(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 .
Lucky
Definition:
(superl.) Favored by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune; -- said of persons; as, a lucky adventurer.
(superl.) Producing, or resulting in, good by chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate; as, a lucky mistake; a lucky cast; a lucky hour.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The lucky ones are studying, the others are like me," he said.
(2) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
(3) Some people are lucky enough to have someone to look after them,” Leigh broods.
(4) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(5) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
(6) After trading mistakes, Wawrinka got lucky at 30-30, mishitting a service return and fooling Djokovic.
(7) Do get yourself elected as a governor If you’re lucky, your school hasn’t yet been swallowed up by a private academy chain, and so its governing body still has ultimate power, and the headteacher is accountable to it.
(8) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
(9) Next they are lucky if they can obtain an appointment before the boil bursts.
(10) Training for foster carers often depends on the standards of the local authority or fostering agency in question, and we are lucky to have strong support from our social worker and agency.
(11) Start your exploring at Bearreraig Bay, where, if you are lucky, you may find belemnites, ammonites and bivalves.
(12) ), and yes I have benefited from major label marketing budgets, so I am definitely one of the lucky ones.
(13) Anita Anand, the BBC presenter, tweeted during Cameron's visit: "My grandfather was one of the lucky few who survived."
(14) Forget about the infants' milk, only lucky children can get it.
(15) If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.
(16) Those who bought "luxury' villas for €1m in the good times would be lucky to get a third for them now – if, that is, they could ever find a buyer happy to tolerate living on an unfinished complex.
(17) I suppose I was lucky compared to many kids in today’s care system.
(18) Then again, any show attracting reviews as bad as Celtic have had in the last week would be lucky to survive any longer at the Festival and this performance has left them on the fringes of European football.
(19) We all know someone who has had a baby, broken an arm or has been seriously ill. Do we consider enough how lucky we are to see our GP for free?
(20) Although Migaloo’s rough itinerary can be figured out, it is still a lucky whale watcher who spots him, Oskar Peterson, from the White Whale Research Centre , told Guardian Australia.