(1) He numbered the Kennedy family and Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond thrillers, among his friends and spent millions on amassing a first-class art collection, featuring works by Manet and Monet, as well as Van Gogh.
(2) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(3) Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design , in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe.
(4) The windfalls - which it declined to disclose - for its founders may not quite match the sums paid to the creators of YouTube and MySpace but the $280m deal is a welcome pay off for a project that started out from one room in Whitechapel, east London .
(5) Charlize Theron is set to star opposite Seth MacFarlane in the Ted creator's new comedy western A Million Ways to Die in the West, tipped as a homage to Mel Brooks's classic movie Blazing Saddles .
(6) In the tradition of the American author Patricia Highsmith, creator of the charming psychopath Tom Ripley, Rendell used twisting plots to expose twisted minds.
(7) Unlike many music hack days, this is a commercial contest: the winning hack – as judged by Slash, BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen and investor Ben Parr – will earn its creator an autographed guitar, $1,000 and “the chance to have Slash use the winning hack with the release of his new album”.
(8) It was intended, according to its creator, as a “warning to America”, a horrifying and fantastical vision of the future in which the US – ludicrously – had elected as its president Donald Trump .
(9) Invariably in these films the visuals are scrupulously authentic, but the "message" is very much in line with the values of their human creators.
(10) The single-celled organism has four "watermarks" written into its DNA to identify it as synthetic and help trace its descendants back to their creator, should they go astray.
(11) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
(12) Allen announced a new comedy, Puppy Love, set in a dog training class, written by the creators of acclaimed Jo Brand sitcom Getting On.
(13) • Facebook gets in a row with games firm Zenimax over who actually owns key parts of technology behind Oculus Rift, with Doom-creator John Carmack at its heart
(14) Even the Teletubbies’ creator, Anne Wood – the Steven Spielberg of children’s TV – told the Radio Times she was “a bit sad” about the remake.
(15) Earlier, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications; creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner.
(16) At a reception for the couple, the series's creator, Søren Sveistrup, said: "Prince Charles told me it was Camilla who introduced him to The Killing.
(17) Instead, the company explained: "It’s a new way for creators and audiences to work together to make things."
(18) Harman's comments, in an interview in Total Politics magazine , come after The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci said the licence fee should be axed in favour of subscription , with the BBC funding homegrown programmes by "ruthlessly" selling content abroad.
(19) It may not appear to be one of the most hazardous preschool programmes on television, but the creator of children's favourite Charlie and Lola has revealed how the show caused anxiety among BBC executives – over a forward roll.
(20) Jason Puncheon is a lovely, careful passer of the ball and here he out-Cesc’ed Chelsea’s own midfield creator for long periods of the game, strolling about to great effect in his central playmaker role.
Creature
Definition:
(n.) Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.
(n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.
(n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
(n.) A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(2) "They are soul-less creatures pandering to the NRA ."
(3) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(4) While his more eminent predecessors, Gerald Durrell and John Aspinall, established that displaying wild creatures may occasionally be compatible with respect for them, zoos around the world have also sanitised – with extravagant claims about conservation, breeding programmes and species reintroduction – the essentially unchanged business of showing caged animals for cash.
(5) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
(6) Although most studies emphasise the similarity of the australopithecines to modern man, and suggest, therefore, that these creatures were bipedal tool-makers at least one form of which (Australopithecus africanus--"Homo habilis", "Homo africanus") was almost directly ancestral to man, a series of multivariate statistical studies of various postcranial fragments suggests other conclusions.
(7) Highlights included TV series All Creatures Great and Small, competing in Strictly Come Dancing and starring in the touring stage production of Calendar Girls.
(8) They are two separate creatures with very different structures, more like a virus and a host: co-dependent but each with delusions about who is the superior form of life.
(9) Like traditional English philanthropists, the ladies running Hailsham believe that some wider public will feel more humanely towards these "poor creatures" if they can be shown to make art.
(10) Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation expresses it thus: "From the Pythagoreans onward, through the Renaissance to our times, the oceanic feeling, the sense of participation in the mystery of the infinite, was the principal inspiration of the wingèd and flat-footed creature, the scientist."
(11) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
(12) They could hardly believe it, this tiny creature sitting on the bench.
(13) The film uses new technology to transport viewers back 200 million years, to the time when pterosaurs lived – flying creatures with a wingspan of up to 14 metres.
(14) The unfairly maligned camel is a model of sleek, practical and elegant design compared with the clumsy creature the coalition has produced.
(15) When Rolls-Royce launched a $1.2m Year of the Dragon edition of its Phantom, with the creature hand-painted on its wheelbase and hand-stitched on to cushions, all eight sold in two months.
(16) Many of the patients anthropomorphise the seal, enjoy pretending that it is a real, living creature, with all the associated foibles.
(17) Executives at Lafarge global headquarters in Paris should take note that the second part of the name allocated by the molusc specialists who named this new creature is lafargei.
(18) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any other creatures that we don’t routinely eat.
(19) Records show there were many reports of beaching whales in the Netherlands in the early 17th century, prompting a surge of public interest in the creatures.
(20) Sir David suggested spyholes to allow the public to watch the gorillas without the creatures realising they were being observed, but he didn’t seem entirely convinced by his own idea.