(1) Bafétimbi Gomis should have done better than head a mishit Sigurdsson shot into the side netting after the interval and was made to pay when Eriksen, after Alli had been fouled again in an identical area, cracked in his coruscating second goal.
(2) Marr may have copped flak, but the incident was an early example of how Cameron – an old Etonian who also professes to adore the Jam's coruscating The Eton Rifles – can be light on detail.
(3) My thoughts are with Jeremy’s family and friends as they try and come to terms with their loss.” Sir Menzies Campbell, the former Lib Dem leader, said: “Jeremy Thorpe’s enforced resignation as leader of the Liberal party and his subsequent departure from parliament should not obscure the fact that in his day he was an outstanding parliamentarian with a coruscating wit, and a brilliant campaigner on the stump whose interest and warmth made him a firm favourite with the public.” • This article was amended on 5 December 2014 to attribute two paragraphs to Wikipedia.
(4) The earlier version used the word "coruscating" where "excoriating" was meant.
(5) Abbado has talked of the choral finale of the Second Symphony - the "Resurrection", Mahler's coruscating vision of spiritual rebirth - as a metaphor for his own musical experience.
(6) A long association with Hall began at the National Theatre in 1987, when he played a coruscating half-hour interrogation scene with Maggie Smith in Hall’s production of Coming in to Land by Poliakoff; he was a Dostoeyvskyan immigration officer, Smith a desperate, and despairing, Polish immigrant.
(7) A coruscating burst of fast-twitch fibres, a victory grin as wide as the Clyde and then a regal bow from the king of sprinting – Usain Bolt has tasted far greater glories than this, his first Commonwealth Games gold medal, but the way he celebrated Jamaica’s 4x100m relay title on a soggy night in Glasgow one would never have known.
(8) As Simon Goldhill has observed in his coruscating Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives (2004), they exhibited this aim first and foremost in their attitudes to the body.
(9) Initially, I wanted to write one to fully capture McCarthy's coruscating lilt – but Hillcoat didn't want it.
(10) Side-effects typical for 'specific bradycardic agents', such as coruscation were seen.
(11) Or the 2012 final, when Arjen Robben's knees rattled together so violently that for a while it was thought Lionel 'Hot Mallets' Hampton had risen from the dead to bang out one last particularly coruscating vibraphone solo.
(12) As the play ratcheted up to a coruscating finale, we, the audience, were made to see the enormous value of the rights we'd handed over as the mere cost of life in the 21st century (who, we were asked, had read the iTunes privacy policy?
(13) The best-case scenario manufactured by Australian bureaucrats would liken parts of China to resemble the planet Coruscant from the Star Wars movies (the political centre of the galaxy, whose surface is covered by an entire city).
(14) Yet all the momentum is with Brendan Rodgers's team after this epic, coruscating match in which they still had the competitive courage to record their 10th straight win despite the jolt of seeing a 2-0 half-time lead wiped out.
(15) He claimed that his television biography of Mark Twain was dropped by a nervous network because of Twain’s coruscating criticism of the American financial establishment.
(16) He had caused permanent damage to the latter’s reputation in responding to the dismissal of seven cabinet ministers in the 1962 Night of the Long Knives with an adaptation of the words of St John: “Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.” Thorpe’s idea of heaven was a reception or dinner, attended by the great and good, where his coruscating wit could be appreciated by the most powerful in the land, or, preferably, the most powerful in Europe or the world.
Spangle
Definition:
(n.) A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress.
(n.) Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless.
(v. t.) To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled breastplate.
(v. i.) To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the interim, Phil cut the solo albums Star Spangled Springer (1973), Phil's Diner (1974) and Mystic Line (1975), and appeared on Roy Wood's album Mustard and on Zevon's debut album in 1976.
(2) Kaepernick and Reid dropped to one knee while a naval officer sang The Star-Spangled Banner and dozens of military members unfurled an oversize flag at the Chargers’ Qualcomm stadium.
(3) 1.29am BST National Anthem It's Game 7 so it's time to break out the big gun: The best Star Spangled Banner of all time.
(4) Alex McClintock (@axmcc) @LengelDavid @GdnUSsports @Busfield of course I will, it's going to be all about the #socks April 12, 2014 5.04am BST Star Spangled Banner It's Ashanti - and she's done it before as well.
(5) Apart from a recent Gay Pride parade performance of The Star-Spangled Banner , this will be Gaga's first gig since she cancelled 21 tour dates in February.
(6) By 1849, when the xenophobic “Order of the Star Spangled Banner” society was formed in New York to back nativist candidates, anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant tensions were running high and, over the next few years, the Know Nothings coalesced, winning numerous local and state elections.
(7) The two TV presenters broadcasting from the crowd – she in a gold-spangled minidress and rigid curls, him dour in black tie – shot baleful looks in his direction as he carried on honking.
(8) For The Star Spangled Banner, the Americans turn slightly to their left to face their flag, each player with one hand on his heart and the other on the left shoulder of the player in front of them.
(9) And after that terrible September morning when your homeland was attacked, the Coldstream guards at Buckingham Palace played the Star Spangled Banner.
(10) James McHenry, M.D., whose name is best known for the fort immortalized in the Star Spangled Banner, was one of the early members of Med Chi.
(11) They all stood together for the Star-Spangled Banner before dancing to Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA.
(12) I know, no Keith Moon, but still.... 12.58am BST The Star-Spangled Banner It's national anthem time, which means that first pitch is drawing nearer.
(13) Preparations for the visit have dominated local news for the past week: with security agents on rooftops, sniffer dogs on the ground and a Thai military band learning The Star-Spangled Banner in readiness for the first stop in Obama's three-country tour of the region that underscores his interest in pivoting US foreign policy towards the Pacific.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obamas attend baseball game in Cuba with Raúl Castro By the time to two met again at the baseball stadium on Tuesday – listening to The Star Spangled Banner played for a second time in a city once threatened with American nuclear annihilation – there was even a flicker of warmth between them.
(15) Assimilation makes you stand up straight and recite the Star-Spangled Banner, forcing you to do push-ups when you can’t stop rolling your Rs.
(16) Britney Spears, mother of two, spangled-bikini wearer?
(17) 2.04am BST Tradition every NBA Finals from me: Marvin Gaye singing the Star Spangled Banner will get things kicked off from here.
(18) We’re treated to parachute teams carrying POW flags, fireworks displays, misty-eyed tributes, and a black Navy man, petty officer Steven Powell, singing the Star-Spangled Banner and God Bless America.
(19) 3.12am BST Kick Off And we're underway... 3.11am BST Anthems and such: The Azerbaijan anthem has just drifted past us, and now the US fans are belting out a lustily out of synch version of the Star Spangled Banner, as their team clutch their hands to their breasts stoically.
(20) Approximately 12,500 parade participants danced, spangled and strutted on stilettos past a crowd of hundreds of thousands gathered to watch the celebration.