(1) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
(2) The dazzling Deulofeu was the instigator of the first.
(3) Dell'Utri managed the 1994 campaign – a dazzling phantasmagoria of dancing girls under the lights, while he saw to the shadows.
(4) In line with his modest and humble public image, Francis exhibits a strong taste for Italian neorealist cinema, which eschewed Hollywood razzle-dazzle and told morally powerful stories set among the working class.
(5) Police officers resigned and politicians were embarrassed as the scandal erupted, but Scotland Yard – with dazzling cynicism – has reacted by trying to silence the kind of police whistleblowers who helped to expose the failures of their leaders; and ambitious politicians continue to dine with Rupert Murdoch.
(6) The script and characters were brought together with great writing and meticulous research and the abundant oversimplification was entirely forgivable for the dazzling human drama.
(7) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
(8) However, when it came to the burning question of Trump Jr’s would-be dealings with Russia, the US president acted like an American in Paris who is high on champagne, dazzled by the sights and eager to get to dinner at the Eiffel Tower.
(9) As well as enhancing the author's fame and credibility, the meeting helped set Bowie's trajectory for the next few years – a series of dazzling physical and artistic changes that would not slow until the early 1980s.
(10) It is in two senses a dazzling work, which leaves the mind's eye scorched into strangeness.
(11) For the boy in ragged trousers, who had to struggle right up to the time De Wet removed him from the world of financial responsibility, money was dazzling.
(12) Dazzle glare resulting from the accumulation of cystine crystals in ocular tissue may account for glare disability seen in these patients and contribute to their complaints of photophobia.
(13) When I was a boy, people thought our technological limit was reached with the dazzling Flying Scotsman's train engine.
(14) World Cup fans were dazzled this summer by Howard’s performances in Brazil, which included a record-setting 16 saves in a second-round match the USA nonetheless lost, 2-1 in extra time, to Belgium.
(15) It's easy to see Bruckheimer as Hollywood's Simon Cowell , churning out hollow razzle-dazzle for the multiplex masses, most of it based on pre-existing properties.
(16) The British Retail Consortium said shops enjoyed a "dazzling" week before Christmas and the best month of sales since January last year, but it believes much of the sales surge was created by bargain hunting.
(17) The Bilbao Guggenheim is a treaty port negotiated with the burghers of this rather down-at-heel city, part bullion vault and part glimmering mirage to cow and dazzle the natives.
(18) If the argument is that because she is an internationally renowned star, and, therefore, Madonna believes she deserved to be treated differently from other visiting foreigners, it is worth making her aware that Malawi has hosted many international stars, including Chuck Norris, Bono, David James, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville who have never demanded state attention or decorum despite their equally dazzling stature.
(19) If Hollande's Sunday rally was aimed at injecting some dazzle into what critics have called an unexciting campaign, the manifesto launch marked Hollande's return to the careful, number-crunching technocrat who ran the Socialist party for 11 years.
(20) He explained to his educated readers how these elaborate, glass-fronted, gas-lit buildings were “perfectly dazzling when contrasted with the darkness and dirt” of the street, thereby luring in many locals.
Disenchanted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Disenchant
Example Sentences:
(1) Ukip has provided a protest vote for disenchanted Tories , just as – up until the moment when David Cameron promised Nick Clegg a rose garden – the Lib Dems provided an alternative to Labour.
(2) Is Sisi’s UK visit going to fill my car with gas?’ A lot of people are increasingly disenchanted with the government, simply because it is failing to live up to its own illusions of grandeur.” Among the disenchanted are thousands of workers in the critical textiles sector who are striking over pay and conditions.
(3) The other, bigger worry, though, is among the disenchanted still living in deprived areas in Dundee, Edinburgh and pockets elsewhere in Lothian and Lanarkshire, but primarily in Glasgow.
(4) This struck a loud, clanging chord with a disenchanted British public – half of whom heard the speech – and 93% of those approved of its message, which when boiled down was just an appeal for greater individual effort to win the war.
(5) As one of the disenchanted Labour voters described by MacAskill, I have had many polemics put my way: the most persuasive have been George Galloway's "Just Say Naw" and a speech on the implications of Scottish independence for business by Rupert Soames, CEO of the Scottish firm Aggreko.
(6) He began as a conventional Hollywood liberal, but was soon disenchanted by the communists in the movie industry and what seemed to him the unduly leftist leadership of the American Federation of Labour.
(7) But those speculating this might be the start of a long-feared "strike" by disenchanted investors were somewhat let down: a regular government debt auction at the height of the political confusion was twice oversubscribed.
(8) That’s a very hard political sell, especially to a disenchanted public.
(9) Miszkowski, who sold his house to run for Labor in the 2007 federal election but became disenchanted with the party after Kevin Rudd forgot his name at a press conference, was also at the party, Guardian Australia has confirmed.
(10) Not content with picking up votes from disenchanted Conservatives, Farage advanced into Labour's terroritory on Friday by calling on large companies to sign up to a tough code of conduct to prevent them exploiting workers on zero-hours contracts.
(11) The recent "multi-party parliamentary election" – which was devoid of meaningful participation by opposition groups – and the formation of the new Syrian government by a member of the ruling Ba'ath party, have in particular disenchanted Iranian officials with Assad's strategy for a political solution.
(12) Thanks to the formation of the Coalition, Labour should be able to present itself as the only serious destination for voters disenchanted with the incumbent government.
(13) The disenchanted working class is the holy grail for vote-catchers, although no one actually seems to like its members.
(14) In 1950 he published a novel based on his Dartmouth visit, The Disenchanted, and later described the fiasco in his highly readable autobiography, Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince (1981).
(15) Zawahiri’s speech, delivered in Arabic, which is opaque to most Indians, is being seen as having far more to do with bolstering confidence in al-Qaida’s own ranks and fighting off the steep growth of the maverick Isis, than it is about recruiting new volunteers from Indian’s disenchanted Muslims.
(16) The front-page lead by Seumas Milne read: "A confidential strategic plan drawn up by Tony Blair's closest advisers warns that New Labour is not ready for government ... Disenchanted leftwing activists are likely to see it as confirmation that Blair has a near-presidential agenda."
(17) He concluded that many Greeks were disenchanted with their western allies and inclined to favour Russia.
(18) Narice Bernard, a 44-year-old businessman from East Lothian, who described himself as a disenchanted Labour supporter, was one of the campaign founders, and said he was frustrated by the calibre of the candidates , who were all associated with Labour’s defeat.
(19) More than half of Ukip's support in the European elections came from disenchanted Conservative voters, a poll commissioned by Lord Ashcroft has found .
(20) It is a prequel of sorts to the film, in that it fleshes out "why Calvero has nightmares, why he is so disenchanted with his career, with the public", she said.