(1) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
(2) The 'prequel' trilogy, featuring Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side and the much-maligned Jar Jar Binks, was released between 1999 and 2005 but Lucas has developed the franchise far beyond those six original films.
(3) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
(4) I've long suspected a connection between my migraines and thunderstorms, as well as hot, bright weather; but that's nothing compared with Dawn Binks's experience of the links between weather and migraine.
(5) With Abrams having revived Star Trek's fortunes on the big screen (unless one asks hardcore Trekkies), most filmgoers are keenly anticipating a triptych of movies that could consign George Lucas's hapless prequel trilogy to a dustbin filled with the rotting remains of Jar Jar Binks and that guy with the cucumber-shaped forehead from Yoda's Jedi council.
(6) In the spoof commentary, Lucas and the “force ghost” of Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker lament the addition of a new, three-pronged lightsaber and complain about the absence of Jar Jar Binks’ race, the Gungans , in the teaser.
(7) You still owe us big time for introducing us to Jar Jar Binks."
(8) They are characters that could yet become as famous as Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia - or suffer the ignominy of comparisons to Jar Jar Binks and Nute Gunray.
(9) However, all three movies found “success” via the Razzie awards, with wins in the worst supporting actor category for Ahmed Best as bumbling CGI alien Jar Jar Binks, and Hayden Christensen for his portrayal of moody Jedi Anakin Skywalker in both 2002’s Attack of the Clones and 2005’s Revenge of the Sith.
(10) According to tweeters' yakking, the novelist hates everything from "Emoticons, because it takes 600 pages to accurately convey emotion", to puppies, people who hate Jar Jar Binks, and cameras, because "real pictures should be painted".
(11) Ask more about the characters So much prettier in 3D ... A two-dimensional Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace.
(12) The even slower-witted cousin of Jar Jar Binks, who keeps falling over and can only communicate in farts?
(13) Later, like most adult Star Wars fans, I thought the entire Hayden Christensen as a young conflicted D Vader episode was pure garbage, because also Jar Jar Binks.
(14) Honestly, give me Bella and Edward over Jar Jar Binks any day.
(15) He said: “My advice to anyone making a Star Wars movie is there’s more to it than just spaceships ... I’m curious about what happened to Darth Vader’s grandkids.” Asked which Star Wars character he would like to be, Lucas chose Jar Jar Binks, in a clear dig at his critics.
(16) For me, any defence of nearly every Star Wars IP released after The Phantom Menace can be stopped dead in its tracks by uttering the words, "Jar Jar Binks".
(17) When Anthony Daniels told me, ‘Oh my God, I love BB-8!’ I said, ‘We’re going to be OK.’ Because if he’s OK, it’s working.” Is Jar Jar Binks the ultimate Star Wars bad guy?
(18) Will new characters like Poe Dameron and Kylo Ren wash away the bad taste of hated Prequel characters like Jar-Jar Binks and Dexter Jettster?
(19) Simon Binks (@Simon__Binks) #Hull town centre flooding!
(20) They also did not generate the same adoration as the original films, partly because of the introduction of clumsy characters such as the now infamous alien Jar Jar Binks, whose comically thick extraterrestrial accent was condemned as an unintentional stereotype of black people.
Wink
Definition:
(v. i.) To nod; to sleep; to nap.
(v. i.) To shut the eyes quickly; to close the eyelids with a quick motion.
(v. i.) To close and open the eyelids quickly; to nictitate; to blink.
(v. i.) To give a hint by a motion of the eyelids, often those of one eye only.
(v. i.) To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at.
(v. i.) To be dim and flicker; as, the light winks.
(v. t.) To cause (the eyes) to wink.
(n.) The act of closing, or closing and opening, the eyelids quickly; hence, the time necessary for such an act; a moment.
(n.) A hint given by shutting the eye with a significant cast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maréchal-Le Pen, who was six months old at the time of the attack, said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed", that her election would be "a wink at history".
(2) His wink-wink, nod-nod racist slogan, “Make America great again,” together with his apocalyptic dirge of a convention, left exposed and unguarded a flank that is usually the Republicans’ specialty.
(3) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
(4) The first case was characterised by a bilateral jaw-winking phenomenon along with an asymmetric bilateral congenital ptosis, whereas the second case had bizarre spontaneous movements of the affected lid, deficient abduction and pseudoptosis in association with jaw-winking.
(5) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
(6) On the way into the ministerial press conference room – the blue room – Abbott gave his characteristic wink.
(7) Since then, several of you have tipped us a wink in the direction of one such man in black who actually did find the net - in a third division game between Barrow AFC and Plymouth Argyle back on November 9 1968.
(8) In England you have the big games but you don’t have el clásico, ” he offered with a wink.
(9) This method eliminates the jaw winking phenomenon as well as lifting the lid.
(10) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
(11) Without nudging and winking, the impression given to the US seems clear enough.
(12) I’m so tortured with guilt and remorse, I haven’t slept a wink in the last 13 years.” 2007.
(13) He laughs and winks: “And we gave up sitting in pubs for three or four hours a day!
(14) And it may be the sunshine, but he appears to be winking.
(15) Where Heal nodded politely to Wren, Nouvel winks at him cheekily as if saying: "Come on, grandpa; get down with the bling, and get shopping."
(16) When he finally deigned to sit down formally, it was in typically theatrical fashion: after midnight, on a big bed in a five-star suite, the Monte Carlo casino winking beneath our balcony, the ocean sighing behind us.
(17) That’s a specialised form of garden work they’re wanting,” he told me with a wink, and when I still didn’t twig, he explained that Garberville is the capital of Californian marijuana culture.
(18) In a wink to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Whaledump lists as its contact address “Flat 3b, 3 Hans Crescent”, site of the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
(19) In patients with severe Marcus Gunn jaw-winking, ablation of the synkinetic eyelid movement requires surgical removal of a significant portion of the levator complex (muscle and aponeurosis).
(20) Asked who collects these objects, Darrow winks: "People who have money."