(n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.
(n.) A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil .
(2) Celebrities from Justin Bieber to Spike Lee were on hand for the opening of a spectacle that mixes circus tricks with the music of the late King of Pop – a pairing that has already proved lucrative for Cirque on the road with the arena show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour .
(3) At the moment, she's making Kings Of Leon look like Cirque Du Soleil.
(4) But the past year has already been trying for the Cirque family in other ways – and families of Cirque performers.
(5) Coca-Cola, Nike, Cirque du Soleil and a few others have signed up, he says, because they want the data and the relationship with consumers.
(6) Attempts to trim costs have filtered down to the permanent shows running in Las Vegas as well, even as Cirque has gone ahead with the opening of new projects such as Michael Jackson ONE.
(7) She had too much of a sense of humour for Cirque du Soleil – the funniest thing ever seen in its ring was the shocking pink octopus outfit she did for its Varekai season in 2002 – but was perfectly suited to creating visuals for David Copperfield prestidigitating on Broadway in 1996, and for Grace Jones touring in 2009.
(8) Saturday 29 June was supposed to be the day that Cirque du Soleil turned the page on recent financial and artistic setbacks, and sent a message that it was still the most powerful player in live entertainment in Las Vegas.
(9) Directed by Robert Lepage, Quebec's second most-famous theatrical export after Cirque, Kà is known for two things: its record-breaking budget, an estimated $165 million (more than twice that of Broadway's budget-smashing, accident-prone musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark ); and its gravity-defying battle scenes, one called "The Wheel of Death", and another in which the massive stage flips up 90 degrees and performers fly out towards the audience.
(10) At Electric Daisy Carnival and similar dance festivals, the look has evolved from the child-like "candy raver" of the 1990s, with their pigtails and cuddly toys and pacifiers (dummies), to a slick and sexified yet also kitschy-surreal image midway between Venice Beach and Cirque Du Soleil, Willy Wonka and a Gay Pride parade: girls in Daisy Dukes and bikini tops (or even bare breasts daubed in glittery body paint) but who also wear tutus, giant furry boots in turquoise and hot pink, and fairy wings.
(11) The timing of the incident, as well as being a tragedy for Guyard-Guillot's friends, colleagues and family, was doubly cruel for Cirque – which has been trying to get its momentum back after it had to lay off 400 employees this winter owing to a string of under-performing shows.
(12) Still, halfway through 2013, with its 30th anniversary swiftly approaching, Cirque du Soleil now finds itself nursing two blows to a reputation that for the first quarter century of its existence was iron-clad.
(13) There will be two theatres in the complex and the opening show, masterminded by Franco Dragone, a Cirque du Soleil director, will be a fable about a boy's search for flight.
(14) Sky One had a good night elsewhere, with a new episode of US drama Lost between 10pm and 11pm scoring 1.1 million viewers, while the final of reality talent show Cirque de Celebrité pulled in an average of 643,000 viewers from 7pm, peaking at 838,000.
(15) But even though this "mezzanine-style sleeping area" seems best suited to a rather narrow rental market of petite Cirque du Soleil performers, lettings agent Alex Marks said it had received 50 to 60 inquiries about the property, due to its sought-after location half a mile from trendy Kentish Town in north London .
(16) In a 2009 study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers from six Canadian and American universities examined five years of data for Cirque, and found the company's injury rates less than those for college gymnastics.
(17) This is not actually the first death on Cirque's watch.
(18) Lea, the 41-year-old son of a Lancashire hairdresser and engineer who is known for hosting parties featuring Cirque de Soleil dancers and sushi served off the bodies of near-naked women at his Californian beach house , was blasé about the fivefold return his private equity firm made on the deal.
(19) Of Mitt Romney’s multiple positions on the auto-bailout, Clinton said: "He’s tied himself up in so many knots, he could be hired as the chief contortionist of Cirque du Soleil.” There were two moments of almost imperceptible tension.
(20) But just as Cirque du Soleil's box-office success is no longer certain – the company has suffered a string of disappointments in Las Vegas, New York, Los Angeles and in Asia over the past five years, as it tried to expand too quickly amid a recession – its safety record will now be subject to greater scrutiny.
Corrie
Definition:
(n.) Same as Correi.
Example Sentences:
(1) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
(2) Rachel Corrie died trying to protect a Palestinian home from demolition [see footnote].
(3) He went on to heap blame on Corrie for her own killing, arguing that, contrary to what "any reasonable person would have done", she "chose to put herself in danger" by trying to impede "a military activity meant to prevent terrorist activity".
(4) All of this, writes McGreal, shows how "covering up the truth about the killings of innocents, including Corrie, became an important part of the survival strategy because of the damage the truth could do to the military's standing, not only in the rest of the world but also among Israelis."
(5) Corrie was struck by dirt and a slab of concrete resulting in her death."
(6) As the family of Rachel Corrie are the first to admit, Gazan families who have lost their children have had no opportunity of taking legal action against Israel.
(7) For all the shows that made her into a household name – beginning with At Home With the Braithwaites, greenlit in 1999 – it was writing for Corrie, from 1994, that made her feel “I’d been noticed by the industry.
(8) You can imagine therefore how thrilled I was when Katherine Kelly – the former Becky Granger in Corrie, who spent six years wailing mournfully then angrily then mournfully again on the cobbles – turns up here as the stony-faced DI Shackleton.
(9) Tonight the Rachel Corrie, an Irish vessel crewed by supporters of the Free Gaza movement, remained on course for Gaza.
(10) Scott & Bailey was an idea that she touted when she first left Corrie, but it didn't see the light of day until 2011.
(11) The Doctors and Overpopulation Group is distressed by the attempt of Mr. Corrie to amend England's 1967 Abortion Act and recommends that members of the medical profession individually inform their representatives in Parliament of their support for the 1967 Act.
(12) "In the interest of the safety of all involved, and the safe transmission of assistance to the people of Gaza, we strongly encourage those on board the Rachel Corrie and other vessels to sail to Ashdod to deliver their materials to Gaza," he said.
(13) While she was in the Palestinian territories , Corrie wrote vividly about her experiences.
(14) There is a particular entry in Rachel Corrie’s diary, probably written some time in 1999, four years before she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes.
(15) Jones admits that she and Corrie co-star Sally Lindsay came up with the concept for the show in the pub, and explains how her own character is reflected in her on-screen persona.
(16) The family of the American activist Rachel Corrie , who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago, is to bring a civil suit over her death against the Israeli defence ministry.
(17) At a meeting at the US embassy in Tel Aviv last week, the ambassador, Dan Shapiro, told Corrie's parents and her sister that the government did not believe the Israeli military investigation had been "thorough, credible and transparent", as had been promised by Israel.
(18) Dan Corry, chief executive, NPC "Remuneration in the voluntary sector and particularly the issue of chief executive pay has always been controversial.
(19) The Free Gaza Movement said later that one of the ships in the flotilla, the Irish-owned MV Rachel Corrie, was not intercepted, as it had been behind the rest of the vessels following a delay.
(20) Even if they had the means to do so, the law has been amended to stop civil actions like the one the Corries mounted.