(1) Alex Neil’s side belied their newly promoted status with a calm, poised assurance and incision, epitomised by Robbie Brady and the excellent Nathan Redmond.
(2) The results returned on Saturday night belie the weeks of derailed campaigning and defensive strategy from the National party.
(3) I’ll do some comedy about my dog.’” This complacent image is belied by the level of detail in the new show, and in her work as one half (with Ellie White) of the Sexy American Girls Family, who appeared in Edinburgh in the Invisible Dot Circus .
(4) But the simplicity of the ruleset belies the astonishing complexity that the game can demonstrate.
(5) Lu, who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisals, has a short bob haircut, a round face and soft, lilting voice that belies an undercurrent of outrage.
(6) They say you cannot please everyone, but referee Michael Oliver succeeded in pleasing neither Roberto Martínez nor Garry Monk in this feisty encounter which belied the mid-table comfort Everton and Swansea currently enjoy.
(7) There was a sharpness about them that belied their recent poor run on their travels, with defeats at both Bournemouth and Watford preceding this.
(8) Their performances at the Games belie this deep-rooted problem: 15 of India's 38 gold medals were won by women, including that of the discus thrower Krishna Poonia, who achieved the country's first Commonwealth athletics gold for 52 years.
(9) (To argue that the presence of sloppy, boiling-hot calzones belies their sandwich nature is a debate on elaboration, not intention, like saying that a leaky building proves that buildings are not a form of shelter.)
(10) The Queen's perma-grimace belied her true feelings.
(11) Cheney has been a creature of Washington since 1969, a 44-year streak whose very length belies any inclination toward insurrection, much less any sort of change.
(12) The argument that this was a vote about “economic” issues – since the hated European migrants were not brown or black – is belied by the deliberate commingling of every type of foreigner.
(13) With access to and from the building very tightly controlled, and the street outside the building closed to all traffic, the muted atmosphere belied the occasion.
(14) Rashard Bradshaw is Cakes Da Killa , the puppy-faced new kid on the block whose sound is decidedly more straight-up hip-hop than many of his peers, and his humble disposition belies his solid flow.
(15) Everything about the project belied this pessimism.
(16) SPLI and BELI levels, acetylcholinesterase activity, and total protein content were determined by radioimmunoassay, a colorimetric method, and by the method of Lowry et al.
(17) But the latest hair-brained pre-election housing policy emanating from the mouth of work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith seems to belie a fundamental misunderstanding of that fact.
(18) Leeds allowed José Manuel Casado’s corner to bounce and Ameobi drilled Bolton ahead with a confidence that belied his 17-month wait.
(19) De Maizière seems convinced Washington's rhetoric belies its need to keep a firm, if expensive, foothold in Europe.
(20) There is much to like about Blount, whose 235lb frame and physical style belie his explosive acceleration.
Boyish
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.
Example Sentences:
(1) But if Salazar looks boyish then it's because he is in fact a boy.
(2) The effect is of someone with a boyish energy who has had too many Cokes, but even on bad days, says Fox, "I don't care.
(3) She likes the boyishness and the immaturity of the guy she fell in love with, but that's balanced against this higher need to have him get his shit together and be a man.
(4) Alexander Stubb, Finland’s boyish-looking conservative prime minister, agreed on the need to keep things calm.
(5) You're innocently browsing an apparently useful website and see a link to something else that might be of interest, but when you click through to that destination you instead find yourself confronted with Astley's boyish smile , his manly croon, his awkward 1987 dance-moves.
(6) Fox is still as boyishly handsome as he was when he appeared in Back to the Future at the age of 24, and the voice is the same one that once begged Doc Brown to return him to 1985.
(7) What never disappeared was the almost boyish enthusiasm he brought to writing and making music Yet every so often Maxwell Davies could still produce a work that was startlingly effective, and which in its own way carried as much impact as any of the earlier scores.
(8) I couldn’t even get close.” Sandi Toksvig The presenter who quit Radio 4’s The News Quiz to launch her own political party might be an offbeat choice – but she could help balance Evans’ boyishness.
(9) He's wonderfully boyish and can be charming – when he flashes a smile, everybody melts.
(10) People described me as a boyish girl – rather shy, but I didn't show it.
(11) It made a most enduring impression upon my boyish mind which was my very first impulse to choosing chorea as my virgin contribution to medical lore.
(12) But it seemed companies didn't take too kindly to a gay Indian girl with a penchant for dressing boyishly.
(13) In Trump, we have a major presidential candidate who doesn’t just parse words, conceal facts, or shade the truth, but constantly tells big blatant lies .” In person Mikkelson, 56, is boyish, with a toothy smile and shy demeanour.
(14) When Lowther asked what was the matter, the answer was: "It's boyish."
(15) Marty has an apple-cheeked girlfriend (Claudia Wells), is a boyishly good-looking dude, but he comes from duff stock: mum Lorraine (Lea Thompson) is an alcoholic and dad George (Crispin Glover) is a weed, perpetually bullied by his former high-school tormentor, now boss, Biff (Thomas Wilson).
(16) If I had some other job, I could spend time with my children, relax, go to the market.” It is mid-afternoon and Singh, with a round face and boyish sweetness in his eyes, has not been home since last night; grey stubble covers his cheeks and chin.
(17) At 43, he still looked boyish, with his questioning eyes, a thatch of hair and diffident mumbles.
(18) What never disappeared, either, was the almost boyish enthusiasm Maxwell Davies brought to writing and making music, and to his involvement with those performing it.
(19) Both men and women thought him good-looking, and he retained a boyish air.
(20) Such foes were baffled by the boyish camaraderie of old Fleet Street, not to say its tradition of ecumenical friendship: before he had a London flat of his own, Waugh used to stay with his great friend Paul Foot.