(n.) A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso borealis is the only orchid which reaches 68¡ N.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calypso star Glenroy "Sullé" Caesar composed a song called Reparations, which has since become an anthem of the movement.
(2) Ukip’s claim that they are not a racist party gets more and more incredible with every scandal.” Read defended his song after some objected to his appropriation of calypso music to promote an anti-immigration argument.
(3) Remarkably, when Kitchener disembarked, Pathe News caught the "king of calypso" on camera.
(4) With its wit and side order of double entendre – "Oh mister, don't touch me tomatoes" – calypso fitted easily into the national psyche.
(5) It was The Banana Boat Song, a Jamaican work chant, that broke calypso to an international audience.
(6) Ukip has attracted criticism over its new calypso theme tune sung in a fake Caribbean accent, with lyrics about “open borders” and “illegal immigrants in every town”.
(7) I flew down there with my grandfather to spend two weeks on his boat, the Calypso, when I was nine.
(8) As the 50s teetered into the 60s, calypso was still popular.
(9) In his youth, when he was a Boston-based calypso singer, they used to call him The Charmer.
(10) But it was never meant to be remotely racist … It’s an old-fashioned political satire … you can’t sing a calypso with a Surrey accent.” The song’s second line addresses the issue of immigration, saying: “Leaders committed a cardinal sin, open the borders let them all come in; illegal immigrants in every town, stand up and be counted Blair and Brown.
(11) However, Calypso Sun Lotion SPF30, at £1.20 per 100ml is around a 10th of the cost of Piz Buin lotion – passed both tests.
(12) The first breach took place on 2 August last year, when the votes cast by five Irish viewers in Cricket AM's Car Park Calypso competition were not registered because of a technical fault.
(13) They are funny because David Silvester said gay marriage had caused flooding in the Thames basin ; because Godfrey Bloom assaulted a reporter with a conference brochure and condemned aid to “bongo bongo land” ; because their celebrity Mike Read sang a pro-Ukips calypso in a West Indian accent ; because William Henwood said Lenny Henry should emigrate to a “black country” ; because Winston McKenzie has the fame-crazed air of a man who would join a Skrewdriver tribute band if he thought it would get him on Channel 5 news; and because the Ukips’ deputy leader, Paul Nuttalls, is so pleased to be the centre of attention he sports the perpetual expression of a baby that has just used a potty for the first time, holding up his arse muck delightedly for his parents to coo over.
(14) Tidy lines of classic blue-and-white or pastel pink beach huts called Calypso and Aquarius sit on sea defences at Chapel Point, a few miles from Skegness.
(15) As a new book devoted to the label's cover art illustrates, Studio One also branched out into gospel, calypso and mento recordings, and even sessions by Indian devotional musician Sri Chinmoy.
Improvise
Definition:
(v. t.) To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.
(v. t.) To bring about, arrange, or make, on a sudden, or without previous preparation.
(v. t.) To invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone.
(v. i.) To produce or render extemporaneous compositions, especially in verse or in music, without previous preparation; hence, to do anything offhand.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(3) He could execute in an exemplary fashion pieces of music for the organ in his repertory as well as improvise.
(4) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
(5) But in the Round Room of the Mansion House there must have been at least two thousand others in an improvised Strangers' Gallery.
(6) : Facial Action Coding System: From the video-recordings of faces and their photographic versions obtained after a pause on the video recorder, these authors have improvised a technic based on the visual observation of the anatomical basis of the movement in connection with facial expression and their description through minimal anatomical action units or A.U.
(7) A nondescript Gerard Deulofeu corner just before the half-hour was transformed by an improvised, volleyed flick from Gareth Barry.
(8) The British director demands six months of improvisation and filming; according to Eddie Marsan, Malick makes dialogue up on the spot and then starts his camera rolling, whether the actor's ready or not.
(9) This is how we can help the terrorists, if we attack hospitals, schools, and things like this.” The devastation of Syria will be Obama’s legacy | Natalie Nougayrède Read more Assad also rejected criticism of his forces’ use of barrel bombs, improvised crates of high explosives most often dropped on urban areas from helicopters.
(10) Furthermore, the same process may lead the surgeon to improvise and create a successful alternative.
(11) I write it by working with the actors as they improvise.
(12) This is not something that can be improvised, however.
(13) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
(14) The panopticon-like New Broadcasting House, the enlarged central London HQ that opened last year, was designed without offices for individual executives, though Hall insisted on having one – he occupies a former meeting room – and Yentob has improvised one.
(15) At least United managed to win the game and put some points on the board, thanks to Mata’s inspired improvisation, and in the context of English results in Europe this week that does count as progress.
(16) Brennan told Fox the troops would have to be confident he posed no threat "in terms of not having an IED [improvised explosive device] on his body".
(17) The surgery involves a microsurgical dissection at the site of the common canalicular obstruction followed by anastomosis to the sac or nasal mucosa with silicone tube intubation of the passage using an improvised metallic introducer.
(18) Medical equipment, shields, helmets, improvised armour, gas masks and camping equipment are also being sent.
(19) Cameron announced a series of measures to help stabilise the country and to strengthen the British military effort to hasten the withdrawal: • A doubling of the number of teams, from 10 to 20, dealing with improvised explosive devices.
(20) Loach has spent his career depicting ordinary people, telling working-class stories as truthfully as possible, and he works distinctively – filming each scene in order, often using non-professional actors, encouraging improvisation.