(n.) A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat.
(n.) A composition of drugs.
(n.) A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection.
(2) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
(3) Quite often, when the media reports a coalition "row" between the Tories and the Lib Dems, it has been confected by one or both of them because someone thinks it suits them to be seen on opposing sides of an issue.
(4) Apart from the confected row about the renewal of Trident , the two main parties seem curiously indifferent to what is going on beyond Britain’s shores, unless it involves immigration.
(5) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
(6) It is surely one of the intellectual catastrophes of history that an imperialist war confected by a small group of unelected US officials was waged against a devastated third world dictatorship on thoroughly ideological grounds having to do with world dominance, security control and scarce resources, but disguised for its true intent, hastened and reasoned for by orientalists who betrayed their calling as scholars.
(7) MIA emerged on the music scene in the mid-2000s, the perfect antidote to confection pop.
(8) Such metaphysical questions underlie the confection of her plot.
(9) In view of the considerable sales success of sugarless confections, accounting for over an estimated 30,000,000 lbs.
(10) On the other hand, the mutagen-negative diet was significantly frequent in fresh vegetables, cooked potatoes, cooked carrots, milk, bean curd, devils' tongue and confections.
(11) Fifty monkeys were fed SMA, a formula designed for human infants (9% protein, 43% carbohydrate, and 48% fat); 46 were fed one of three laboratory-confected diets varying in the amount of protein and carbohydrates provided.
(12) In 1987’s No Way Out, she glints brilliantly in a Hitchcocky confection.
(13) The results confirmed that Lycasin would be preferred to sucrose as a sweetener for confections and medicines, although some softening of enamel by Lycasin was evident when compared to the saline controls.
(14) Andy Burnham , Caroline Flint – sensible Labour falls over itself to show who is the most realistic, where realism stands for accepting without question a vision of the country confected by their opponents.
(15) Most that claimed "Jeremy thinks" and "Jeremy is furious with Vince" turned out to be – so Hunt insisted – exaggerated by Michel or mere recycled titbits confected by Smith to feed the News Corp beast.
(16) Whether this highly aerated, minimally nutritious confection was actually invented in the United States or here remains fiercely contested, though sadly the myth that Margaret Thatcher was involved in its creation while working as a research chemist at the food conglomerate J Lyons & Co has been fairly thoroughly debunked.
(17) Apart from the approach routes, particular features of the technique used were essentially the size of the frontal flap extending to orbital roof, and mainly the confection of a pericranial flap formed of epicranial aponeurosis lined with frontoparietal periosteum and pedunculated at the orbital border.
(18) Others argue that the sense of a sectarian crisis – most notably over Syria – has been confected by the Assad regime.
(19) A controversial issue will often bring a blizzard of identikit protest of apparently confected anger but while clearly this lobby was organised most of the emails and letters we received were personal and heartfelt.
(20) I know what you're thinking: Christmas DVDs, promotional tours, robotically confected controversy … none of these really feel like the answer to the question: "What would Spartacus do?"
Literary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.
(a.) Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.
Example Sentences:
(1) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
(2) Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn.
(3) The cytologic findings can be considered to be satisfactory in regard to literary data.
(4) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
(5) It became his task to use his literary art in an opposite way to Hesse, even though he despaired of what literature might achieve or of the capacity of rich Europeans to change.
(6) But we can add that there is no competition, from the economical viewpoint, between the post-oedipal sublimation, type political involvement, and the preoedipal sublimation, type literary creation.
(7) Literary agent Andrew Kidd said: "I have nothing against readability but some books are more challenging.
(8) He moved on to Tunis and Paris, and became editor-in-chief of the influential literary review Al-Karmel.
(9) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(10) She sent the finished manuscript to Elaine Greene , a London literary agent.
(11) She also won four Logies for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill in 2013, the George Munster award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award – for stories on people smuggling and the culture of rugby league.
(12) Every time he felt the futility of his work for the NAACP, he’d finger the well-worn pages, and it would strengthen his resolve.” This is how classics of this calibre work their way into the literary bloodstream.
(13) Like many ambitious young writers, he sought both popular success and literary acclaim.
(14) His favourite literary genres as a child were detective stories and Greek myths.
(15) But also, in the sense that they crossed over the line of the acceptable literary and visual culture and brought the Mexican modern movement into being.
(16) We arrive also to the conclusion that, in contradiction with what we have seen in the literature overview, it seems that narcissistic personality disorders have no negative effect on literary creation.
(17) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
(18) You may not know it, but literary ghosts are everywhere.
(19) The literary data on the reexamination of the holotype are given.
(20) Despite our difference in generation, gender and literary purpose, it was clear to me that he and I were both working with some of the same aesthetic influences: film, surrealist art and poetry; Freud's avant-garde theories of the unconscious.