(1) A man of Ben van Beurden’s power and reputation for blunt speaking is capable of silencing a ballroom packed with his boisterous peers.
(2) In a boisterous session of prime minister's questions, Cameron raised questions over Flowers's suitability to run the bank.
(3) Her childhood - split between a boisterous outdoorsiness and an intense inner life - was dominated by her overbearing mother, with whom she fought "steadily but reluctantly" until her death.
(4) In a rare move, Cannes judges decided to split the jury prize between Mommy , a boisterous Oedipal comedy from Canada's 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, and the abstract, oblique Goodbye to Language from the 83-year-old provocateur Jean-Luc Godard.
(5) Less recognizable than its more boisterous counterpart and in some respects less tangible, this side of the problem of countertransference is no less important.
(6) Brodick's Ormidale Hotel is a boisterous, Camra-recommended pub with homecooked bar food and a large garden.
(7) When she talks about the difference the treatments made in her life, her voice – already cheerful – becomes boisterous.
(8) There are 2.46 million eligible voters who will elect 89 members of parliament after a boisterous nine-day campaign.
(9) A neighbour, the mother of three boisterous boys, left her family to fend for themselves at 8am and did not return until late in the evening.
(10) When he opened the newspapers on Thursday he found that his robust handling of a boisterous budget day had made him a parliamentary superstar in pinstripes.
(11) Was it the boisterous intrusion of her tone, the inexcusability of the phrase "lonely only", or the idea of strapping on skates as a euphemism for – what exactly?
(12) She described the elder Trump as “very, very difficult … loud and boisterous” and someone Trump was eager to impress.
(13) In a format that was three parts talkshow to one part gameshow, the candidates faced probing inquiries as well as random questions pulled from sealed envelopes as they sat almost knee-to-knee with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow in front of a boisterous campus audience.
(14) The crowds are boisterous, desperate even, and the umpire tells them to shut it.
(15) Several attitudes toward this widespread adolescent behaviour are now current--and often in conflict--in our society, including viewing teenage intoxication as a symptom of problem drinking, a warning signal of future alcoholism, a reflection of cultural norms and social changes, and an expression of youthful boisterousness.
(16) Tonight we have made a little bit of history,” the white-haired Sanders said at a podium positioned between Wisconsin and United States flags at the outset of his hourlong speech before a boisterous crowd.
(17) By the end, the boisterous corner of Evertonians were crowing that his job was in danger.
(18) The giant banner unveiled before kickoff on the fondo sur , where Madrid’s most boisterous fans congregate, read: “ Juntos No Hay Imposibles ” (translation: “Together Nothing is Impossible”).
(19) On one side it said “Tired doctors make mistakes” and on the other “New contract – DNR.” The mood at the rally, just off Pall Mall, was defiant, boisterous and determined, though interspersed with noisy chants of “Hunt must go, Hunt must go” and “BMA, BMA, BMA”, in support of the organisation Hunt is trying to separate them from.
(20) There is a sports room, a little boisterous like a dressing room up and down the country.
Obstreperous
Definition:
(a.) Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, lawyers say the prosecution has partly been hamstrung by an obstreperous police force that would prefer to drag its feet than help incriminate its own leaders.
(2) An obstreperous cabinet minister, such as Gordon Brown, can simply tell No 10 they cannot work with a proposed junior.
(3) Meanwhile, its Syrian branch plays a significant (and, some argue, obstreperous) role in the country's ongoing civil war .
(4) Or is the citizen rightfully an unpredictable source of obstreperous demands and assertions of rights?
(5) His antisemitism, his obstreperous nationalistic rants were one side of his personality; his art another.
(6) He could be awkward and obstreperous, and some of his involvement in transfer dealings was murky, but Keshi was, at international level, the finest African coach of his generation and he was fun to be around.
(7) Not too long ago, Chris Christie, the obstreperous governor of New Jersey, liked to tout something he called a "Jersey Comeback".
(8) Rare is the week that passes without the Daily Mail or Daily Telegraph, both keen critics of David Cameron's coalition deal, taking a poke at the energy and climate change secretary as its most obstreperous symbol.
(9) To evaluate the usefulness and reliability of the Caretaker Obstreperous-Behavior Rating Assessment (COBRA), a new test instrument for caretaker assessment of types and severity of "obstreperous behaviors" (OBs) in demented patients.
(10) Even the most obstreperous teenagers showed us their warmth – the head to head interviews with the students helped us to see their humanity and, as the staff did, we liked them and sympathised with them, despite their capacity to behave like Catherine Tate's "Lauren" on occasion.
(11) They say the 24-hour media cycle, that amplifies every trivial misstep and has little patience for complex argument, the Senate voting system that throws up obstreperous upper houses and the negativity of recent oppositions has just made it too tricky to do anything hard.
(12) The world's most famous Luxembourger is now involved in an existential fight for his own political survival: a fight in which he can claim the highest principles of democracy to be on his side against Britain's bullying obstreperousness.
(13) I thought it was pessimistic, he insisted it wasn’t, and when I refused to change my mind he called me an “obstreperous bastard”.
(14) At the centre of it all, driving the economic vortex that is controlling public life, are "The Markets", a merciless, amoral, almost mythical force, behaving with the irrational self-indulgence of a particularly obstreperous Greek god.
(15) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, opens 20 September First Chicago Architecture Biennial A pet project of Rahm Emanuel, the Windy City’s obstreperous mayor, this city-spanning new initiative looks at the state of the building arts in America’s second Gilded Age.