(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.
Cwm
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of your journey is the Idwal Cottage youth hostel, and Cwm Idwal nature reserve.
(2) Cell wall material (CWM) was prepared from sections of fresh and aerobically-stored asparagus (Asparagus officinalis, L. cv.
(3) Early on Saturday morning, he reached the summit of Nuptse, the first and lowest of the three main summits in the Everest "horseshoe" that surrounds the glaciated valley called the Western Cwm.
(4) Nepal earthquake: death toll could reach 10,000, says PM – live updates Read more The climbers, including British guides and their clients, had been trapped at camps one and two on the mountain’s Western Cwm since Saturday, when a series of avalanches triggered by the weekend’s powerful earthquake devastated Everest base camp below them, killing 18 foreign climbers and Sherpas, and injuring 61.
(5) Steck's plan would have brought high-altitude mountaineering one step closer to one of the challenges on Everest that is often mentioned but usually dismissed as fantasy: the Everest horseshoe, climbing the entire ridge that surrounds the Western Cwm.
(6) In addition, the U3 region of CWM-S-5X contained a viral enhancer sequence that was identical to that found in MCF 247, a recombinant AKR virus that is thought to contain the Bxv-1 enhancer.
(7) Among those ferried down the mountain was Dan Mazur, a Bristol-based guide who had been stuck at camp one in the Western Cwm since Saturday.
(8) Fourfold or greater rises in anti-CWM and anti-PSSF antibodies were detected for eight of the patients with invasive candidiasis at 14 to 22 days after the onset of fever.
(9) We found that neonatal CWD mice that were injected with the phenotypic mixture of the spontaneous CWD class II env recombinant, CWM-T-15, and the AKR endogenous ecotropic virus, Akv 623, developed non-T-cell lymphomas more rapidly than controls inoculated with either virus alone or with a CWD ecotropic virus.
(10) The results indicate that (1) the two CWD class II env recombinants that were tested contained oncogenic determinants; (2) phenotypic mixing with ecotropic viruses was required for the full expression of the pathogenic potential of the CWM-T-15 recombinant; and (3) the distinct phenotypes of the CWD viruses likely reflected the differences in the origin of the viral enhancer element.
(11) Instead, they're scrubs-clad Casualty actors, lunch-breaking and lounging in the mid-June sun, overlooked by the cheerily vacant streets of long-running Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm.
(12) Polymers were solubilized from the CWM by successive extraction with cyclohexane-trans-1,2-diamine-N N N' N'-tetraacetate (CDTA), Na2CO3 and KOH to leave the alpha-cellulose residue which contained a significant amount of cross-linked pectic polysaccharides.
(13) According to reports from climbers at Everest base camp three helicopters were running shuttles into the camps in the Western Cwm above the ice fall – a jumble of ice cliffs and crevasses - where the usual climbing route, equipped with ropes and ladders, was badly damaged by Saturday’s earthquake.
(14) Finally, restriction enzyme sites in the CWM-S-5X provirus were analogous to those reported within Bxv-1.
(15) Bez now lives part-time on a commune, the Cwm Yr Heol Farm near Swansea in south Wales, where he is learning to keep bees but was back in Manchester on Tuesday to help promote the initiative.
(16) Himalayan Experience pulled its climbers and sherpas off the mountain in mid May because of the threat of falling rocks and ice, particularly in the notorious Khumbu icefall which flows downhill from the Western Cwm.
(17) Nucleotide sequence analysis of a cloned CWD xenotropic provirus, CWM-S-5X, revealed that the envelope gene was closely related to but distinct from those of other known xenotropic viruses.
(18) The service, which broadcasts programmes including Welsh soap opera Pobol-y-Cwm and live rugby union, is focused on the estimated 500,000 Welsh speakers and learners, and operates a children's zone, Cyw.
(19) She was discussing a new three-year supply agreement with the BBC including the contract for Welsh news and the channel's soap opera, Pobol-y-Cwm.
(20) For patients with no evidence of candidiasis, significant rises in anti-CWM and anti-PSSF antibodies were observed at a frequency of 20 and 10%, respectively.