(1) In another time, a pushy, brainy young Norman made his way to Europe's art metropolis: Poussin would make Rome his base until his death 41 years later in 1665.
(2) As members of Bright Young Things (BYT), a tuition agency that specialises in brainy, mainly Oxbridge, graduates, they command up to £70 an hour.
(3) And whoever was education secretary, though always less attractive and sometimes less brainy than the celebrating girls, would be sure to be grinning all over our television screens, claiming the results as a great vindication for him or herself and the government's policies.
(4) Every pub draws the audience it deserves, and Bar Fringe's crowd is an unlikely mix of hairy bikers, bohemian folk, gnarled beer-tickers and brainy students, who leave mystifying, maths-related graffiti in the toilets.
(5) New findings from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission reveal that less academically able children from richer families are 35% more likely to become high earners than their brainy but broke peers.
(6) I love his braininess – his real new career is as an academic economist at Harvard – and his willingness to be a prat in public and the way he and Cooper seem to have worked out how to be a political couple as well as parents.
(7) It is remarkable that the suggestions at the press conference for "direct finance", and for replacing the electronic cash that Threadneedle Street magics up for the banks with "helicopter money" dumped on ordinary citizens, came from the brainy high priests of financial journalism.
(8) Brainy games Concept A game modelled on 20 questions probably shouldn’t be this much fun.
(9) Only time will tell if Žižek is serious about becoming utterly serious, but if he devotes the rest of his brilliant, brainy, slightly bonkers, utterly singular life to Hegel, and Hegel alone, it will be a great gain for pure philosophy and a great loss to radical, risk-taking political theory.
(10) It was the day Miliband's private qualities at last turned into public strengths: not just brainy but funny, likable and an unashamed egalitarian to the core of his being.
(11) David Miliband was deemed "too brainy", Alan Johnson had a "lack of killer instinct" and Harriet Harman was a "policy lightweight but an adept interparty operator".
(12) Although early reviews were mixed, it gave voice to a generation of brainy and disaffected young people, becoming almost a founding myth for an emerging cultural character, the teenager.
(13) Laura Jacobs, New Criterion, 1999 "Forget the theories and watch the movement … That is often the best advice for looking at William Forsythe's brainy, off-center choreography" Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times, 2001 Do say "Do you Derrida or De Man?
(14) A brainy type (he eats Marcel Duchamp, Octavio Paz and Jean Cocteau for breakfast), some of his literary leanings seep into his lyrics, but it's more implied than spelt out.
(15) He was terrifyingly young, very brainy, could discourse knowledgeably about things you would forgive him for being ignorant about.
(16) I never think of Blackadder in the way the Mail puts it, as "increasingly gutless", but rather as a brainy chap with a healthy suspicion of those who would yield up his life for pointless sacrifice.
(17) People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.” Klein admits that even with her reputation for producing brainy economic analysis, and a crack research team to which she gives generous credit in the book and in conversation, it took three years of “marinating” in the material.
(18) You expect him to be quite plain-speaking, quite academic and quite brainy, but actually you can have a laugh with Stephen Hawking .
(19) The book is part memoir, part cultural history and part scientific journey around women's sexuality, the best elements of which illuminate how little women generally know about their own anatomy – a kind of brainy sex manual – the worst of which founders on the kind of academic jargon Wolf is fond of, and that has to be squeezed hard to elicit much meaning.
(20) He has used these for loads of mental brainy things, but I used them for picking colours and in fact still do.
Rainy
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.
Example Sentences:
(1) 54% of patients in the rainy season were ELISA positive for RSV compared to 8.8% during the dry season.
(2) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(3) Acholeplasma laidlawii was frequently isolated from samples both from cows and from farm bulk tanks during wet, rainy weather in the spring of 1978, apparently as contaminants only.
(4) The arts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Portland Art Museum For rainy days – and Portland has its fair share – as well as creative inspiration, Portland Art Museum is a must.
(5) The average number of infective larvae of O. volvulus per infective fly was 2.6 and 2.2 during the rainy and dry seasons respectively.
(6) "Users clearly want the option of being anonymous online and increasingly worry that this is not possible," said Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet Project.
(7) A cross-sectional survey in November, at the end of the rainy season, revealed a point prevalence parasitaemia of 2.0% and a spleen rate of 0.3%.
(8) Of the 22 fungal species isolated, A. flavus and A. parasiticus were the predominant species (63.8%) during the rainy season, followed by other species of Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, Rhizopus, Helminthosporium, and Curvularia.
(9) South Sudan's rainy season has overwhelmed aid efforts in refugee camps sheltering more than 100,000 Sudanese refugees in Maban county, say international aid agencies.
(10) The majority of lesions appeared during the June-October rainy season.
(11) The overall infection rate was found to be around 20% with a distinct peak of acute infections during the rainy season.
(12) Further trouble seems likely, with talk of a “day of rage” on Tuesday and strikes by students at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, but the sudden onset of rainy weather may help to calm the febrile mood.
(13) Studies on Culex pipiens fatigans dispersal were conducted during the hot, cold, rainy, and post-rainy seasons in 2 villages in the Delhi area in order to improve techniques and to determine the optimum time of release.
(14) In the palm grove, transmission was ensured by 2 effective vectors during the rainy season (October to May).
(15) But this El Niño arrives at the end of California’s rainy season and is quite weak, Halpert said.
(16) Most cases of bronchiolitis occurred in outbreaks during the rainy months of August through November, coinciding with respiratory syncytial virus outbreaks.
(17) There are two birth peaks in the year that coincide with the rainy season.
(18) Falling standards of sanitation resulted in the first outbreak of cholera in Lusaka, Zambia, during the rainy season, February 1990.
(19) There is an indication that the winter season is most conducive for the spread of the disease (51.0%), followed by post-monsoon (41.3%), summer (23.1%) and rainy season (11.1%).
(20) Attacks usually occurred in winter and the rainy season.