(1) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(2) I’m so happy to be joining Arsenal, a club which has a great manager, a fantastic squad of players, huge support around the world and a great stadium in London,” said Sánchez.
(3) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
(4) He is big, strong, athletic, very quick and has got a fantastic leap on him," said McClaren.
(5) Thank you to Manchester United, not just the directors, coaching staff, medical staff, the players, the fans, all of you – you have been the most fantastic experience of my life, so thank you.
(6) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(7) I went to see the Who recently, which was fantastic, but the band I truly love has to be the one I first got into, Guns N' Roses.
(8) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
(9) "[The consortium award] is fantastic news for them and is a testament to the leadership of their individual organisations," he said.
(10) I think we are still the underdogs because they have high quality but we will try to do our best – if we lose it’s because Sevilla made a fantastic performance.” As well as missing a penalty Sevilla also hit the woodwork on two occasions, with the Leicester goal living a charmed life at times.
(11) While the last 20 minutes were as low key as World Cup games get, Klose was responsible for a fantastic block to deny Alejandro Bedoya an equaliser in stoppage time.
(12) "There are idle MPs with no outside interests and there are fantastic public servants that do have them."
(13) He hailed the decision to award the Games to London, saying: "This is just the most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of in British sport."
(14) If you were to say within the aviation industry we can reduce our carbon footprint by 25%, people would be saying well that’s fantastic, that is big news.
(15) It is the most fantastic exercise: high intensity, all the limbs are moving simultaneously, and you have to try to keep the brain fully focused.
(16) Undoubtedly some of them see the Corbyn surge as a fantastic recruitment opportunity, or the next stage in fomenting the kind of revolution that has never taken place in a single western country.
(17) My experience, my maturity, was always present in the control of the emotions and the situation and during the season we had some crucial moments that we coped with in a fantastic way.
(18) The Libyan Red Crescent (LRC) is really one of the few actors left on the ground, along with a handful of national NGOs.” “The LRC volunteers are doing a fantastic job despite the difficult and challenging environment but at some point they will need support,” he said, adding that assessments were ongoing and a potential deployment by federation members from Tunisia was under consideration.
(19) She is fantastically clever and when she's on about ideas she is astonishing.
(20) It was intended, according to its creator, as a “warning to America”, a horrifying and fantastical vision of the future in which the US – ludicrously – had elected as its president Donald Trump .
Grotesque
Definition:
(n.) A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.
(n.) Artificial grotto-work.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was some fertile ground in which that grotesque lie could be sown.
(2) There are allegations of very, very serious dereliction of duty and of wrongdoing by people in the police at the time who were investigating – it is alleged – some of the most grotesque crimes imaginable.” According to Newsnight, the officers involved said they did not know the senior figure who threatened them.
(3) That's completely and utterly grotesque and, no matter how proud we all are in the labour movement that the minimum wage exists, not a single day goes by that we shouldn't be disgusted with ourselves for that.
(4) They look like grotesque open-air swimming pools - and they contain some of the UK's biggest problems regarding nuclear waste.
(5) I still believe that the diversion of ever wider tracts of arable land from feeding people to feeding livestock is iniquitous and grotesque.
(6) The voices of the other characters – Thomas's mother as well as a cast of recognisable grotesques: a taxi driver, a bully, the local drunk – add to the atmosphere of dissolving reality and, at times, to the sense that they may exist only in Magill's head.
(7) The grotesque merry-go-round of more people selling fewer overpriced homes is in full swing.
(8) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
(9) A combination of dysfunctional family and invasive fame ate away at the essentially private singer, whose initially minor eccentricities escalated into grotesque changes to his appearance and lifestyle.
(10) The church cannot face in two directions like a grotesque two-headed monster: one face for public, the other for private.
(11) O'Brien has since become notorious among equal rights campaigners for his vigorous attacks on gay marriage and gay adoptions , calling homosexuality a "grotesque subversion" and "harmful to the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of those involved".
(12) He will still be lauded by those who enjoy this grotesque, sadistic sport, whatever his views on gay people or women.
(13) The model is then subjected to the criticism that it is grotesque to ignore questions relating to the value of, for example, a productive mother over against an aged recluse, and to treat them as having equal rights to access.
(14) Outside, all the talk was of the corruption allegations that had led to a fresh wave of hand-wringing over the greed and grotesque sums in the game.
(15) His once-visionary keywords have grotesque afterlives: Big Brother is a TV franchise to make celebrities of nobodies and Room 101 a light-entertainment show on BBC2 currently hosted by Frank Skinner for celebrities to witter about stuff that gets their goat.
(16) To put it plainly, PFI charges include too high a rate of interest and grotesquely high returns on equity.
(17) But he made grotesque monetary demands for the nonsense of Superman.
(18) His conclusion, outlined in The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard , is that the grotesque murder was not a hate crime, but could instead be blamed on crystal meth, a drug that was flooding Denver and the surrounding area at the time of Matthew’s death.
(19) It's that to portray Israel as some kind of victim with every right to "defend itself" from attack from "outside its borders" is a grotesque inversion of reality.
(20) It also contains a grotesquely racist portrayal of an Asian neighbour by Mickey Rooney.