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Bullfighting
Definition:
(n.) A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It's like watching a bullfight," says one Conservative backbench pessimist.
(2) Neal Cassady Drops Dead, Kick the Bride Down the Aisle and The Bullfighter Dies: track titles like thse could only come from the new Morrissey album.
(3) Seen as an art form rather than a sport by fans, bullfighting is also popular in southern France and some South American countries.
(4) José Tomás, a bullfighter loved by artists and leftwing intellectuals, was the star of a bill that included Marín and Juan Mora.
(5) Eight bullfighters have reportedly also died after being gored here.
(6) The number of bullfights across the country has fallen 46% in five years, and many bull rearers are cutting their losses and sending their herds to the abattoir.
(7) The emir's offer to fund the project is a step forward but the plans are still in the initial phases, pending the sale of the bullfighting ring by the current owner and the approval of the city of Barcelona.
(8) They can call it sport, they can call it tradition, they can write about its beauty, its poetry and its intricacy, they can invoke Hemingway and write about skill and ritual; for me that day the bullfight was a celebration of cruelty, of mob rule, of death, of picking on something weaker then you and amusing yourself at its expense.
(9) The current president of Catalonia, for example, was born in Córdoba in the south of Spain, and came to Catalonia at 16, and yet he has been absorbed into Catalan national life and is considered Catalan, even though, since there was a free vote, he actually voted against the ban on bullfighting on Wednesday.
(10) Last night he and the other bullfighters were greeted with cries of "Liberty!
(11) The 3-0 scoreline was nowhere as bad as their capitulation a few days earlier but the sense of melancholy was enhanced by the eerie indifferent atmosphere in Brasília – the booing and the ironic bullfighting-like chants to salute the Dutch passing proficiency never really threatened to reach the levels heard in Belo Horizonte, a city that unlike the Brazilian capital actually has a football culture.
(12) World Peace Is None of Your Business: tracklisting World Peace is None of Your Business Neal Cassady Drops Dead Istanbul I’m Not a Man Earth Is the Loneliest Planet Staircase at the University The Bullfighter Dies Kiss Me a Lot Smiler With Knife Kick the Bride Down the Aisle Mountjoy Oboe Concerto
(13) The bullfighting referendum came as Spain looks poised to ask the EU to rescue its ailing banks.
(14) Transposing the Brothers Grimm to 1920s Spain, he doffs his montera not only to European silent cinema of the period, but to bullfighting and flamenco, with an atmospheric Gothic melodrama that has lashings of humour – mostly provided by Maribel Verdú as the social-climbing evil stepmother with a penchant for S&M – bags of invention, and an expressive, flamenco-inflected score by Alfonso de Vilallonga.
(15) Thereafter, throughout his life, he craved the company of risk-takers – bullfighters or big-game hunters – and longed to be accepted by them.
(16) Deputies in the local parliament, they said, had voted it through purely because bullfighting was emblematic of Spain and they wanted to differentiate Catalonia from the rest of the country.
(17) As Escamillo the bullfighter indicates in his famous aria, this is a community who fight for pleasure.
(18) In the early 2000s, the city's then mayor, Joan Clos, studied the possibility of building a mosque in Las Arenas bullfighting ring.
(19) On Sunday evening, amid the cheers of fans and the bloody death throes of fighting bulls, Barcelona hosted its last-ever bullfight.
(20) Since the region's ban on bullfighting came into effect, several plans have been batted around for the imposing century-old neo- mudéjar building, including a street market, luxury flats and a green space.