(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.
Tarn
Definition:
(n.) A mountain lake or pool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly, increases in HK activity were seen in sADN-tARN rats in all the above structures except MS, Nc, and DMH, where no changes were observed, and dArc, where an increase in HK activity was noted.
(2) This unexpected result was followed by the more surprising finding that the incidence of resistance was even higher in the bacterial populations of two remote upland tarns.
(3) Sticking to low levels, you meander along tracks, paths and across pretty bridges while admiring the peaks and scattering of mountain lakes, known as tarns.
(4) It is hoped the animals will recolonise the tarn and its surrounding streams, and play an important part in the ecosystem, grazing and burrowing into areas of the riverbank and allowing rare plants to grow, including mosses and liverworts that need patches of open habitat.
(5) This study was based on the examination of 26,374 salaried adult patients during a 12 months period in the Tarn-et-Garonne Regional Industrial Medecine Service.
(6) Little Molas Lake Campground, San Juan national forest People flock to Little Molas ostensibly for its proximity to Andrews Lake, a high-altitude tarn stocked with rainbow and brook trout.
(7) +33 4 6743 8734, lesdemoisellesdupuy.fr brightsue Les Chalets du Tarn, Réquista Before you've pitched your tent at this campsite, the friendly owner invites you to dine.
(8) Britain’s endangered water voles will reach new heights when they are returned to Yorkshire’s Malham tarn for the first time in 50 years.
(9) As a child, my parents would often take me on treks among the ethereal alpine forests of Tasmania’s central highlands; where ragged pencil pines sit beside bogs and tarns.
(10) Roisin Black, a National Trust ranger at Malham tarn, said: “In the rest of Europe, water voles are common.
(11) Protesters opposed to the Sivens dam project in the Tarn region say it will destroy a reservoir of biodiversity and will benefit only a small number of farmers.
(12) According to the property website seloger.com, Albi in the south-west Tarn region takes the prize for France's biggest price drop – a massive 18%.
(13) The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis was observed to have a significant decrease in hexokinase activity in the tARN groups, as were the caudal and medial aspects of the nucleus of the solitary tract.
(14) In contrast, the increased HK activity after either tADN or tARN alone was returned to levels not different from sADN-sARN rats in all structures in the tADN-tARN rats, except MnPO, mpPVH, and dArc, where the level of HK activity was only attenuated, and MS, POA, and vArc, where it remained elevated.
(15) The incidence of antibiotic resistance in aquatic bacteria isolated from Windermere was, however, lower than in those isolated from two remote upland tarns.
(16) The upland tarns were not totally isolated from man and other animals but did not receive any sewage or other effluents and therefore the results were surprising.
(17) Here is a section from his exploration of the streams and lakes of the Rhinogs, a remote mountain group in North Wales: Searching the map, I had seen some promising upland streams, a waterfall, and a tarn, so I hiked off uphill through the bracken.
(18) Scales Fell was the popular Boxing Day choice, the splendid ridge that soars to the 2,848ft summit above its tarn, deep in the bosom of Blencathra.
(19) In the 3-day tARN group only, a significant decrease in hexokinase activity was observed in the region of the brainstem containing the A5 cell group, compared with sARN animals.
(20) The design of the Millau Viaduct, the superb new motorway bridge across the Tarn Gorge in the south of France, is credited to Norman Foster.