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Curio


Definition:

  • (n.) Any curiosity or article of virtu.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first museums on history of nature were opened in early Enlightenment and had originated from baroque curio galleries at most of the European courts.
  • (2) Even their first win in the north London derby since 1999 is a curio for the statisticians.
  • (3) • Doubles from €56 B&B, +34 913 694 643, hostalpersal.com Artistic B&B Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artsy Argentinians Paola and Rodolfo renovated a pensión in a 200-year-old building in the city’s Literary Quarter to create this snug, idiosyncratic B&B, decorated with rescued and restored furniture, curios from their world travels and Paola’s ceramics.
  • (4) On a recent Monday, the market's alleyways, flanked by rows of shops selling curios, were empty of customers.
  • (5) But without the infrastructure to produce and distribute hydrogen as a fuel, these vehicles are little more than curios.
  • (6) (Although Zschäpe’s mother later reported that she was concerned when she heard that Mundlos’s grandfather collected Nazi curios.)
  • (7) He was entitled to the jubilation, but for neutrals his triumph was no more than a statistical curio.
  • (8) • 100 North San Francisco Street, +1 928 779 6971, hotelmontevista.com 13 The Museum Club, Flagstaff, Arizona This log cabin was built in 1931 as a taxidermy curio cabinet and became a roadhouse in 1939.
  • (9) More a desert encampment, an assembly of mismatched seating, pallet decking, curios (skulls, art, a mannequin dressed as a pirate), it sits among shrubbery off a sandy track – coloured lights, the sounds of motorbikes and the music of the 1970s are the only clues to its existence.
  • (10) This former residence of politician, polymath and billionaire hoarder the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo, has resplendent rooms jammed with ancient artefacts, priceless masters, oriental curios and an armoury worthy of a warlord.
  • (11) He's right, of course, but it's the history and the curios that most interest Gatiss, with an examination of German expressionism bleeding into a look at postwar France's cinematic self-reflection and beyond.
  • (12) Gorgeous, snow-topped Switzerland with its adorable cuckoo clocks didn’t allow women to vote until 1971 But foot-binding is not merely a historical curio: although it was banned in 1912, it persisted in some rural areas into the 1930s, and there are still women alive in China today with the crushed arches, deformed toes and rotting folds of skin that characterised bound feet.
  • (13) And with no home stadium confirmed for the long-anticipated second New York MLS team (and the path towards one strewn with New York political obstacles), the sight of the Yankees pitching mound bisected by a touchline may be less of a curio and more of a blueprint for what Major League Soccer will initially look like when NYCFC starts play in 2015.
  • (14) Her house was like a studio, bits of art everywhere, big glass cabinet of curios and treasured possessions, a chaise longue – the works.” Her life was quieter later on and her neighbours didn’t necessarily know who Knight was or what she had achieved.
  • (15) More than £4m was raised and spent on two curios with the justification of "cultural value", yet since your Tories came to power, your nation has been shutting libraries, cutting arts funding and talking about further downsizing the BBC.
  • (16) In MLS, he had a chance to mature as a player and as a man; rather than disappear into history as a curio, the American would-be striker who had a cup of coffee in the Bundesliga.
  • (17) There are also quite a few hidden curios, such as the two newspaper cuttings reporting a dramatic incident at the Ballard home in 1959: "Three-year-old Jimmy Ballard and his sister, Fay, two, [were] taken to hospital unconscious after a disused gas pipe fractured in the nursery of their home at The Hermitage, Richmond, today [...] Mr and Mrs Ballard gave the children artificial respiration until the ambulance arrived."
  • (18) His previous film, well-received horror curio The Orphanage, showed he can handle World War Z-style shocks.
  • (19) Shops go out of business quickly, but stalwarts include The Cottage of Arts and Jewels, a dusty basement selling vintage Bollywood posters, ancient Indian maps, texts and curios; Elma’s , a quaint tea shop, complete with grandfather clock, lace lampshades and bone china; and Country Collection , an antiques shop selling rare and imaginatively reworked furniture at reasonable prices.
  • (20) Brian Cannon of the design company Microdot made one notable cassingle curio: the cassette version of Oasis's Cigarettes and Alcohol , made up to look, and open, like a packet of 20 cigarettes.

Interesting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interest
  • (a.) Engaging the attention; exciting, or adapted to excite, interest, curiosity, or emotion; as, an interesting story; interesting news.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
  • (2) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
  • (3) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
  • (4) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
  • (5) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
  • (6) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
  • (7) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (8) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
  • (9) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
  • (10) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
  • (11) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
  • (12) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
  • (13) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
  • (14) And the irony of it is it doesn't interest me at all.
  • (15) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
  • (16) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (17) Our interest in the role of association brain structures during this behavior is not occasional.
  • (18) Apart from their pathogenic significance, these results may have some interest for the clinical investigation of patients with joint diseases.
  • (19) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (20) Interestingly, different mechanisms of nucleated and non-nucleated TC directed lysis by CD4+ effectors were implied by distinct patterns of sensitivity to cholera toxin (CT) and cyclosporin A (CsA).

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