(1) Miranda Hart as Chummy Brown in Call the Midwife By now, we are huddled around a heater.
(2) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
(3) But this is not that occasion, and in the beige-on-beige meeting room at Burberry's HQ in London, with David Yelland, the ex-editor of the Sun, and her PR minder in tow, it's not quite so chummy.
(4) Worth died last June, before she could see Call the Midwife become a massive Sunday-night ratings hit – its first episode outshone the much-hyped Sherlock to become BBC1's most-watched drama debut episode ever – with Chummy one of its most-loved characters.
(5) Besides which, Warren’s own biography strongly indicates she’s not keen to be an insider , anyway – as have her recent speeches taking the Obama administration to task for its chumminess with Wall Street types.
(6) And in the end, the only real remedy is to reduce the cost of running for parliament and therefore reduce the need for politicians to be so chummy with the people who give them lots of money.
(7) Lavrov and Kerry appeared chummy, exchanging whispers and slaps on the back, in marked contrast to the strained relationship the longtime Russian foreign minister maintained with the new secretary of state's predecessors.
(8) There were no chummy texts with any proprietor and no blizzard of emails, text and phone exchanges with Adam Smith who last week told the inquiry it was mere happenstance he was not in touch with the alliance — they had not contacted him.
(9) The appearance of a George Bush impressionist alongside the real thing at the White House correspondents' dinner this weekend was seen across the world, but the speech that followed - by Stephen Colbert, a colleague of the American satirist Jon Stewart - was a lot less chummy.
(10) Meanwhile, journalists – and remember that in the age of the web everyone online is a potential journalist – might concentrate on police abuses of power if they cannot get chummy with serving officers in the News of the World style.
(11) Earlier, the second episode of BBC1 six-part Call the Midwife, which saw the introduction of Miranda Hart's character Chummy Browne to the drama set in London's East End in the 1950s, averaged 8.6 million and 30.7% from 8pm.
(12) That was a nod to Wednesday’s chummy Liberal press conference down the road at the City of Armadale council offices, when Hastie stepped in to take an awkward question directed at Abbott about the future of his leadership.
(13) And it's not really advice – just a faux-chummy way of criticising.
(14) Why Schroders' reshuffle looks like a triumph of chumminess Read more The move contravenes recommendations in the corporate governance code, the regulatory framework that Schroders is more used to defending as a powerful investment institution.
(15) Its a tricky formula developed by Blair and now Cameron: the public profile is all amiability and chummy bloke-next-door, but their political success depends on very different characteristics of calculation, ruthlessness and impatience.
(16) "I flicked straight to Chummy's entrance in the book – well, you would, wouldn't you?
(17) "I didn't want him to get all chummy-chummy, all that bullshit.
(18) The first series ended with Hart's character, Chummy Brown, marrying PC Noakes, and one standout scene was when she overcame her self-doubt to deliver a breech birth.
(19) 8.01pm: Paul Kanjorski (D-Pennsyvania) tries to get chummy, tells Toyoda that when he returns to Japan he'll be able to brag about withstanding a quizzing by Congress, considered a badge of courage in the US.
(20) Social realism is lightened by a certain silliness and, of course, by the award-winning performance from Hart as Chummy.
Crummy
Definition:
(a.) Full of crumb or crumbs.
(a.) Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of the night, he told us we'd been such a crummy audience we didn't deserve an encore, and he didn't do one.
(2) Sayer is referring to the Watership Alan episode of I'm Alan Partridge when irate farmers drop a dead cow from a bridge on the hapless DJ while he's trying to film a crummy commercial for Hamilton's Water Breaks.
(3) I am also contributing to my £1,000 deposit (which I'll get back if I win 5% of the vote), donating to the Green mayoral campaign, and I need to upgrade my crummy phone if I am to get any better at social media.
(4) But hardware manufacturers often default to crummy security, or don’t offer a choice, and consumers often make themselves more vulnerable than they should.
(5) And the prize is gonna be really crummy every week.
(6) In these days of Stock, Aitken & Waterman, stale re-releases and crummy cover versions, an alternative rock scene can still feel proud and puffed up despite being tainted by its own decay.
(7) What a crummy world if we all retreat inside our own borders.
(8) To say ‘Oh I want you independently and I’m going to pay you no more than you would get as a regular wage employee,’ – that seems like a really crummy deal,” said John-Paul Ferguson, an assistant professor of organisational behaviour at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
(9) Dead high streets full of charity shops, crummy roads, an eerie emptiness where all the commerce should be … besides a few urban heat islands and the fact that bus infrastructure, miraculously, has survived, the transformation is complete.
(10) Jolson was out on the sidewalk and soon out in the hinterland picking up one-night fees in crummy night clubs 1,000 miles from the Broadway he had ruled.
(11) Salmon calls it "an inspirational place – I love Television Centre, but let's face it some of the accommodation we are in is pretty crummy.
(12) We can measure Romney's crumminess by examining his favorable ratings.
(13) US secretary of defense James Mattis has urged allies to “bear with us”, noting it would be a “crummy world” if Americans retreated into isolationism.
(14) As Tim Wu chronicles it in his remarkable book, The Master Switch , each of these industries started out as an open, irrationally exuberant, chaotic muddle of incompatible standards, crummy technology and chancers.