(1) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
(2) Several investigators have used the Brier index to measure the predictive accuracy of a set of medical judgments; the Brier scores of different raters who have evaluated the same patients provides a measure of relative accuracy.
(3) • Richard David Briers, actor, born 14 January 1934; died 17 February 2013
(4) The integrated method significantly improved the quality of the physicians' judgments as measured by calibration curves and Brier scores, and increased the level of agreement between the physicians' judgments and those made by the clinical prediction rule.
(5) Briers, always the most modest and self-deprecating of actors, and the sweetest of men, relished the review, happy to claim a place in the light comedians' gallery of his knighted idols Charles Hawtrey, Gerald du Maurier and Noël Coward.
(6) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(7) I have a cherished recollection of meeting Briers when he played the second-string theatre critic, Moon, in Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound in 1968 .
(8) Peter Egan, who starred opposite Richard Briers (and Downton's Penelope Wilton) in BBC1 sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles, will also return in the new series, as Lord Flintshire.
(9) Stephen Fry, who worked with Briers in the 1992 film Peter's Friends, said on Twitter: "Oh no, I've just heard the news that Richard Briers has died.
(10) A simple average of the residents' and fellows' judgments was slightly but significantly more reliable by calibration curve and by Brier score, 0.117, and as discriminating (ROC area = 0.85, SE = 0.03) as the attending physicians' judgments.
(11) Ricky Gervais tweeted: "RIP the wonderful Richard Briers."
(12) Richard Briers on location for the BBC's Monarch of the Glen.
(13) • Richard Briers is honorary vice-president of the Parkinson's Disease Society and will be reading at the charity's annual concert at Central Hall, Westminster, on December 10.
(14) Kenith Trodd, the veteran television drama producer, said Briers' successes in popular sitcoms belied his talents as a serious actor.
(15) The Expert System's discriminatory ability in probabilistic prediction, assessed by a method based on continuous functions of the diagnostic probabilities (Brier score) was good.
(16) In classic Briers fashion, he entered beaming with a cup of cocoa at entirely the wrong moment.
(17) However, such comparisons may be difficult to interpret because of the lack of a statistical test for differentiating between two Brier scores.
(18) When he played Hamlet as a young man, Richard Briers , who has died aged 79 after suffering from a lung condition, said he was the first Prince of Denmark to give the audience half an hour in the pub afterwards.
(19) While doing his national service with the RAF, Briers attended evening classes in drama.
(20) We suggest that the proposed method can provide a useful tool for investigators using the Brier index to compare how well clinicians express uncertainty using probability judgments.
Thorny
Definition:
(superl.) Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
(superl.) Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thorny issues of racism on the catwalk, of the impact of fashion on our relationship with food, of the decreasing relevance of the traditional catwalk show in the digital age, and of the bloated size of the fashion industry are the topics engrossing the front row.
(2) And ICMP, as it says in its mandate, "provides assistance to governments", so some sort of post-conflict administration would have to be in place in Syria to request help in dealing with the thorny issue of missing persons.
(3) Implementing real joint working VODG chairman Bill Mumford: " How well CCGs and the NHS works with other stakeholders to try and deliver change – together with local authorities and the third and private sector – is a thorny issue.
(4) Unless a replacement guarantee is in place when Britain quits the EU, this could be frozen, she said, adding: “These rights need to be settled before the triggering of article 50 .” Healthcare is another thorny issue with different systems across the continent.
(5) It’s almost like an 80s movie or something – the kind that studios don’t make anymore.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest There is a definite Big Chill vibe to Don’t Think Twice, a comedy that explores the thorny rifts between friends when one person’s newfound success threatens to alienate the group.
(6) The role of the chair is critical in avoiding these sorts of behind the scenes deals and ensuring that thorny issues are aired and treated with due care.
(7) At the same time the red cells became crenated and developed thorny spicules (echinocytes).
(8) 10 Privacy issues loom large There are two thorny issues around lifelogging: your privacy, and that of others.
(9) We kept them at bay.” And when people ask about thorny issues such as Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg’s reversal on tuition fees?
(10) It was not the supposed imminent collapse of the Syrian regime that dominated the recent meeting of the Friends of Syria in Marrakech but the thorny subject of al-Nusra, one of the armed resistance groups operating in the country, which the US has just classified as a "foreign terrorist organisation" .
(11) It may be that a solution to these thorny problems arises from consultation but on the evidence of the draft bill they are not the government's priority.
(12) The thorny issue of local authority role and oversight was pushed back on to a review by one of his predecessors, David Blunkett, with a strong endorsement for tougher regulation of admissions.
(13) On another thorny issue – the cost of travelling into Wales via the Severn bridges – the manifesto says it will support the UK government’s commitment to halve tolls on the crossings.
(14) Once there, they dispersed among the thorny trees looking for patches of sunken ground which suggested something lay buried beneath.
(15) One category, termed short-shaft pyramidal neurons, is characterized by short apical shafts, a large number of thorny excrescences, and densely branched apical and basilar trees.
(16) It signals US displeasure but stops short of a full-blown boycott that could escalate tensions with the Kremlin, at a time when Washington still badly needs Moscow's help on Syria, Iran and other thorny international problems.
(17) But there are thorny issues here which, as Goat grow in prominence, they can no longer ignore.
(18) In conclusion, gamma-ray irradiation destroys the majority of granule cells and induces a reduction in the development of thorny excrescences.
(19) The islands are mainly composed of star-shaped nerve cells with thorny dendrites and an axon extending into the white matter.
(20) But talks have advanced to the make-up of his back-room team at Anfield – his former Dortmund assistant, Zeljko Buvac, and analyst, Peter Krawietz – and the thorny issue of Liverpool’s transfer committee has not discouraged Klopp from wanting the job.