(n.) A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was suffering from Pick's astrophy, the first signs of which appeared in 1923 and 1927 and which were probably already reflected in the stereotypy of the "Bolero" of 1928.
(2) A post shared by Vanity Fair (@vanityfair) on Feb 28, 2017 at 10:02am PST The photo shoot, by the acclaimed fashion photographer Tim Walker, showed Watson in an open, white crocheted bolero jacket with no bra or shirt underneath.
(3) By the "Bolero" of Ravel and "symphony in C major" of Mozart the minute-rhythmic coupling degree (fraction of the frequency synchronizations of the modulating oscillations of neurovegetative functions in a definite frequency range), which was calculated by means of autocorrelation, is increased significantly to silents intervals and decreased by the oratorium "Dies Irae" of Penderecki.
(4) Amid the crooning boleros, swivelling hips, and Cumbia beats, it was a stark moment of political protest that stole the show at this year’s Latin Grammy awards.
(5) The in vitro S-oxygenation of thiobencarb (Bolero; p-chlorobenzyl N,N-diethylthiocarbamate) in the presence of hepatic microsomes from freshwater- and seawater-adapted striped bass was investigated.
(6) As Lady Kay says on her blog: "It may not sound very long, but believe me, from Bambi to Bolero in 12 weeks is a tall order for anybody, not least a newsreader whose only previous experience of ice was cubed in a gin and tonic."
Matador
Definition:
(n.) The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights.
(n.) In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one.
Example Sentences:
(1) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
(2) Photograph: Rex Features On arrival in Brussels last week, Renzi was greeted by Angela Merkel as "the matador".
(3) As dusk fell in the Catalan capital, sequin-clad local matador Serafín Marín dispatched the last of six bulls on the sand of the packed La Monumental bullring – where touts had been offering tickets at eight times their original price.
(4) The odds of the game may be stacked against the Tories, but the bloodied bull keeps charging and it is the nervous matador who is gored.
(5) Once you just open your mind to not knowing how it will turn out and just be like a receptor to the whole thing, eventually, hopefully, it will be OK." Wakin On A Pretty Daze is Vile's second album for major indie label Matador, who released Smoke Ring For My Halo, and in style and format (the shortest song here is nearly six minutes long; the longest, over 17) it sounds very much like an artist seeking to reassert his identity.
(6) I knew nothing about the rules and intricacies of the sport so all I saw were crowds of well-fed, well-dressed people baying for blood, roaring and cheering at the sight of pain and demanding more of it as picadors on horses and a matador in a brilliant costume ritually tormented and tortured a bull.
(7) The quote from Cobi was this: ‘I don’t have to put balls in the air or send crosses to Hermosillo because I am a striker myself.’ That headline was in La Opinion: ‘I am a striker myself.’ The last was Luis Hernandez, a forward with flowing blond hair and the nickname El Matador .
(8) Wakin On A Pretty Daze is out in the UK on 8 Apr on Matador.
(9) Most meet their death when a sequin-suited matador finally thrusts a sword into their neck.
(10) Darcey wants more arm curve to make him a "more convincing space matador".
(11) In 2005’s The Matador he was a drunken, well-past-it hitman, though the wrinkles and crows-feet were already tightening in 1999’s The Thomas Crown Affair .
(12) Horseback bullfights had been popular in medieval times, but in 1726 matador Francisco Romero began fighting on foot with a cape and a sword – sparking a new fashion.
(13) A kind of unshaven, post-watershed, post-divorce and redundancy Johnny Bravo whose style inspiration sits somewhere between matador and gimp.
(14) 7.33pm GMT Bruno thought it was more space cadet than matador, and I couldn't agree more.
(15) Ceepak Chopra (@SoNotLightSkin) Who the hell let this little matador sing the national anthem ?
(16) Something Good is about "the death of a matador as an analogy for the slow mending of a broken heart through fun distractions".
(17) Pierce Brosnan's washed-up hitman in The Matador is forever ill-shaven, often calamitously drunk and bereft of discretion.
(18) That is not the fashionable view, not least because the opposition leader makes an unlikely matador.
(19) Which is why Sky Germany advertised their coverage of this week's return legs with a not-too-subtle short clip about a matador.
(20) As actor-manager, Gassman had continued to choose appealing roles, but, after a successful season appearing in Irma La Douce in 1959, and, in the same year, winning national popularity by exploiting his over-the-top versatility on a television series, Il Mattatore (something between "matador" and "madman"), he decided the time had come to launch a long-cherished project, his Teatro Popolare Italiano (TPI), which made him one of Italian television's first nationwide stars.