning, lost to Anna Maxwell Martin, who won her second Bafta in a row after last year's surprise win for Bleak House.
  • (20) Best of times Winning two Baftas for Last Tango in Halifax in 2013, although it made her wonder why it had taken so long.

Sculpture


Definition:

  • (n.) The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
  • (n.) Carved work modeled of, or cut upon, wood, stone, metal, etc.
  • (v. t.) To form with the chisel on, in, or from, wood, stone, or metal; to carve; to engrave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
  • (2) Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
  • (3) The outer coat turned to be extremely sculptured, presenting as interlaced crests of various height.
  • (4) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
  • (5) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that the variant produced conidia of anomalous size, shape and surface-sculpturing.
  • (6) Pertinent information concerning impression making, sculpturing, coloring, and processing to insure esthetically and functionally accepted prostheses is presented.
  • (7) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
  • (8) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
  • (9) Photographer Jennifer Pattison chose to trace the steps of her own father, who had depression in the past, by photographing objects that he made while rehabilitating, from ceramic pots to sculptures made entirely of feathers.
  • (10) This paper will give evidence of the exact wounds that Pizarro received in his final sword fight, as well as a facial sculpture of the skull now identified as that of the conqueror of Peru.
  • (11) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
  • (12) It is the latest in a series of sculpture commissions to occupy the elegant neoclassical galleries, which stretch back 86 metres from the museum's main entrance on the banks of the Thames.
  • (13) The couple met at Nottingham Polytechnic in 1986, and moved to London in the early Nineties - just as the Young British Artist phenomenon gathered steam and media attention - where Noble studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art .
  • (14) Fay Ballard in her garden with a sculpture JG Ballard made in the early 1960s.
  • (15) While she works on them, the sculptures live in rooms like this for weeks until they are ready.
  • (16) On the contrary, an exquisite haute couture dress - like the ones that Cristóbal Balenciaga created in his 1950s heyday - can look as perfect as a beautiful painting or sculpture.
  • (17) European paintings and sculptures were regularly presented.
  • (18) In the African American neighborhood south of the Midway, Gates gutted a string of condemned buildings and then turned them into sculpture, covertly turning his collectors into patrons of urban renewal .
  • (19) Cleary recounted last week how he and his colleagues instead held their discussions amid the Rodins and Moores in the National Gallery of Australia’s sculpture garden and how he had taken all of the mobile phones from the group and placed them in a bag well away from the discussions.
  • (20) Long-term correction can be accomplished by sculpturing of the involved cusps.

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