(a.) Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
(a.) Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.
(a.) Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The soundtrack is supplied by vinyl rotating on vintage record players, a gumball machine dispenses yellow, black and white gobstoppers, and the room is surveilled by the beady eyes of esoteric taxidermy that includes a peacock in full plume and a splendid Himalayan wild goat grazing among the soft seating.
(2) Beady Eye tracks such as The Roller are, it has to be said, shown up by the former bands' glories, but closing track Bring the Light matches their peaks for sheer verve at least.
(3) Asked by a fan about the possibilities of such a reunion, Gallagher simply said: “What reunion?” However, he did admit to having spent time recently with Beady Eye, the band featuring his former Oasis bandmates, including his brother Liam.
(4) Click to view Beady Eye have issued an update on the condition of the band's guitarist Gem Archer, stating that after suffering severe head trauma on 1 August, he is "expected to make a full recovery over the next few weeks".
(5) It far outsold the debut by most of his former bandmates’ post-Oasis project, Beady Eye.
(6) In the same spirit, Tory strategists are focusing a beady eye on Labour voters who are made uneasy by the rainbow politics of the metropolitan left, of the Stop the War Coalition , of the social networks Corbyn harnessed so brilliantly in the leadership contest.
(7) Some private colleges that have attracted the beady attention of Margaret Hodge’s public accounts committee get more public money in proportion to their turnovers than the London School of Economics, one of our world-class universities.
(8) The world is better for government being kept under the beady-eyed scrutiny of the media and for salient and interesting facts about public espionage being brought into the public domain."
(9) He added that people who thought Beady Eye should be playing stadiums just because of his Oasis success were living in the past.
(10) Although Trump has flip-flopped on abortion and has seemingly softened his perspective on Obamacare , Mike Pence , his beady-eyed running mate, has been vehemently opposed to reproductive rights throughout his political career.
(11) Transduodenal pancreatograms were performed in three patients; one showed a normal pancreatic duct, one showed duct obstruction and in the third patient a beady type of narrowing was found.
(12) As I’m talking to you, his beady eyes are burrowing into my face.
(13) "And if you didn't agree with her, those little, beady eyes would pop right open.
(14) She seems to think that the job of a performer is to be dissected by beady feminist critics rather than to, well, perform – and how is strutting your stuff to 10,000 paying punters a night "avoiding scrutiny"?
(15) No great liberties were taken with my story – although I no longer see that as a criterion – and my only job was to provide the odd grace note to the screenplay while befriending Richard Burton and keeping a beady eye on his alcohol consumption.
(16) The wall, which assumed a beady appearance as digestion proceded, ultimately sloughed off to reveal the furrowed surface of the plasma membrane.
(17) Asked why Beady Eye were playing the Ritz while Williams was playing to tens of thousands, Gallagher told BBC Radio 5 Live they were a "proper live band" but "the bullshit is winning".
(18) "At our first rehearsal, I was certain of it," he says, beady brown eyes glittering.
(19) Salinger certainly kept a beady eye on the commentators.
(20) It's also based on the second-best screenplay by the great thriller writer Eric Ambler (the best was his equally beady-eyed adaptation of The Cruel Sea, five years earlier).
Heady
Definition:
(a.) Willful; rash; precipitate; hurried on by will or passion; ungovernable.
(a.) Apt to affect the head; intoxicating; strong.
(a.) Violent; impetuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britons certainly divided over that strange, heady Diana week in 1997 and again over how to mark the millennium.
(2) But the continued uncertainty over those two World Cups adds a heady new dynamic to the mix and makes that ever more unlikely even at this early stage.
(3) They included Lena Heady (Queen Cersei Lannister), Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Conleth Hill (Lord Varys), Rose Leslie (Ygritte), 17-year-old Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) and 18-year-old Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark).
(4) Primark’s heady pace of expansion has bolstered ABF, which is grappling with lower sugar prices that have reduced profits in its core business.
(5) The cash-strapped firm, which used to be owned by the US private equity group Blackstone, emerged with some 750 homes and 31,000 residents after a period of heady growth over the last decade.
(6) Involves a heady mix of patriotism, folksy childhood memories, at least four moving montage packages and tears.
(7) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(8) Oxfam's Lucy Brinicombe is blogging for the Guardian from Cancún, and here's a bit of her first post : There's an air of uncertainty here, of controlled hope mixed with a hefty dose of pragmatism compared with the heady days before last year's UN climate talks in Copenhagen, where a deadline to secure a fair, safe and legally binding climate deal came – and went.
(9) Whatever the precise facts, a heady cocktail of gender, religion and alleged terrorism feeds into the story of the "white widow", making it likely to provide fodder for tabloid front pages for some time to come.
(10) The decision to shoot in monochrome, which is all too often linked to a photographic nostalgia for the heady days of reportage, is fully justified here.
(11) While white Washington experienced a heady construction and property boom, the population of the District fell from over 700,000 to half a million, while the metropolitan area, with its ring of white suburbs, became one of the wealthiest areas in the US.
(12) Even their characteristic aroma - a heady mix of singed rubber, day-old sweat, urine and Gauloise smoke - has a certain appeal.
(13) Cast your mind back to the heady days after the 1997 election.
(14) A mid an abundance of food and drink, flickering candles and a heady air of altered states,100 or so people in north London’s New Unity church watched John, a mop-haired Irishman in his late 20s, tell the story of how he learned to love through therapy, poetry and ayahuasca.
(15) "Add in ultra-low interest rates, together with the fact that not only is London outside the eurozone but the pound is weak, and you have the perfect ingredients for that heady cocktail – the safe haven investment."
(16) Those heady days may be over (if sentimentally recalled by every retailer in these communities) but cross-border shopping remains a vital source of investment for towns such as Strabane, in the west, where unemployment has historically been among the highest in the UK.
(17) In all the heady talk about changing the constitution to enshrine social rights and find a place for Catalonia, however, it is easy to lose sight of the everyday priorities of many Spaniards.
(18) With its heady media mix of graphic violence and utopian idylls, Isis has sought recruits and supporters who are further down the path toward ideological radicalisation or more inclined by personal disposition toward violence.
(19) The other reaction in South Africa has been one of apathy, partly because all attention is on Mandela, partly because excitement about Obama in Africa has waned since the heady days of 2008.
(20) In 2010 there was nothing much to lighten the hearts of those who had flocked to vote for us in the heady days of 13 years ago.