(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.
Incarnate
Definition:
(a.) Not in the flesh; spiritual.
(a.) Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.
(a.) Flesh-colored; rosy; red.
(v. t.) To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.
(v. i.) To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phil has to go through every incarnation of what he thinks love is until he really gets it."
(2) The Brotherhood's Libyan incarnation won only 10% of the vote in last year's congressional elections, but gained support with its campaign to mandate wholesale purges of Gaddafi-era officials.
(3) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
(4) Hall said it would be given the budget it needed to do the job, raising the prospect that far from having its budget cut, as much of the corporation has had to do, it may get more money in its next incarnation.
(5) But rather than stew in bitterness, Hodgson's departure seems to have focused the band in much the same way as getting dropped in their early days (in their incarnation as Parva) did.
(6) But one thing that distinguishes today's establishment from earlier incarnations is its sense of triumphalism.
(7) "Ironically the church is a church of the incarnation.
(8) For decades, "Tricky Dicky" was the supreme hate figure for the American left, the incarnation of the antichrist for Democrats.
(9) If the EU learns the lesson of the eurozone crisis and rows back from some of the more unbalanced and excessively intrusive initiatives of which the euro itself in its current incarnation has become the symbol, the Greek crisis may turn out to have been just another of those stutters that accompany any grand political experiment.
(10) I think of the younger, gayer, less neurotic incarnation of myself that appears on Facebook.
(11) The trophy has been through several incarnations, but this year's competition is the first where the MLS sides' entry isn't staggered according to league position - ensuring that 16 ties would take place featuring the top tier sides, with a chance of an upset in each of them.
(12) As Cohn himself pointed out, all his work was fundamentally concerned with the study of the same phenomenon: "the urge to purify the world through the annihilation of some category of human beings imagined as agents of corruption and incarnations of evil".
(13) But he said: “LVMH is the illustration, the incarnation of the worst, according to these extreme-leftist observers, of what the market economy produces.” Switching to irony, he said: “We have it all wrong.
(14) In most languages, the most common sexist insults are "whore" or "slut", which makes women want to distance themselves from the stigma associated with those words, and from those who incarnate it.
(15) An early incarnation of the uncertainty principle appeared in a 1927 paper by Heisenberg, a German physicist who was working at Niels Bohr 's institute in Copenhagen at the time, titled " On the Perceptual Content of Quantum Theoretical Kinematics and Mechanics ".
(16) But in its most critical passage, Tuesday’s report merely called for the American nuns to “carefully review their spiritual practices and ministry to assure that these are in harmony with Catholic teaching about God, creation, the incarnation and the redemption,” and called for greater dialogue.
(17) It has, however, detailed where the new boundary will lie compared to its current incarnation.
(18) Past incarnations of the Union would have chosen this as their moment to fold, but instead Philadelphia struck back before the half, and while it would take till injury time to do so, and thanks to another penalty, they got out of the game with Sébastien le Toux’s late equaliser.
(19) Cultural puritans might denounce the whole idea as a perverse extreme of reality TV, which in its Big Brother incarnation – a format also invented by the Dutch – was always designed primarily as a form of psychological torture for our sadistic viewing pleasure.
(20) In War and Peace, he successfully depicted the public and national soul as incarnated in a vast array of individuals, and the novel tries, in a compelling way, to define the same unity amongst his characters.