(1) I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to, or confidence to, if it hadn’t been for Duckie.
(2) Bowie broke the silence in 2013 with The Next Day , a gnarly rock album spitting anger at warmongers, zombie celebrities and The Reaper with equal venom, as he prepares to “stumble to the graveyard and lay down by my parents”, adding archly, “just remember duckies, everybody gets got”.
(3) But somewhere between the non-coast guard approved rubber duckie floatation device and open manholes there is a happy middle ground.
(4) As if that wasn't enough to drain any possible pleasure out of the experience, the lifeguards, who could pass for navy Seal trainees, were so authoritarian that a five-year-old girl was ordered out of the toddler section because her rubber duckie ring was not a "coast guard approved floatation device".
(5) After almost closing its doors recently, one of the UK’s oldest gay venues has now been Grade II listed and is back up and running with a full technicolour range of attractions, including Duckie, a Saturday night cabaret show that has been running for more than 10 years.
(6) Duckie programmes the most innovative live artists.
(7) Best of all, it saw the mighty Duckie (Jon Cryer) miming along to Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness.
(8) I would not usually feel confident enough to try that sort of comedy character at other venues, but at Duckie difference is embraced.
(9) The preparations of brains from wabbler-lethal, ducky, and weaver mice showed normal activity.
(10) • hackneyshowroom.com Chosen by Scottee , asscociate artist at the Roundhouse and performance collective Duckie Royal Vauxhall Tavern Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Royal Vauxhall Tavern Unfortunately, queer spaces are disappearing in London, but one place that is still standing and remains the lynchpin of the scene is the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
(11) I was part of Duckie Homosexualist Summer School and I got to MC our showcase as a terrifying buffoon called the Matron – dressed head to toe in leather, a huge tumour bottom, a mop for a head and eight-inch high heels – shouting and swearing at the Duckie audience; an audience of drag kings, queens, students, regulars and people who had no idea what to expect.
(12) We rooted for Duckie in Pretty in Pink , hid behind the sofa during Jaws, were baffled by Blue Velvet, and learned about love wandering the streets of Vienna with Jesse and Céline in Before Sunrise .
Dusky
Definition:
(a.) Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
(a.) Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
(a.) Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
(a.) Intellectually clouded.
Example Sentences:
(1) A model of the reproductive ecology of female dusky salamanders was used to investigate the allocation scheme that a female might use to maximize her reproductive success.
(2) Edematous right hand with dusky erythematous skin over the dorsum and swelling of the palm with limitation of range of motion were noted on admission.
(3) The findings are compared to other causes of dusky-hued skin in the neonate.
(4) Factors leading to injury included rapid onset of colder temperatures, sudden reuse of snowblowers after storage for the summer, a heavy mid-week storm that created a sense of urgency to clear snow in dusky light conditions after a day at work, frustration as exit chutes became repeatedly clogged with heavy wet snow and limited operator education.
(5) In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky.
(6) Two different forms of Chinese pangolins can be recognized according to the color of their scales, i.e., brown and dusky.
(7) The dusky red skin lesion gradually spread to the right side of her trunk and drained small amount of purulent or serosanguineous fluid.
(8) Our results suggest that there is considerable divergence in Chinese pangolins, and brown and dusky Chinese pangolins may be quite different forms or, at least, belong to different maternal groups.
(9) The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi Johnson, Schmid, Hyde, Steigerwalt & Brenner, was isolated from the blood of a dusky-footed wood rat, Neotoma fuscipes Baird, in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California.
(10) There was typical pheochromocytoma in areas of dusky red tissue.
(11) Open Mon-Fri 11.30am-1am, Sat 11.30am-2pm, Sun 12.30pm-midnight Sunflower Facebook Twitter Pinterest A jam session at Sunflower Inside this dusky nook of a bar - crowned the best in the city last year, but under threat from developers - the beer choice is bang up to date.
(12) These results are not specific to dusky salamanders, but can be extended to other organisms with similar reproductive characteristics.
(13) The plume of scarlet hair she sported in the role that defined her, as the FBI agent Dana Scully in The X-Files , which ran for nine series between 1993 and 2002 and spawned two movies, is gone, replaced by dusky blond locks.
(14) Politicians who stuff their brains with alcohol, nicotine and amphetamines view ecstasy, cannabis and cocaine as dangerous exotics, like the black death or yellow peril, imported from dusky parts to corrupt the young.
(15) Gross anatomical analysis of the photoactivated brain revealed hemorrhagic dusky discoloration limited to the area of the tissue illuminated.
(16) Deficiency mapping indicates that Andante is located in the 1OE1-2 to 1OF1 region of the X chromosome, close to the miniature-dusky locus.
(17) the "normal" articular cartilage, the fissured and wrinkled articular cartilage, and the yellow or dusky red, markedly thickened, and roughened articular cartilage.
(18) Yersinia pestis antibodies occurred in serum samples from 25 (36%) of 69 black bears (Ursus americanus), one (50%) of two raccoons (Procyon lotor), five (3%) of 170 dusky-footed woodrats (Neotoma fuscipes), and one (less than 1%) of 118 deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus).
(19) Divergence between brown and dusky forms began 0.6 Myr ago, provided the mean rate of sequence divergence is 0.02 per Myr in mtDNA.
(20) We analyzed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) purified from the livers of seven dusky and six brown Chinese pangolins from the same locality, using cleavage patterns from 19 restriction enzymes.