(1) Gordon Clark, UK country manager of travel shopping consultancy Global Blue, predicts even higher spending in 2015: “Last year, spend by Arabic shoppers was up 43% for the period,” he says, “and as retailers and hotels improve their services to accommodate them, by bringing in Arabic-speaking staff and learning their culture’s customs, the UK is becoming an increasingly appealing shopping destination for them and we expect spend growth to remain strong.” Interestingly, even without explicit “Muslim-friendly” branding, it’s a doddle to shop for “modest” looks on the high street these days.
(2) And Hitchcock was a doddle compared to Capote, with his helium voice, the birdlike mincing, the urbane spikiness.
(3) The iPhone 3GS turns all that on its head: anything to do with the web, email, services such as Twitter and maps is a doddle; but things that are natural on a normal mobile phone, like sending a text or picture message, become fiddly.
(4) They have made the so-called Group of Death seem a doddle: and now Italy face a do-or-die showdown with Uruguay, who, as you may be aware, of good recent experience of such clashes.
(5) Doddle has 7,000 members who pay £5 a month for unlimited collections at its stores.
(6) ''As long as I get a clear view, the distance is a doddle.''
(7) If there were an abundance of fuel for mid-course corrections, then interplanetary navigation would be a doddle – indeed simpler than driving a car or ship, in that the destination is always in clear view.
(8) Moyles seemed astonished that a live news programme would have such documents, suggesting that hosting the show must be a "doddle" when you are told "the questions to be used in the interview and what the answers are going to be".
(9) Compared with the delicate gynaecological, urological and plastic surgery she uses for five-hour gender-reassignment operations, FGM-restorations are a doddle.
(10) The interim first-team coach's assistant, Eddie Newton, ended up departing the stadium with a smile and "this job's a doddle, isn't it?"
(11) Crushing sweet ginger biscuits into melted butter is a doddle.
(12) It suits him: people give him a lot of bananas, and clambering up to retrieve books from high shelves becomes a doddle.
(13) According to the TES, teachers posted in an online forum claimed iGCSE English papers were "an absolute doddle" and "way easier" than the domestic version.
(14) Delivering a lecture is a doddle compared to linking theory or research to real families, with everyone watching.
(15) People have looked to books like the Savoy Cocktail Book and 60% to 70% of the recipes use gin; vodka wasn’t available.” Gin’s heritage also helps explain demand, Stokes says: “A good story will always help you sell your product.” Plus, it can be made quickly: you can distill gin in just eight hours, a doddle compared to ageing a whisky for 10 to 12 years.
(16) Britons' enthusiasm for click-and-collect services has also seen Network Rail set up a joint venture with Travelex founder Lloyd Dorfman to invest £24m in 300 Doddle pick-up-points at stations.
(17) One of the sector’s more recent arrivals is parcel service Doddle , which has more than 30 outlets – it calls them “stores” – located mainly at urban train stations in places such as London, Brighton, Glasgow, Manchester, Norwich and Southampton.
(18) Perhaps it was felt that a decision on airport capacity would be a doddle for a man who has dealt with all that.
(19) They’re never going to be nicking this stuff without it having a place to go to already arranged.” As for getting it out of the country these days: “It’s a doddle.
(20) Handle this ordeal and running Britain is a doddle.
Doodle
Definition:
(n.) A trifler; a simple fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
(2) Google has celebrated the birth of the inventor of the petri dish, Julius Richard Petri, who was born on May 31, 1852 with a doodle on its home page.
(3) The same day, a departmental personal computer began playing "Yankee Doodle," a sign of "Doodle" virus infection.
(4) Just in the last month, I have downloaded apps for Eventbrite, Doodle, Yelp, Google Drive, Gmail, Ocado, Buzzfeed and Kickstarter, all companies with perfectly good websites.
(5) So you never died, you just kept regenerating.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest 65th anniversary of the birth of Freddie Mercury For Cruikshank, the key to the popularity of the Doodle is that “it shows the human behind the machine”.
(6) For a guy used to doodling funny pictures – it's possible that I'm underestimating the work that goes into building an animation empire – MacFarlane had his hands full with Ted .
(7) Google has nailed its colours to the mast over Russia's gay rights record in a new Google doodle , which is dedicated to the Olympic charter.
(8) We have one meeting going on above the table and another underneath.” There hasn’t yet been a Google Doodle marking Lassie’s birthday.
(9) A functioning Turing machine, a representation of a computing device, is the latest Google doodle , which celebrates the birth of Alan Turing on 23 June, 1912.
(10) "It was really hard to bite our tongues," says Taylor, who's furiously doodling a turtle with laser eyes and avoiding any eye contact.
(11) The doodle features an animation of five swimmers bobbing in and out of the water as a wave splashes over them.
(12) The doodle features six petri dishes which are swabbed by a hand.
(13) Google India has marked the 95th birthday of tabla legend Ustad Alla Rakha with a doodle dedicated to him.
(14) Today, however, the Google Doodle has evolved into a global showcase for beautiful illustration fused with creative technology.
(15) In the place of last year's depiction of the hydrological cycle and 2012's flowers , this year's doodle is half a dozen animated illustrations of species, from the photographer's favourite, the Japanese macaque ( Macaca fuscata) , to the Rufous hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ), a small bird found mostly on the west coast of the US.
(16) The collection appear to be chosen on the basis of being inspirational or beautiful rather than being endangered; Google's doodle is accompanied by a photo-sharing initiative on Google+ called #MyBeautifulEarth .
(17) Other doodles in Buckworth’s notebook seen by the Herald included a sketch of a chandelier; the phrase “Terrorismadeup”; and a cartoon of a child clutching his head with a thought bubble saying: “Tyrannosaurus Rex.
(18) The search engine said it tried to be sensitive in not putting sombre occasions into one of their trademark doodles but instead featuring them in some way on their homepage.
(19) Where Kid A's Everything in Its Right Place was a messy and inconsequential doodle, Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box is sharp, articulate and riven with paranoia, a subject lead singer and conspiracy theorist Thom Yorke, who recently implied he was the subject of MI5 surveillance, is well-qualified to discuss.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Timothy Spall, who ‘had an amateur notion of doodling’ had to study painting to prepare for his role in Mr Turner.