(1) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
(2) They all abstain from social media for fear of getting embroiled in some brouhaha.
(3) Before it, Koke was sliding into challenges like a nut down the left, nearly starting a minor brouhaha.
(4) 9.16pm BST 57 min: Now Snodgrass and Walcott go in the book for the second-biggest handbag-based brouhaha this week.
(5) Gove's reforms haven't caused the same "brouhaha" as the health reforms, Bell points out.
(6) In all the brouhaha, let's not forget England were on the front foot at the end of the half.
(7) The history of mutual antipathy runs deep and when Wenger said he did not wish to comment on whether he would shake the Chelsea manager’s hand, his expression tightening, the tension this whole brouhaha provokes was palpable.
(8) Three months before the brouhaha over Asterix and the Picts , she slipped quietly into the shops as translator of Eugen Ruge's In Times of Fading Light – the story of three generations of an East German family.
(9) Second, the handful of service companies so often at the centre of these brouhahas – Capita , Serco , G4S – are working honourably to the modern business objective of maximising profit, but they do not necessarily care what this does to the NHS, or to the staff who keep it upright.
(10) I had read the pieces about it I had heard the substance of the brouhaha.
(11) 3.57pm BST In all the commotion on Centre and the row over Lisicki's time-out, I missed the brouhaha at the end of the Lopez-Wawrinka match.
(12) But beyond all the brouhaha about the cost of the contents of her makeup bag, which Jezebel totted up to a whopping $1,977.75 (around £1,290), the most interesting revelation (and the only free tip) is that Kardashian only washes her hair every five days.
(13) "The whole brouhaha has become so complex over what the implications are for John Brennan, and whether the Post has done this for political reasons.
(14) At that time, it wasn't surrounded by all the briefed brouhaha about squatters, but was clearly aimed at Travellers.
(15) 10.47pm: Clarke added that he spent yesterday touring the TV studios because it was "let's face it, a media brouhaha".
(16) Nevertheless, it is my policy to leave no bandwagon unjumped, and so here's my contribution to the unfolding brouhaha.
(17) Recently, without much discussion or brouhaha, railings and barriers disappeared from London's major roads, as part of a programme of "decluttering".
(18) Like many usage controversies, the brouhaha over "like a cigarette should" is a product of grammatical ineptitude and historical ignorance.
(19) QUOTE OF THE WEEK "All these brouhaha and controversies about the World Cup budget were concocted by wicked [journalists] who should have known better and who know the real truth but won't say it as it is.
(20) In the first of two exchanges, I spoke with Crabb on the record via instant messaging before the show went to air (and before all the subsequent brouhaha).
Commotion
Definition:
(n.) Disturbed or violent motion; agitation.
(n.) A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot.
(n.) Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Actinic commotion at the surface of the body is often massive in degree and extent and may be expected to exert a deleterious autoimmune impact on the essential elastic tissues of the arterial system.
(2) Instead the commotion was caused by the hulking figure in the front row who, after Haye had taken the plaudits for his fifth-round stoppage of Chisora, and his beaten opponent had accepted he had been floored by the better man, walked over to the top table and challenged the victor to a fight of their own.
(3) "We heard the commotion downstairs, but they weren't the kind of family to scream and yell," she says.
(4) In the commotion that followed Xiros's escape, Alexandros Giotopoulos, the French-born academic believed to have founded the gang, and Dimitris Koufondinas, its chief hitman, have declared, in letters written from prison, that "17 November is dead".
(5) That was where Tree was dancing in the early hours of 28 June 1969, when he heard and saw a commotion through the archway.
(6) When Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a " selfie " on her smartphone last week, like millions of people do every day, she doubtless had little idea of the commotion that would ensue.
(7) My neighbours (poor things) do not listen to The Archers or they would have known that the commotion they heard was my response to evidence being given by Kirsty Miller at the trial of Helen Titchener.
(8) If they had, there would have been too much commotion.
(9) The incident does not bode well – even if this is not the first time a Golden Dawn MP has caused commotion in the House.
(10) Commotion Wireless may prove to have been presciently named.
(11) But Victoria Square, named after Britain’s long-reigning monarch, has also come to represent something else: a fear of the chaos and commotion that the stranded migrants have brought with them.
(12) Someone was angry enough to drive a cement mixer into the gates of the country's parliament yesterday, but there was much more commotion earlier this month when Tony Blair – an ex-prime minister of a foreign country – came to town .
(13) That was the poachers’ luck.” In the commotion and darkness, the villains made their escape.
(14) Look, Richard says, they never set out to cause a commotion.
(15) In patients with brain commotion in the first week after trauma only 24-hours EEG revealed changes.
(16) Suzy Mitchell, 26, said she heard the commotion from her bedroom at the back of an apartment block opposite the venue: “Everyone was running away in big crowds.” Police were alerted to the explosion at 10.33pm.
(17) According to ABC News , the suicidal woman was on the edge of a balcony and threatened to jump when the three men heard the commotion and rushed into the building to rescue her.
(18) When gay radiologist Jorg Thieme had the temerity to kiss his male partner there, a scandalised Canary Wharf security guard intervened to prevent "a commotion".
(19) Some sudden movement attracted her attention, a commotion, and she could see Lawrence on the ground, a group of men surrounding him and kicking, holding him down, she remembers.
(20) Cool-headed, as if oblivious to the commotion around her, she was earnestly engaged in formulating a policy phrase that would distinguish government borrowing (for a fiscal stimulus to get us out of the financial crisis) from personal borrowing (of the sort which got us into it).