(n.) A large, edible, marine fish (Brosmius brosme), allied to the cod, common on the northern coasts of Europe and America; -- called also tusk and torsk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Between these worlds, Cusk has crafted a work of beauty and wisdom.
(2) This is my story, Cusk says, allowing no other voices that might further illuminate.
(3) CD: I don't think Rachel Cusk's book is particularly confessional.
(4) It is difficult to see where Cusk's discontent comes from when, on the face of it, she has had the cushiest of lives.
(5) Cusk writes: "My husband believed that I had treated him monstrously.
(6) Ihave never actually handled a highly strung racehorse, but that is what interviewing Rachel Cusk brings to mind.
(7) Cusk makes you think differently and look differently, even if you don't agree with what she's saying.
(8) It's only slowly, and in recent years, that the voice of the mother has come out – the odd middlebrow novel of the kind Virago and Persephone rescue ( EM Delafield or Dorothy Whipple ) and more recently Margaret Drabble , Julie Myerson , Rachel Cusk .
(9) Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, by Rachel Cusk , is published on 1 March by Faber and Faber.
(10) "Cusk anatomises motherhood as Montaigne anatomised friendship or Robert Burton anatomised melancholy ...
(11) And Rachel Cusk's "Aftermath", a tantalising excerpt from her divorce memoir, which comes out next year.
(12) Rachel Cusk may have written "childbirth and motherhood are the anvil upon which sexual inequality was forged" but using personal experience is still controversial.
(13) They say "What shines in Rachel Cusk's writing is the precision of her observation... she can pinpoint something profound with the merest detail."
(14) He still had literary supporters, with DJ Taylor, Rachel Cusk and Anne Tyler all writing admiringly of his novels, but Read had become a more marginal artistic figure, and two years ago, after completing a new novel, the thrillerish The Death of a Pope , both his publisher and agent were concerned it was too Catholic and would not appeal to a wider readership.
(15) Few figures in contemporary British literature divide people like Rachel Cusk.
(16) • The Bradhsaw Variations by Rachel Cusk is published by Faber on 3 September at £15.99 and is available from the Observer bookshop .
(17) Rachel Cusk's Aftermath might help me, guide me, support me during times of marriage breakdown.
(18) However, Rachel Cusk is not one for counting her blessings.
(19) Whether she imputes that view to the solicitor or not, Cusk still wants it both ways: we're asked to imagine her ex as such a magnificent lawyer that he managed to make her feel as though she were conscripting him, when all along, they were working to his long-game.
(20) Cusk gazes at herself unblinkingly, and judges harshly what she sees.
Lusk
Definition:
(a.) Lazy; slothful.
(n.) A lazy fellow; a lubber.
(v. i.) To be idle or unemployed.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Thursday, having spent most of the day fending off allegations relating to the SIS issue, Key told media: “I think there’s a real risk that a hacker, and people with a leftwing agenda, are trying to take an election off New Zealanders.” While Ede, Lusk and Collins have avoided talking to media, Slater, the son of a former National party president, has gone on the offensive.
(2) Days before the polls took place, the EU’s foreign minister, Federica Mogherini, said : “The upcoming elections cannot produce a credible result with legitimacy throughout the country.” “By saying the elections weren’t free and fair, [western governments] are actually saying the government is no longer legitimate by implication, which is very strong stuff in their terms,” said Gillian Lusk, associate editor of Africa Confidential .
(3) This table, developed by Lusk in 1924, was derived from biochemical and physical data that are now outdated.
(4) On the basis of the ratio of total caloric intake to resting energy expenditure (REE), the nonprotein respiratory quotient (npRQ), and, when appropriate, Lusk's table for analysis of the oxidation of mixtures of carbohydrate and fat, the patients could be categorized into three groups.
(5) Robert Lusk, director of the Natural Shoe Store, the UK distributors of Birkenstocks, talks like a man in need of shiatsu, or at least a few hundred extra boxes of sandals.
(6) Other published exchanges allegedly show Slater and his associate, political consultant Simon Lusk, discussing smear campaigns to help a client win a National candidate selection, the blackmail of a sitting MP (it never happened, the MP has since insisted) and the description of those forced from their homes after the Christchurch earthquake as “scum”.
(7) Something that doesn’t come across in the news coverage about Dirty Politics, and Cameron Slater, Jason Ede, Jordan Williams, Simon Lusk et al is just how fucking awful these people are.
(8) Lusk's bemusement at the sandals' reinvention is understandable, given their inauspiciously stolid beginnings.
(9) Referring to great scientists--Harvey, Boerhaave, Black, Priestley, Scheele, Lavoisier, Liebig, Pettenkofer, Rubner, Voit, Lusk, DuBois--the change in paradigm connected with the concepts of 'life', 'substrate intake' and 'body heat' and their underlying natural phenomena is outlined.
(10) "Birkenstocks are popular across the globe," Lusk adds, "but I think this kind of mass hysteria is a peculiarly British phenomenon.
(11) In conclusion a citation of the famous American physiologist Graham Lusk (1866-1932) is mentioned from the year 1906, who praised the scientific priority of the German medical research.
(12) Equivalent npRQ values in patients who were receiving amino acids, dextrose, and lipids were determined by using Lusk's table and the percentage of total caloric intake as fat.