(1) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
(2) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(3) At least if it'd been an absolute fuck-fest that would've been exciting.
(4) Put it this way: he is so beloved that there is an annual event in Toronto called Ford Fest where his supporters (known as "Ford Nation") gather to sing songs about him , eat barbecue and maybe even meet him.
(5) At the Voodoo Fest in New Orleans in October 2012, 21-year-old Clayton Otwell was offered a single drop of 25I-NBOMe up his nose as a gift from a grateful stranger whose phone he had found.
(6) (2) A minor addendum to last week's fact-fest : the last time Dundee and Dundee United both played at home on the same day was as recently as Boxing Day 2012, just weeks ago.
(7) Some MPs say it is impossible for Johnson to return before the election as the campaign would turn into a giant "Boris fest".
(8) David Penney notes: "If the Ivory Coast really find themselves on the wrong side of a kick-fest, maybe their supporters could take a leaf out of the French rugby fans and release their own mascot onto the field; 4 tons of rampaging elephant."
(9) Stimulation of secretion in guinea pig exocrine cells is associated with an enhanced synthesis in these cells of 1-O-alkyl-2-sn-acetyl-glycero-3-phosphocholines (PAF) from 1-O-alkyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (lyso-PAF) (Söling, H-D., and Fest, W. (1986) J. Biol.
(10) All the same, who would bet against another goal-fest?
(11) I think this may be the first two-sided goal-fest of the tournament.
(12) Potentially this has the makings of a goal fest, no?
(13) The rest appeared content to watch the match on the giant screens at the Fifa Fan Fest, to simply wear their colours in a Brazilian bar, or to head further north and soak up the festival spirit in Rio.
(14) Trump bragged on MSNBC about the “more than 2,500 people” who attended the town hall event , which he said was “an evening of love, it was a love fest, and we all had a great time”.
(15) It’s not all one big eco-hippy love-fest, though – it’s simple financial common sense.
(16) • Film Fest Australia runs 14 - 23 September • Taylor also features in Lawless, released in the UK on 7 September Footnotes [1] Adopted hometown.
(17) The class of '92 is a fascinating narrative strand and kind of sums up why football is so riveting: it is an absolute yarn-fest...
(18) The Argentines looked set for a goal-fest but despite their dominance in possession could not add to their tally in what was Lionel Messi’s 100th appearance for his country.
(19) The EBU regularly reminds anyone listening that, particularly at such times of economic strain in Europe , it's this music-fest, rather than worthy pan-European political gestures from Brussels or elsewhere, that nudge us toward loving this continent.
(20) Across the Avenida Atlantica other supporters were still stopping outside Fifa’s Fan Fest to have their photographs taken in front of the Adidas billboard from which Suárez’s image stared out, teeth bared almost prophetically, alongside the company’s slogan of the moment, Tudo ou nada .
Fete
Definition:
(n.) A feat.
(n. pl.) Feet.
(n.) A festival.
(v. t.) To feast; to honor with a festival.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
(2) Gen Pinochet was also under indictment in three cases stemming from the 3,000 people killed and thousands tortured during his regime, when he was feted by Washington as a bulwark against communism.
(3) Bath-shaped recession If viewed huffily by his own peers, Sorrell is feted elsewhere, with invitations to the Obama inauguration and to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
(4) There, he has been feted by the king for making investments abroad to keep the kingdom fed.
(5) Biggs wasn't a cuddly heart of gold cockney character to be feted .
(6) Carney arrived at Threadneedle Street by tube shortly before 7am, ahead of most camera crews and photographers hoping to catch a glimpse of the governor feted as the rock star of central banking.
(7) But it may not have been coincidence that two months later, Farage was being feted by Murdoch’s the Times, which dubbed the controversial leader “Man of the Moment” .
(8) Bond doesn't expect WI sales at local fetes and markets to be affected as the biscuits and preserves "have been made in members' kitchens in limited quantities, as opposed to the WI Foods products that are produced by small-scale family manufacturers in larger quantities for the general public".
(9) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
(10) And as for his much-feted reticence and unwillingness to be made into a 'personality' himself well, you'd have to say that was the icing on the cake.
(11) While here they were being feted, going to the match, invited to the House of Commons to meet the all-party football group, as well as a return to the scene of their triumph, Middlesbrough.
(12) In 1896, Bridget Driscoll was attending a summer fete in Crystal Palace, London, when a car travelling at a “tremendous pace” – somewhere under its top speed of eight miles per hour – struck and killed her.
(13) They are its flower arrangers and cleaners, its priests’ housekeepers and its soup kitchen operators, its fete organisers and its catechists .
(14) Two years ago Leahy had appeared to retire on a high when he was feted by outgoing chairman David Reid as "undoubtedly one of the leading businessmen of his generation … [who] has put in place a strategy which can secure the progress of Tesco for years go come."
(15) But by feting two cynical politicians who have sought to harness religious feelings for their own agendas, as Abbas is doing now with the furore over the Jerusalem mosques and Peres did nearly 40 years ago – when, as defence minister, he authorised the first settlements in the West Bank, in the hope the settlers would support him against his rival Yitzhak Rabin – the pope helped perpetuate the myth.
(16) Harris, for example, has been feted by Spotify, but also played Apple’s iTunes Festival in London this month.
(17) Sisi was feted when he attended the World Economic Forum in Davos last month.
(18) The first African American to run the Department of Justice was feted by the president as the “people’s lawyer”: a champion of voter rights, same-sex marriage, sentencing reform and civil liberties.
(19) Though he would go on to become feted by the fashion establishment, he never lost the anarchic approach of his youth.
(20) Oh, and by the way: While the Tories were celebrating the defeat of Ed Balls, I wonder how many of them reflected that the much-feted powers of the Bank of England to aim at sufficient growth to achieve the inflation target were the work of Brown and Balls, as was the curbing of Tony Blair’s wish to take the UK into the euro.