(n.) A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points.
(v. t.) To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
(2) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
(3) The success of Capote paved the way for bigger and more nuanced parts for Hoffman, his turn as the villain in Mission: Impossible III (2006) notwithstanding.
(4) Capote clearly identified with this "chunky, misshapen child-man".
(5) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
(6) In "The Duke in His Domain" , published the following year, and still considered a milestone in the history of celebrity profiles, Capote interviewed Marlon Brando on location in Kyoto.
(7) Producers were said to be targeting mainly arthouse film-makers, with Capote's Bennett Miller and Monster's Patty Jenkins also considered, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
(8) And Hitchcock was a doddle compared to Capote, with his helium voice, the birdlike mincing, the urbane spikiness.
(9) Jones was easily the more Capote-like, but Hoffman got there first.
(10) Though the crime in itself did not interest Capote especially ("the subject matter", he said, "was purely incidental") he instinctively understood that the killings had a mythical or universal quality, and that "murder was a theme not likely to darken and yellow with time".
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On watching Mistress America, I filed it as a riff on Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s , with Brooke in the role of a 21st-century Holly Golightly.
(12) For many critics, the "non-fiction novel", as Capote was calling it, belonged to a tradition dating back to Daniel Defoe's The Storm (1704), in which Defoe used the voices of real people to tell his story, a tradition that boasted many exponents, among them Mark Twain, Dickens, Steinbeck, James Agee and Lillian Ross.
(13) It was Capote, not Vidal, who came up with the most waspish dismissal of Kerouac's work: "That's not writing, that's typing."
(14) Talese, alongside Tom Wolfe , Truman Capote and others, was considered the master of that form, inhabiting his subjects’ interior lives – mafia dons, sports stars, New York eccentrics – with irresistible persuasion; 50 years on, his story “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” remains the acknowledged high-water mark of magazine profile writing.
(15) This was a new Capote – surprisingly tough, almost hard-boiled.
(16) All the same, it seems naive to suppose that one could carry out such an examination without considering people's desire for justice and retribution, and only a few weeks after Capote's arrival in Kansas, the arrest of two small-time crooks, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, and their subsequent confessions, radically altered both the angle and the scale of his undertaking.
(17) The result was a magnificently layered performance, in which Capote's waspish armour of wit came down to reveal an empathetic, vulnerable soul.
(18) In his deft manipulation of the facts and impressions that he had gathered, Capote's hand is there for all to see.
(19) Before she joined the women's movement, she was merely "a pretty girl" (not that she necessarily thought so: her famous aviator shades were, she says now, something to hide behind, and her streaked hair a tribute to Audrey Hepburn's turn as Holly Golightly, Truman Capote's country bumpkin-turned-cafe society girl – a character to whom she "totally" related).
(20) Capote's jackdaw eye gathered precise, jewelled, almost hyper-real detail – from the easterly wind stirring the elm trees on the track leading to the Clutters' farmhouse to the corpses lying in the Phillips' Funeral Home in Garden City, their heads encased in sparkling white cotton, and swollen to twice the size of blown-up balloons – while his ear rapidly tuned in to local speech patterns, alive to every nuance, every rhythm.
Caput
Definition:
(n.) The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.
(n.) The top or superior part of a thing.
(n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuclei were isolated from boar spermatid or sperm cells at three distinct stages of spermatogenesis: just before the completion of a maturation process in the testis (late spermatid), immediately after a subsequent transformation into spermatozoa (caput spermatozoon), and after full maturation (cauda spermatozoon).
(2) Rat spermatozoa were recovered from the caput, corpus, and cauda epididymides and assayed for glycosidase activity, total nonamino (neutral) carbohydrate, and protein content.
(3) Flagellar movement of golden hamster spermatozoa obtained from the testis and the caput and cauda epididymides was observed by a light microscope while holding them at their heads with a micropipette.
(4) Results indicate that sperm first exhibit WGA reactivity on their flagellae in the region of the distal caput, and that the appearance of WGA receptors is due to the binding of a 54-Kd glycoprotein (SMA4) to the cell surface.
(5) There were no changes in SGP-2 mRNA concentrations in the initial segment and caput epididymidis.
(6) These binding sites, localized in the circumference of the epididymal tubule and most concentrated within the proximal cauda, are present throughout the caput, corpus, and remaining cauda epididymis.
(7) During the first 15 days of the postnatal life, the histochemical reaction intensities were identical from the caput to the cauda epididymidis.
(8) The 8.2S form of the AR is also present in all three segments of the immature epididymis, with the highest concentration occurring in the caput.
(9) Filaments were least prominent in intact caput spermatozoa and most prominent in ejaculated spermatozoa.
(10) Adult Wistar rats were bilaterally caput epididymectomized and the effects on testicular germinal epithelium and formation of multinucleated bodies were studied and quantified at 2, 4, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days after surgery.
(11) Most of the caput epididymidis was composed of efferent ducts.
(12) Dibutyryl cAMP and cAMP stimulated caput spermatozoa but had no effect on cauda spermatozoa.
(13) Eventually efferentectomized animals showed a progressive alteration, but its level was much lower than that observed after partial epididymectomy, indicating a possible specific function of the caput epididymidis in the control of testicular function.
(14) In all the principal cells of the caput, the supranuclear ER cisternae were heterogeneously impregnated.
(15) These immunoreactive pale cells occurred in the distal caput and proximal corpus of the epididymidis.
(16) The changes in the weight, histology and biochemical composition of the epididymis (caput, corpus and cauda segments) in prepuberal rabbit and rhesus monkey in response to testosterone treatment were investigated.
(17) A well circumscribed area of necrotic bone was demonstrated in the weight bearing part of the caput giving evidence of a solitary infarction.
(18) Spermatozoa from the caput epididymis are known to be much less capable of fertilization when compared to sperm from more distal segments of the epididymis.
(19) Analysis by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of proteins secreted directly into the epididymal luminal fluid revealed that clusterin was secreted by caput epithelium and not by the corpus and cauda epithelium.
(20) When a caput succedaneum has developed in the measuring area the mean value of the tcPco2 is significantly higher (62.70 mmHg instead of 55.14 mmHg respectively 68.98 mmHg instead of 65.98 mmHg) at 39 degrees C respectively 44 degrees C. No significant influence of different preparation techniques of the measuring site has been found during this investigation.