(1) They were also remote from Chast, not particularly nurturing, and very much parents, not friends.
(2) Watson, of Harry Potter fame, tweeted a photograph of herself doubled up in stitches and linking to the Guardian report of the Twitter backlash against Turkish deputy prime minister Bülent Arinç, who said in a speech to mark Eid al-Fitr on Monday that women should be "chaste", know the difference between public and private, and "she should not laugh in public".
(3) Chast did all the things one has to do; she put them somewhere decent and clean.
(4) As her parents lay dying, Chast dragged herself back to their apartment and started the grim task of sifting through a lifetime of worthless possessions.
(5) We are in the kitchen of Chast's house, overlooking her garden.
(6) Awareness campaigns on the dangers of unprotected sex largely target the young, while the media continues to perpetuate the stereotype of older people as impotent and chaste or perverted and figures of ridicule.
(7) Those who know and love Chast's work think of her as the queen of family angst, a brilliant chronicler of domestic strife, and the account of her parents' last year – as they move from the apartment, to hospital, to a care home in Connecticut – is an extraordinary record of the love, fury and ambivalence that often characterises these experiences.
(8) Her lurid totem with black lacy detailing edged it over Richard’s more chaste mill and Luis’s industrial mechanism.
(9) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.
(10) "Her emotions were very primary colours," says Chast.
(11) However, in the hot summer of 1912 an initially chaste and awkward relationship, punctuated with readings of Housman poems and stilted conversations about Eros, swiftly took wing.
(12) Roz Chast explores her relationship with her parents in her graphic memoir.
(13) Her father died first, aged 95, and as Chast's relationship with him had been closer, she was less riven by guilt than she was during her mother's last days.
(14) Chast had done right by them, but she was still sick with regret after they were gone.
(15) 2) Strictness in child rearing, shielding the child from any knowledge of sexual relations and its possible outcome in the hope of keeping her chaste but in fact often leading to early sexual relations.
(16) And so, when Chast's mother injured herself in a fall and her father started showing signs of dementia, Chast moved them to a care home near her house, where the contrast in weekly expenditure was so horrifying, she says, you could only laugh.
(17) But the feelings inside it would be false, because what all of us, young and old, felt was embarrassment and, on my part, sympathy for a father whose belief in chaste language had just been discounted as an unsophisticated prejudice by a famous person – an intellectual even, and we tended to like those – on television.
(18) Anne later said they had played cards in the bed, and told a lady-in-waiting that her husband was a perfect gentleman, giving her a greeting and a chaste kiss each night and before he left her in the morning.
(19) The first indication Roz Chast had that her elderly parents weren't coping was when she noticed the level of grime in their apartment.
(20) Nymphomaniac stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as Joe, who recounts her life story to a chaste, lonely bachelor named Seligman, played by Stellan Skarsgård.
Chat
Definition:
(v. i.) To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
(v. t.) To talk of.
(n.) Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
(n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.
(n.) A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
(n.) Small stones with ore.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cDNA insert, which contained a 728-amino acid coding region for ChAT, was used for immunizing rabbits.
(2) The Ca2+ agonist Bay K 8644 (1 microM) potentiated the effects of elevated K+ on both ChAT and TOH.
(3) You could also chat to local estate agents to get an idea of what kind of extension, if any, would appeal to buyers in your area.
(5) ChAT activities of the iris, adrenal gland, and superior cervical ganglion were similar in all groups.
(6) Vladimir Putin brushed off complaints of election fixing during his annual televised live chat with the nation on Thursday , but behind the scenes his lieutenants are anxiously plotting how to quell rising discontent.
(7) I tweet, check Facebook, chat with friends, keep in touch with colleagues, check in using Foursquare, use it to check work emails from home and organise notes using Evernote.
(8) In an interview on Jonathan Ross's chat show on ITV1 in September 2011, Adele had said: "I'm going back in the studio in November, fingers crossed.
(9) Since the striatal response began to be detectable at a similar concentration as that required for the full maintenance or restoration of ChAT and NGF receptor positivity it could be seen as an unwanted side-effect.
(10) In the ganglion cell layer, 40% of the cells were immunoreactive for choline acetyltransferase (ChAT); these cells were very homogeneous in size, had an average diameter of 12.6 microns, and appeared to represent a single class of cholinergic amacrine.
(11) There was also local reduction in choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activity and significant losses of 55-kDa protein in the soluble fraction and of 50-kDa protein in myelin and synaptosomal fractions in the hippocampi of colchicine-lesioned rats.
(12) Cholinergic expression, as assessed by activity of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), responded differentially to neuropeptide treatment.
(13) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(14) Frankly, an unconfrontational, off-the-high-horse chat is in order but it's not coming soon.
(15) Intraocular injections of colchicine did not result in the appearance of a population of ChAT-immunoreactive neurons in the ganglion cell layer.
(16) In addition, ChAT activity was enhanced by anti-Met, and TH activity by both anti-Met and naloxone.
(17) In both species, ChAT-IR somata in the GCL outnumbered those in the INL at all retinal locations.
(18) The neuropil of this nucleus was free from any distinctly ChAT-positive structures.
(19) On the train journey to court I will usually chat to the family to try and help them remain calm before the day ahead.
(20) Since arriving in Moscow, Snowden has been keeping late and solitary hours – effectively living on US time, tapping away on one of his three computers (three to be safe; he uses encrypted chat, too).