(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.
Twinkle
Definition:
(v. i.) To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink.
(v. i.) To shine with an intermitted or a broken, quavering light; to flash at intervals; to sparkle; to scintillate.
(n.) A closing or opening, or a quick motion, of the eye; a wink or sparkle of the eye.
(n.) A brief flash or gleam, esp. when rapidly repeated.
(n.) The time of a wink; a twinkling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doesn’t it ever need a break?” “Maybe it likes it,” he shoots back, a twinkle in his eye.
(2) The Scottish defence did well not to panic, there, as Walcott's twinkle-toed run had penalty written all over it.
(3) In the study involving 24 women in the final few months of pregnancy, half were asked to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to their foetuses for five days a week.
(4) Maybe you understand the twinkling of the stars, the falling of objects to earth or what it takes to be an astronaut, or you’ve battled a dragon or discovered just how stinky the stinky past could be in a horrible history.
(5) He has this hilarious, very dry sense of humour, and just before I left, I said to him, ‘So what do you think?’ And he typed out, ‘I wish you luck.’ And then, with this really cheeky twinkle in his eye, added, ‘But not too much.’” Demis Hassabis gives me his own disarming smile.
(6) She had moved on from playing loud, blousy, funny girls on television ( Twinkle in Dinnerladies with Victoria Wood , and Veronica in Shameless ) to complex, heavy-duty characters (Myra Hindley in See No Evil ) and sophisticated, career-driven women (barrister Martha Costello in Peter Moffat’s Silk ).
(7) He reminded me of Fulton Mackay, who played the fierce jailer in Porridge, though without the actor's humorous twinkle.
(8) We’ll definitely show that on the day.” There was a twinkle in his eye and a slight grin on his face but Bale, make no mistake, was deadly serious.
(9) "I haven't read the newspapers," Simon twinkled during an X Factor press conference in LA on Thursday, which was bizarrely described by one media outlet as "ill-timed".
(10) I should warn you,” she said, twinkling, “I’ve met all my best friends in the front rows of shows.” We exchanged phones and “added” each other on Facebook.
(11) Since the magnitude of the changes in flow distributions was the same after 4 min as it was in several hours, we conclude that much of the "twinkling" is a high frequency phenomenon occurring over seconds to a few minutes.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest As Twinkle in Dinnerladies – it was Victoria Wood who told her she would be typecast if she didn’t lose weight.
(13) It was with the Emilia-Romagna outfit that Berardi first broke through as a twinkle-toed teenager and it is with them that he remains, in spite of a goalscoring record that even the greats would envy.
(14) He's just twinkled his way into the box and then spread panic among the Chelsea defenders with a cross that cannoned off two of them before Cole cleared.
(15) It's been around for less than a year, yet Heidi Thomas's wildly successful period drama feels as if it's been with us forever, with each episode essentially a yuletide special in miniature, laden with air-punching nuns and twinkling tales of placentas past.
(16) They made one video, a 30-second version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star , which was watched about 15,000 times in the first month after its release in August 2011.
(17) The other members of the Justice League remain superpowered twinkles in the studio's eye (bar The Green Lantern, who's more of an unattractive snot-like stain after the debacle of Martin Campbell's 2011 non-event ).
(18) Along the path runs a silhouetted Pip, the last vestiges of sunlight again twinkling off the water as he passes two unoccupied gallows, a sorry bunch of dry flowers in one hand, clouds smeared across the sky like oil paint.
(19) Oak-panelled walls are hung with hunting scenes and pre-independence state crests, while the chandeliers twinkle.
(20) The United team was strong on paper, with Rooney and Van Persie supported by the twinkle-toed Juan Mata and Adnan Januzaj.