(n.) A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearing berries regarded as poisonous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
(2) And in November, the US sixth circuit court of appeals ruled against these decisions , leaving Johnson and Campion in the same demeaning and inconvenient legal status they have faced since getting together.
(3) The project reunites her with Jane Campion, director of An Angel At My Table, in which Fox hiked, rotten-toothed and bubble-haired, across the hills of New Zealand.
(4) The substitution of arginine 45 with lysine also showed no effect on receptor binding, unlike the absolute requirement observed for the arginine side-chain at position 41 [Engler DA, Campion SR, Hauser MR, Cook JS, Niyogi, SK: J Biol Chem 267:2274-2281, 1992].
(5) Dolan made an emotional speech thanking his family and the jury president, Jane Campion, whose film The Piano was one of the first he saw.
(6) My own view is that we do: people such as Pedro Almodóvar, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jane Campion, Pedro Costa, Wong Kar-Wai, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jacques Audiard – and, perhaps most importantly, the Austrian Michael Haneke, who has produced a string of lacerating movies: Code Unknown (2000), Hidden (2005) and The White Ribbon (2009).
(7) Ten of the nominations in the TV categories were for the BBC, including Dancing on the Edge, Stephen Poliakoff's 1930s London jazz scene, detective drama Luther, the White Queen, BBC1's adaptation of Philippa Gregory's Wars of the Roses novels, and BBC 2's Top of the Lake, Jane Campion's New Zealand-set thriller.
(8) This year's Cannes film festival jury will be led by Jane Campion, who beat both Leigh and Loach to the Palme d'Or in 1993 for her critically acclaimed film The Piano.
(9) The longer the delay, however, the longer couples like Campion and Johnson must deal with the practical issues of being a couple, and parents, in a legal system that doesn’t recognize their families.
(10) "I'd been dreaming about writing a story that was basically a mystery detective story, set in this area I know very well, which is New Zealand," said Campion.
(11) It's significant that a film director of the calibre of New Zealand's Jane Campion chose BBC2 with which to make her first foray into TV, Top of the Lake.
(12) He cries, thanks Jane Campion for The Piano, marvels at the pleasure of his short time in "this crazy business".
(13) He added that the corporation had "for all the difficulties … created some absolutely extraordinary content", highlighting its coverage of Glastonbury, Wimbledon, the Proms, and dramas such as The Fall, The Village, The White Queen and Jane Campion's Top of the Lake, which started last weekend on BBC2.
(14) I wonder whether Fox and Campion, both from New Zealand, share a sensibility.
(15) In Campion's new film, she strolls, strong but crumpled, through the bleached skies and brilliant green grass of London's Hampstead Heath.
(16) The paucity of female visions in Hollywood has come in for increasing criticism in recent years, despite the Oscar-winning success of notable exceptions such as The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow and The Piano's Jane Campion .
(17) At the podium, a tearful Dolan paid tribute to Campion.
(18) "I could have happily stayed there for another couple of hours," insisted jury president Jane Campion.
(19) Jane Campion 's jury now retires to consider its verdict at Cannes.
(20) So that's Paradise, the prime patch of real estate that serves as the tumultuous backdrop to Top Of The Lake ( Saturday, 9.10pm, BBC2 ), Jane "The Piano" Campion's bleak, eccentric six-part drama about child abuse, murder, domestic violence, painful secrets and terrible beards in a remote New Zealand community.
Champagne
Definition:
(n.) A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Vladimir Putin kicks back on New Year's Eve with a glass of Russian-made champagne, and reflects on the year behind him, he is likely to feel rather pleased with himself at the way his foreign policy initiatives have gone in 2013.
(2) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(3) "It's jam tomorrow for the investors but champagne today for the investment bankers," said another.
(4) ‘People were looking for a focus for their anxieties, and Greenham was it’ Read more People were sitting on the wall, drinking champagne and beers, so I hopped up to join them.
(5) Now Alex Salmond, the SNP’s once and future king has been enjoying fish, chips and pink champagne with the editor of the New Statesman, Jason Cowley .
(6) But the instruction issued by the party headquarters in Paris was defied by the Socialist candidate in the Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine region, who came third but announced he would stand for the second round anyway.
(7) Prosecco sells for an average of £6.49 a bottle, compared with £16.23 for champagne, according to Kantar.
(8) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(9) Around the same time, the motor racing heiress Tamara Ecclestone totted up a champagne bill of £30,000 in one evening.
(10) Hold the champagne back for now - from a nation of bankers to a nation of builders?
(11) Because have you seen the champagne photos that these people take?
(12) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
(13) And if fancy hats and champers are more your scene, there's a free beach polo match here on 16 September, with public champagne bars and a barbecue.
(14) "I think I heard the putt-putt of champagne corks popping in No 11," one Tory said.
(15) However, Greenpeace said it was “no wonder the UK government has opted for a ‘champagne-free’ signing ceremony away from public view”.
(16) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
(17) Thousands of people jammed the streets and stood on rooftops, singing songs, waving Israeli flags and popping champagne bottles.
(18) How many science public engagement exercises can you say that about?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest RRS Boaty McBoatface wins poll to name £200m polar research vessel – video explainer Michael Tinmouth, a social media strategist who has worked with brands such as Vodafone and Microsoft, said he did not expect to see a glass of champagne being broken over the bow of Boaty McBoatface any time soon, but also urged the NERC to own the story.
(19) Experts suggest that the popularity of prosecco means it risks becoming a generic term for any sparkling wine that is not champagne.
(20) He then brought further drinks – four gin and tonics, a champagne cocktail, and even a £15 Romeo and Julieta cigar.