(n.) A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday.
(n.) Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess.
Example Sentences:
(1) So far, the UK election has thrown up a carnival of peculiar results | Lewis Baston Read more Scotland, of course, is a different story: but David Cameron’s antagonistic response to the 2014 referendum clearly swung a lot of anti-Tory voters towards the SNP.
(2) The Florida senator said: “This simplistic notion that ‘leave Assad there because he’s a brutal killer, but he’s not as bad as what’s going to follow him’ is a fundamental and simplistic and dangerous misunderstanding of the reality of the region.” It’s unclear though how much the actual debate about policy between the two senators stood out from the political carnival surrounding them.
(3) Then there's a figure like Bassnectar, who can play the big carnival-style festivals but also takes his gnarly-but-trippy version of dubstep to events like Electric Forest, where he'll play on the same bill as jam bands like String Cheese Incident.
(4) Neame, whose Carnival Films production company also made Poirot and Whitechapel, said its worldwide success has been a surprise: "I was hopeful that we would have the usual 50-plus, upscale, Anglophile American audience, but I didn't know that we would become such a mainstream hit.
(5) Moreover, we noted a striking alteration of the fetal face in 33-39% of experimental fetuses, called by us carnival fetuses.
(6) This carnival of camera phones, caressing and even groping (the waxen men do have "moulds" where their private parts would be so that their trousers hang properly, but no, nothing too realistic down there) is the celebrity world were we in control.
(7) Gareth Neame, managing director of Carnival Films, which produces the show, said: "We promise all the usual highs and lows, romance, drama and comedy played out by some of the most iconic characters on television."
(8) Alfredo Castro, head of police in Bahia state, said that more than 3,000 army soldiers who were deployed to Salvador and smaller cities would continue to patrol until the carnival ended next week to ensure safety and an orderly transition as police return to their posts.
(9) Braving darkening skies, they were initially in an upbeat mood, belting out the samba rhythm of carnival classic I'm Going to Celebrate.
(10) Nuclear debate: 'It doesn’t matter where the money comes from' Read more The largest single deal remained China’s commitment to buy a £6bn stake in the Hinkley Point nuclear power station , though a £2.6bn contract with Carnival, the world’s largest cruise ship operator, to make new ships, and a £1.7bn agreement with Chinese developer Advanced Business Park to redevelop a 35-acre site at the Royal Albert docks in east London and create up to 30,000 jobs, were also among the near £40bn of initiatives.
(11) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
(12) The border with the west became the venue for a carnival of people power.
(13) Two black FTSE 100 bosses come to mind: Tidjane Thiam, who left Prudential for Credit Suisse last year, and Arnold Donald at Carnival.
(14) I have lived in the middle of the carnival route for 12 years now and going by my wholly unscientific observation, the carnival is one of the lovelier forms of cultural cross-pollination.
(15) 4.35pm BST Hanley Bus Station, a carnival of concrete and (faded) colour!
(16) It’s getting bigger and we have some big events,” he said, citing deployments of thousands of officers to police the Notting Hill carnival and New Year’s Eve celebrations.
(17) The demonstrations' bloody ending has largely erased memories of the carnival of protest that preceded it: an astonishing uprising which lasted six weeks and drew in millions of people from around the country, threatening an end to communist rule.
(18) Zika virus: health experts fear Carnival celebrations will lead to spread Read more It was previously considered to have relatively mild consequences for those infected.
(19) After a nail-biting count, Fahey stood in the Royal Botanic Gardens and proclaimed: “The carnival is over.” O’Farrell won Northcott, which later became Ku-ring-gai.
(20) The left’s weakness has been its belief that there is an inexorable direction to history, that triumph is preordained All of which means that the party’s conference in Brighton in September must be a rigorous campaign launch rather than a carnival of celebration.
Hoopla
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Sorry if I did that.” That hoopla created a sizzling atmosphere in which players needed to stay cool.
(2) I was conscious [that as prime minister of Australia] I came with a lot of hoopla,” she says.
(3) And even then – after all this "Vesuvian hoopla", as Joe Klein put it in Time magazine – she still leaves us dangling.
(4) "As soon as the hoopla started with the passage of the law, branches of organisations like Occupy Paedophilia and Occupy Gerontophilia appeared in our city."
(5) US Open 2015: Serena Williams v Vitalia Diatchenko – as it happened Read more It was a muted counterpoint to the annual on-court hoopla to set the tone of the loudest fortnight in tennis, as much a rolling circus as a tennis tournament, especially under the stars.
(6) The 26-year-old, obsessed by the macabre hoopla surrounding other mass shootings, left a note – a multi-page, angry screed, it was reported – and murdered with apparent yearning for posthumous notoriety.
(7) In other words: Corbyn’s failure, after so much hoopla, would threaten to re-define the centre ground and, by definition, make the Tories look more rightwing.
(8) Accompanying this we have the usual hoopla: frenzied speculation about "valuations"; serious looking bankers in suits touting spreadsheets which purport to give a rational basis for numbers plucked out of the air; gossip columnists speculating on how much the company's founders will be "worth "after the first day's trading.
(9) 10.57pm GMT Paula Matthewson, writing in The Hoopla this morning, has produced a typically interesting column on the Labor leader Bill Shorten's address yesterday to the National Press Club.
(10) Shorten noted “hoopla and showmanship” in the joint announcement by the PUP leader, Clive Palmer, and the climate crusader Al Gore on carbon policy last week, but emphasised “significant points of climate consensus” including the retention of the renewable energy target, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, and the Climate Change Authority.
(11) Next month, amid the usual hoopla, Apple is expected to officially unveil its latest gadget: the much-awaited iPhone 4G .
(12) And in that sense, much of the hoopla around Record Store Day and the aforementioned gig posters surely speaks volumes.
(13) In his stated desire to avoid the pre-Oscar hoopla, Fassbender is echoing the views of Joaquin Phoenix , who called the Academy awards "the worst-tasting carrot I've ever tasted in my whole life".
(14) But amid all the hoopla about what "wearable tech" might actually do for consumers, an equally important debate has emerged over what one might call "geek aesthetics".
(15) But for all the hoopla, the leap to $1,000 would be a big hike for a company that has already enjoyed a record run on the stock exchange.
(16) After Court's defeat, she agreed to play Riggs, and a great hoopla built up around the match.
(17) Because, despite all the hoopla, nothing substantial changed.
(18) Rick Perry most recently entered the 2012 Republican race with solid polling numbers and much media hoopla.