(n.) One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(2) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(3) For Tóibín, it is the third time on the Booker shortlist following The Blackwater Lightship in 1999 and The Master in 2004.
(4) No: what people really objected to – again, see the Man Booker forum – was not the genre but the quality.
(5) The list of organisations to which he was prepared to give precious time was impressive, and included the Booker Prize management committee, the British Association for American Studies, the SDP arts policy committee, the Eastern Arts Association, the King's Lynn literary festival and the Norwich festival.
(6) "I don't want the Booker prize, so I'll take the cabinet minister," before adding, "but if they gave me a choice between having a movie made [out of one of her books] and being a cabinet minister, I'd take having the movie made."
(7) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
(8) Just right there, in this moment of embarrassing, unhinged, painfully real comic outrage in Portnoy's Complaint, the novel that made Roth famous in 1969, you have the reason why Booker judge Carmen Callil is profoundly wrong to object to Roth getting the International Booker prize – she has withdrawn from the three-person jury over the choice which the other two, male, judges were dead set on.
(9) One of the strengths of the Booker prior to its international revamp was that it showcased writers from the Commonwealth, introducing these authors to new and larger audiences, much like the Caine prize.
(10) I’m all about Google Glass, mate b) Download the best-reviewed book from that week’s New Review c) Dust off that Booker winner from a few years back d) Brideshead.
(11) John Arnold and Marc Leder have both given to Cory Booker, Joe Kennedy, and others.
(12) The Australian author Richard Flanagan has been included on the 13-strong longlist for the 2014 Man Booker prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
(13) Gordimer won the Booker Prize in 1974 for The Conservationist, a novel about a white South African who loses everything, and the Nobel Prize in 1991, when apartheid was in its death throes.
(14) Booker, a former HSBC executive, started last week.
(15) In choosing to give the award to a man who is regularly described as the father of modern African literature, the judges have signalled that this new global Booker has achieved the status of an authentic world award in only its second contest.
(16) Dennis Holt, the bank’s chairman, said: “Following the appointment of Liam Coleman as deputy chief executive on 3 May 2016, I am pleased to confirm that Liam will succeed Niall Booker as chief executive, subject to regulatory approval, when Niall’s contract with the bank expires on 31 December 2016 following a planned handover during the fourth quarter of 2016.” The number of current accounts held at the bank fell to 1.422m at the end of June, from 1.43m a year earlier.
(17) Granta is rushing out 100,000 extra copies of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries to capitalise on the first Booker prize win for the publishing house.
(18) "Just imagine what people would say if the Booker released a shortlist with only women.
(19) The half of the Booker money that he didn’t give to the Black Panthers he spent on putting together, with Mohr again, a book called A Seventh Man (1975).
(20) Hisham Matar is author of In the Country of Men, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Looker
Definition:
(n.) One who looks.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s no longer a big ticket item – it’s cheaper than Uber,” says Nigel McMinn, manager director of Lookers, which runs 153 car dealerships across the UK.
(2) Inverdale provoked outrage when he said that women's champion Marion Bartoli was "never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova so you have to be scrappy and fight?
(3) Lookers, which sells nearly 120,000 new and used vehicles a year, said pre-tax profits surged 38% to £38m in the six months to June, with sales up 29% to £1.6bn.
(4) The BBC’s John Inverdale took a long time to recover from his clumsy observation during Wimbledon in 2013 that Marion Bartoli, who eventually won the title, was “no looker”.
(5) For right and left lookers, the phenomenon of shorter latency of retrieval on a verbal task when looking toward the right was found when encoding and retrieval points were different, [F(1,35) = 15 16, p less than .001], but not when they were the same [F(1,35) = .36, N.S.].
(6) The BBC has received almost 700 complaints in the hours after the veteran Inverdale said Bartoli "was never going to be a looker" on Radio 5 Live ahead of the game.
(7) The acquaintance of subject and looker as well as the depth of gaze affected male subjects' judgments of a female assistant's looking behavior.
(8) The global task was easier than the featural task, but as the amount of time allotted for infants to solve either type of task was decreased, short lookers' performance was superior to that of long lookers.
(9) "She's not a looker," says Ruby rather sweetly about her effort.
(10) The BBC was forced to apologise after Inverdale, speaking before Bartoli's match against Sabine Lisicki, told listeners of Radio 5 Live: "Do you think Bartoli's dad told her when she was little: 'You're never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight'?"
(11) 4 experiments tested the possibility of whether short lookers' superiority on perceptual-cognitive tasks is attributable to attention to the featural details of visual stimuli, or simply to differences in the speed or efficiency of visual processing.
(12) The details described characterize a medical care system which still nowadays demands the respect of the modern lookers-on.
(13) Logan's comments come at a sensitive time for the corporation in the wake of presenter John Inverdale's remarks about Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli, saying she was "never going to be a looker" .
(14) Inverdale told listeners: "Do you think Bartoli's dad told her when she was little: 'You're never going to be a looker, you'll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight'?
(15) Illustration: Davies review The companies in the FTSE 350 with all-male boards were named as Allied Minds, Centamin, Deajan Holdings, HellermannTyton Group, Nostrum Oil and Gas, Perpetual Income and Growth Investment Trust, Telecom Plus, Wizz Air Holdings, Al Noor Hospitals Group, Clarkson, Genus, Lookers, P2P Global Investments, Scottish Investment Trust, and Tritax Big Box Reit.
(16) "Do you think," he mused moronically, "Bartoli's dad told her when she was little, 'You're never going to be a looker, you'll never be a [Maria] Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight'?"
(17) This might be an awkward moment for John Inverdale as Simon Burnton pointed out in his blog: Sports Personality of the Year: time to applaud the antiheroes of 2013 One thing that's absolutely certain is that the BBC 's John Inverdale , who controversially announced in July that the Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli was "never going to be a looker" , isn't going to be invited to the cool parties.
(18) If that should give any woman reluctant to describe herself as a feminist pause for thought, the naff exchanges between Gray and the reporter Andy Burton about whether the "lino" was "a looker" suggests discrimination in Sky's football department may have spread way beyond two middle-aged dinosaurs.
(19) I mean, she's not much of a looker, but she didn't need to stoop that low.
(20) However, a spokesman said: “We did launch the Range Rover Td6 and Range Rover Sport Td6 in late September as planned and while it is too early to tell what, if any, long-term impact there will be on the US market, we are pleased with the early sales.” In the UK, one major car dealership, Lookers, reported continuing profit growth on Friday, leading the City analysts at Peel Hunt to conclude: “While some suggested that the VW crisis would have a major impact on the motor trade, [this] suggests that its progress remains strong ... the VW nerves are now soothed.” The shareholders VW shares lost around one-third of their value in the first two days of trading after news of the scandal broke, and remain at roughly the same level now.