(1) Foggy feast Well done Carl Fogarty, the most successful world superbike racing champion ever, now known to a new generation as the winner of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here .
(2) If eating is solely about nourishment then the feast in which the vast majority of us will participate on 25 December is equally an outrage.
(3) Perhaps the number of complaints an ombudsman receives is a function of the number of ambulance-chasing claims companies that are able to feast on a 25% – 40% cut of the winnings.
(4) A spectacular fall from grace on the pitch – from first to seventh, playing dour football that is anathema to fans who feasted on success throughout the Ferguson era – will also lead to renewed scrutiny of the club's controversial US owners, the Glazer family , away from it.
(5) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
(6) Later that day, over dinner in a private Catalan castle, I am sitting opposite Hollywood's Heather Graham and Jason Silva, her film-producer boyfriend, who have also flown in for the feast, watching as the star of Boogie Nights and The Hangover delicately transfers her food from her plate to her partner's.
(7) After saying his prayer, Sadaullah, was entering the room where the other guests had already taken their place for the evening feast when the missile hit.
(8) Another certifier, Mohamed El-Mouelhy, said the significance of the feast day was akin to that of Christmas for Christians.
(9) The Great Beauty is intentionally overwhelming; its feast of riches borderline nauseating.
(10) His offices released statements about meetings with cabinet ministers to discuss issues such as the availability of basic food items during Ramadan when Muslims feast on food after a day of dawn-to-dusk fasting.
(11) A six-piece band comprising of Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Richard Reed Parry, as well as a moveable feast of other players, over the past nine years and two more albums – Neon Bible (2006) and The Suburbs (2010) – they have built a reputation for both the intrigue and intelligence of their songwriting, as well as for live shows that can seem ecstatic, desperate and electric all at once.
(12) The €31.5bn aid tranche has become "a bit of a moveable feast", Helena says.
(13) Graham Linehan , when we meet as the others grab sandwiches, is flustered from traffic but more so, I suspect, from, at the moment, being the ghost at the feast.
(14) A time when we remember a feast, the first Thanksgiving, on Plymouth plantation in the autumn of 1621.
(15) Let other 2014 commemorations of war dwell on reconciliation or shrink from triumphalism: next summer, visitors to Bannockburn's Live will enjoy a feast of martial entertainments, including, says Visit Scotland , "a spectacular re-enactment of this iconic battle close to the original site".
(16) "The text that is currently on the table contains 200 pages with a feast of alternatives and a forest of square brackets," he said.
(17) The wood-clad dining room serves four-course feasts and a decent children's menu (with free food for under-fours).
(18) During the last feast, Mustafa generously took the time to prepare over 30 plates of pastries for his fellow detainees.
(19) Three-course gourmet vegetarian feasts include local organic wines.
(20) It was somehow fitting that the day the US and Cuba announced the end of decades of hostilities was also the feast of San Lazaro, or St Lazarus – the biblical figure who rose from the dead.
Sumptuous
Definition:
(a.) Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beyond the sumptuous lifestyle spreads in glossies or the gift-strewn shop windows at Harrods and Selfridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop website , shows like Downton Abbey keep us in thrall to the idea of moolah, mansions and autocratic power.
(2) Sicilian blood oranges (moro, tarocco), with their sumptuous purple juice, are the cream of the crop, and in my experience, rarely waxed with pesticides, because they are generally sold out within a couple of months.
(3) The leader of the world’s largest autocracy will enjoy a 103-gun royal salute and a sumptuous, white-tie state banquet attended by three generations of the royal family; he will address the houses of parliament and at night will sleep in the palace’s Belgian Suite, in the very same bed that Duke and Duchess of Cambridge used on their wedding night .
(4) He may feel on the margins but this was a reminder that the Spaniard remains a player of sumptuous talent, vision and finesse.
(5) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
(6) Then there was the shot curled sumptuously on to the angle of post and bar as half-time approached that left Mourinho slumped over the wall in his dug-out, aghast that one of his players could be so bereft of fortune.
(7) It was a lovely London moment, which reminded me of those sumptuous shots in Hollywood films, of Fifth Avenue in the snow, or of a night-time LA lit up by headlights like a circuit board.
(8) Cardinale made them at the same time, flitting from Fellini's modernist, black-and-white vision of Rome to Visconti's sumptuous recreation of 19th-century Sicily.
(9) We gather at the venerable United Artists Theatre, a sumptuous 1927 movie palace, all faux-Byzantine motifs and three tiers of balconies, bearing our $200 tickets and plenty of questions.
(10) On Thursday, Fourth Estate publishes The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis, a sumptuous 1,200-page volume that includes hundreds of hitherto unpublished letters.
(11) In search of this sumptuousness, Steingarten went to L'Arpège, a Paris restaurant with three Michelin stars whose chef, Alain Passard, had recently introduced a vegetarian menu.
(12) Director David Lean filmed it on sumptuous 70mm film instead of the usual 35mm, which allowed for incredible sharpness.
(13) Luiz Gustavo curled just wide and Arjen Robben motored clean through, from Thomas Müller's sumptuous back-heel, to draw a smart save at point-blank range from Fabianski.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest As the postpunk era gave way to the glossy, overproduced 80s, suddenly Bush's sumptuous soundscapes made more sense than they had during the era of 2 Tone and Joy Division.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The food, served in the garden on big communal tables, is great too: pulses, veggie Sri Lankan curries with jasmine rice, tuna steak, salads with yoghurt dressing, that was both healthy and sumptuous.
(16) We're sitting in an an office at her publisher Bloomsbury's sumptuous new headquarters.
(17) The stadium was rocking by now and when Cheik Tioté brought the scores level, with a sumptuous volley after a Barton free-kick was only half-cleared, it duly exploded.
(18) They cut Chelsea apart with sumptuous style but then Salvio eschewed a clear shooting opportunity to try to play it to a team-mate who was surrounded by defenders.
(19) Kraft boss Irene Rosenfeld had phoned Cadbury's chairman Roger Carr on Sunday to set up the secret 11am meeting, and the two shook hands on the £12bn deal in the sumptuous five-star surroundings.
(20) However, his sumptuous backheel helped draw Juve level CM ANDREA PIRLO 6 It started off as a demur game for the midfielder but in the second half he showed the talents that will be missed come next season LM PAUL POGBA 6 Plenty of talk about his greatness of late but he is not long back from injury and only sparkled briefly in the first half.