(1) None of them is British, though there is great anticipation about The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard's second feature, which premieres in the Directors' Fortnight .
(2) This year's London film festival has showcased such remarkable and diverse films as Richard Ayoade's The Double , Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin , David Mackenzie's Starred Up , Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant and the festival opener, Paul Greengrass's Captain Phillips .
(3) But she wrote that "good food and good company" – catching up with Michelle Obama and Laureen Harper of Canada – meant she was running late for tea at the presidential Quirinale Palace with Clio Napolitano, wife of the Italian president.
(4) I go back often to Clio Barnard’s The Arbor (2010).
(5) On Wednesday, Google won the advertiser of the year trophy at the 54th annual Clio Awards – the Oscars for advertising professionals.
(6) It has since emerged that a call was made to police later on the morning of the crash reporting that the couple’s blue Renault Clio had left the road on the M9 southbound near junction nine at Bannockburn.
(7) Today, faced with one of the greatest insults to their national pride of recent times, not one of them is building a barricade or setting fire to an overturned Renault Clio.
(8) In the early hours of 5 July, a Renault Clio crashed off the M9 motorway south of Stirling.
(9) "True," says Clio Barnard , the director, peering into the hole.
(10) Clio Barnard , acclaimed as one today's most exciting British film-makers, notes that her most recent film, The Selfish Giant, with three male protagonists, fails the test.
(11) The YouTube ad for the Renault Clio featured young people taking the car for a test drive in London, who find themselves transported to Paris scene when they push a button on the dashboard labelled "Va Va Voom".
(12) In the days before the attacks, he was spotted on CCTV footage at a service station in northern France buying soft drinks in the company of Abdeslam and at the wheel of the rented black Clio that was later used in the attacks.
(13) Clio Barnard's film The Selfish Giant has already been described as "hauntingly perfect" and "jaggedly moving" by critics as it premieres in the Director's Fortnight section of the film festival, with the director herself hailed as a significant new voice in British cinema.
(14) I'd decided not to tell any of the kids that I was pregnant during the first trimester in case it didn't work out, but I was having brunch one Sunday with Clio – my 21-year-old niece – when she went bright red and, shaping an imaginary bump around her own pancake-flat stomach, blurted out: "Naomi, I know… about the baby!"
(15) Photograph: Calderdale MBC Museums The three previous recipients of the Wellcome fellowship were the film-makers Clio Barnard, Jonathan Glazer and Carol Morley.
(16) Clio Barnard – a film-maker and contemporary of Dunbar, who grew up on the outskirts of Bradford – was intrigued by those words, and became curious to find out what had happened to Dunbar's three children in the 20 years since their mother's death.
(17) I felt a little churlish for not having told her sooner and registered in that moment that Clio has matured into an honorary sister.
(18) So to have her here, all these years later, is simply incredible.” Taking her cue from Varda’s recent speech at the European film awards, where she criticised the lack of female directors being celebrated, Smith also made a conscious effort to give British women directors such as Joanna Hogg, Clio Barnard and Carol Morley a platform, with all three speaking and screening their films as part of the festival programme.
(19) The actor told a Sunday Times interviewer that because of the age difference between himself and Jenna Coleman, 28, who plays the Time Lord's companion Clara Oswald, he had told producers he wanted no flirting or "Papa-Nicole moments", a reference to the Renault Clio TV ad campaign of the 1990s featuring a father and daughter.
(20) From The Encyclopedia of World War II, edited by Spencer C. Tucker, 2004 ABC-CLIO, LLC.
Muse
Definition:
(n.) A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
(n.) One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural.
(n.) A particular power and practice of poetry.
(n.) A poet; a bard.
(n.) To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.
(n.) To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.
(n.) To wonder.
(v. t.) To think on; to meditate on.
(v. t.) To wonder at.
(n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.
(n.) Wonder, or admiration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than his extensive musings on art and politics, Morris is perhaps better known for his wallpaper and fabric designs of the late Victorian period.
(2) But if you have less financial support, that difference does hit you.” “As a generation, I don’t think we take enough interest in what’s going on,” she muses.
(3) There’s something rather Churchillian about him,” mused one of David Davis’s admirers in a recent TV profile.
(4) I might play him at centre-forward next time,” Hodgson mused.
(5) Cotton's interview with Paloma Faith on Tuesday in which the singer plugged her latest recording and mused about royal memorabilia such as a diamond jubilee sick bag has attracted particular criticism.
(6) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
(7) When the narrative voice ventriloquises the metamorphosed Gregor to muse "Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?
(8) Asked about the status of his own job, the press secretary joked “I’m right here”, telling reporters, in a belligerent line that could have been uttered by his impersonator Melissa McCarthy: “You can keep taking your selfies.” The president was busy sowing confusion by trying a new passive-aggressive tone on Twitter , musing: “While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out.
(9) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
(10) With respect to the MUSE 11 antigen, positive incidence was found in 17 out of 26 pancreatic cancer patients (65%), and in 1 out of 13 chronic pancreatitis patients (8%).
(11) He muses that they may not have found the right approach.
(12) In the end it's maybe just cultural differences and an ability to align personal with corporate longer term goals," he muses.
(13) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
(14) This article contains personal and professional musings on becoming and being an old woman.
(15) Twin muses of Liam Gallagher and Jimi Hendrix added up to louche tailoring, flower prints and urban staples like a swagger-tastic Gallagher parka.
(16) Mixed into that are musings on Darwin and the Catholic church, a tender reflection on the death of her dog Lolabelle, and more than a few corny jokes, delivered with her hypnotic, almost disbelieving pitch.
(17) But sadly, mainstream music culture has always thrived on competition, creating what the media always calls "catfights", says Kristin Hersh, now a solo artist, but in the 80s the frontwoman of the influential American band Throwing Muses.
(18) But then you might been seen as a separatist,” the presenter mused.
(19) And last week, he let his exasperation be known on Twitter – first taking aim at the Washington Post for quoting anonymous sources while musing about his future and then chastising NBC’s Today show for producing a political package from a tour he took of an embattled housing complex in Jacksonville, Florida, subsidized by the federal government.
(20) He mused: "It's a unique opportunity for a journalist to be in this environment.