(1) Tartt's American agent, the influential Amanda 'Binky' Urban, has arranged for early publication of The Little Friend in the mainly multilingual Netherlands so that sales there are not immediately undermined by English-language imports.
(2) His latest project sees him teaming up with Binki Shapiro, singer in the Brazilian-inflected pop trio Little Joy .
(3) He sounds like a man on a horse' Binki on Adam Adam Green and Binki Shapiro "Our conversations just sort of turned into each other's writing sessions," Shapiro continues, "It happened very naturally, you know?
(4) Green has described the album as "me writing Binki's break-up record and she writing mine", and throughout, Green's strapping baritone acts as ballast to Shapiro's windblown sweetness.
(5) 'When we started writing, I realised there was something almost goth about her … Something kind of haunted or grave in her delivery' Adam on Binki Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reading this on mobile?
(6) He goes about his morbid business on a horse called Binky, whose hooves throw up sparks on every street cobble.
(7) Colts 0-14 Patriots, 7:19, 1st quarter Brady goes to Blount again, he only picks up a yard, but Brady throws to his Latest Binky in Edelman who bursts into a 25 yard run.
(8) Meanwhile back in London, Proudlock, or Proudcock, is planning a party; Binky or Bonky (or possibly Cheska) is having a driving lesson; someone else is arranging to go for drinks so everyone can meet Ianthe, who's amazing, we're going to love her (I already do); and Ollie – he of the amazing hair – has an announcement to make: he's having it – the hair – cut.
(9) But do give my love to Binky and don't worry about the Nazis.
Pacifier
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
(2) The present study investigated the way that sucking of a pacifier influences gastric secretory and motor functions in connection with tube feeding.
(3) While it’s too early to suppose that President Trump’s attitude won’t change, given his unpredictability, the more emollient tone does appear to be pacifying markets for now.” Analysts also pointed to another reason for the strength in US markets.
(4) To this, add any exposure resulting from pacifier use or from in vivo nitrosation of precursors.
(5) Calves with access to pacifiers sucked other objects more than calves without pacifiers.
(6) The prime minister is hoping that negotiations with Brussels will deliver substantial concessions he hopes will pacify Eurosceptics but the former chancellor dismissed the idea of securing any significant reforms from Brussels.
(7) Users of orthodontic pacifiers had statistically significantly greater overjets, and there was a significantly higher proportion of subjects with open bite in the conventional pacifier group.
(8) Previous austerity measures announced during the socialists' short term in office had failed to pacify markets.
(9) When 16 types of baby-bottle nipples and children's pacifiers were tested recently, relatively high levels of nitramines, nitrosamines, and nitrosatable precursors were found.
(10) Duncan Smith claims: "Too often for those locked in the benefits system, that process of making responsible and positive choices has been skewed – money paid out to pacify them regardless, with no incentive to aspire for a better life.
(11) Memorable examples include his drinking bout with Professor Henry Louis Gates' arresting officer, Sgt Crowley, or his chugging a few bottles while awkwardly bowling to pacify nervous, middle-class white voters in Pennsylvania during the primaries.
(12) In the field Experiment B, nursing staff provided infants with a standard pacifier during alternate intervals in a sequence of four interfeed intervals spanning 12 hr.
(13) Treatment infants were offered a pacifier during and following every tube feeding; control infants received routine care.
(14) Pacifiers or rest were given for 5 minutes following routine caregiving and before each of the first 16 bottle feedings.
(15) But, with some diplomatic cover from China, the Sri Lankan regime emerged to claim to have pacified its island.
(16) But the pacified favelas have had slow progress in health, housing, education and business development — all of which were supposed to follow rapidly after the return of the authorities.
(17) The US fought two fierce and costly battles in Falluja in 2004 and lost almost 200 soldiers without pacifying the rebellious city.
(18) Children with pacifier attachments, on the other hand, were less often rated as securely attached and were more likely to show changes in security classification between 12 and 30 months.
(19) Two typical cases are presented in which the prolonged use of nursing bottle at bedtime and the use of pacifiers dipped into honey are responsible for the development of multi-caries.
(20) Effective strategies to care for these infants included recognizing states and cues, swaddling, use of pacifier, waking to eat, and smaller feedings.