(a.) Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron.
Example Sentences:
(1) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
(2) Only a few stragglers outside O'Byron's pub refused to believe this was happening on Good Friday.
(3) Maybe Byron, or Yukio Mishima, the Japanese writer, who killed himself very dramatically, but that was more sloppy than this thing that Bowie has done now.
(4) Just as Mary was partly motivated by Byron and her husband, the poet Shelley, so Bram Stoker, the business manager for the Lyceum theatre, was inspired by his devoted service to the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
(5) Most of the 35 workers arrested in a controversial immigration sting at the Byron hamburger chain have been removed from the UK.
(6) His Schwarzman Scholars educational program funds research into the impact of climate change, and here’s Blackstone’s vice-chairman Byron Wien on climate change in a blogpost from last year: “The climate change problem is real, but not immediate and it is hard to get policy makers to focus on it, despite rising temperatures and sea levels ...
(7) A few years ago, he bought Lord Byron's old country estate in Hampton Court, and by all accounts the refurbishments would make Versailles look modest.
(8) He finished the session with his head in his hands, walked out, put it in a drawer, and forgot about it – until Mark Rylance, also now nominated for a Tony, came across a copy and declared an interest in the main character, Johnny "Rooster" Byron.
(9) Immigration raid on Byron Hamburgers rounds up 35 workers Read more “They had a list of names and some photos, which presumably they got from human resources in head office,” said one worker.
(10) After filling your belly with the very best British cream tea, sitting on a deckchair surrounded by fruiting apple trees at The Orchard Tea Garden, why not take a dip in the refreshingly cool and clear Byron's Pool, where Lord Byron himself was fond of a skinny dip.
(11) Well-known personalities who suffered from club-foot, such as Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, are mentioned and it is shown how the deformity affected them.
(12) I had things like a laptop, my clothes, all the things you need for life in London.” He was paid £10 an hour at Byron, where he worked for two years doing 50- to 70-hour weeks, he said.
(13) But Lord Byron was, perhaps, the most direct of them all: “We of the craft are all crazy,” he told the Countess of Blessington, casting a wary eye over his fellow poets.
(14) "We not going to invade anybody's privacy," Byron's Simmons-Edmunds said.
(15) Mickelson has five majors to his name, a statistic that places him alongside Seve Ballesteros, Peter Thomson and Byron Nelson in the golfing annals.
(16) Byron Moreno of Ecuador was the referee when Italy lost in the last 16 of the 2002 World Cup to the co-hosts South Korea .
(17) In lieu of scripts, Winterbottom will give them a story, a scenario, topics for discussion (in this case, anything from the Italian adventures of Byron and Shelley to the merits of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill ), and then the pair allow the conversation to meander off at their leisure.
(18) Migrant workers are often targets for that exploitation – underpaid and brutally discarded, as we saw in the past week at Byron.
(19) The agency had previously said in a statement on Monday there was no evidence to support the claim made by Byron Bailey, a former pilot, which was reported in the Australian newspaper .
(20) Now read on Byron is an irresistible character for many writers: try Paul West's Lord Byron's Doctor, written from Polidori's point of view, for a convincing portrait of an erotomaniac club-footed guru, while Byron's ghost looms throughout Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
Poet
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
Example Sentences:
(1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(2) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
(3) Back to my favourite Tunisian poet: “If, one day, a people desire to live, then fate will answer their call.
(4) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
(5) We don't have to be like the long-ago poet who once wrote : "Did you exist?
(6) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
(7) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(8) As a sports writer, he never missed a deadline, which was surprising for a poet.
(9) Liu Xia, a poet, has never been accused of a crime but has been under strict house arrest since shortly after the news that her husband had won the Nobel prize.
(10) By the time he joined the Army, he had begun to believe he was "more deep and true as a poet than a painter".
(11) He began his career as a professor at Yale, specialising in the Romantic poets.
(12) Perhaps, too, it’s the reason why another great Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, blew hot and cold about him.
(13) She said: "It is fascinating to see how we change as poets.
(14) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
(15) Before her detention, the poet told the Guardian she was not particularly interested in politics and seldom read her husband's works, adding: "But when you live with such a person, even if you don't care about politics, politics will care about you."
(16) One former Clifton College student, Stuart Delves, compared the relationship between students and some of the English teachers at the school in the late 60s and early 70s to the film Dead Poets Society.
(17) The international community must honour the dying wish of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo by taking immediate steps to protect his wife, the poet Liu Xia , who has endured years of government persecution, friends and supporters have said.
(18) The accused candidates include poet Vladimir Neklyayev, 64, and former deputy foreign minister, Andrei Sannikov, 56, who were both beaten by riot police during the protests.
(19) "All I had was the poet's name and a few lines of the poem.
(20) The group is named after Ezra Pound, the American poet who sided with Mussolini during the war.