(a.) Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much of the week's music isn't actually sanctioned by the festival, with evenings hosted by blogs, brands, magazines, labels and, for some reason, Cirque du Soleil .
(2) The dog was discovered in a tent during a clean-up after thousands of festival-goers left the site.
(3) Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
(4) • Gone Girl picked for opening slot at New York film festival • We predict how Venice, Toronto and Telluride will split the 2014 world premieres
(5) In 1972, he launched a more ambitious plan by buying Hintlesham Hall, a decrepit grade-11 listed building in Suffolk, converting it into a home and three restaurants and taking over the Hintlesham festival held there.
(6) But then came the Cannes film festival, and The Artist .
(7) Here's what you need to know Read more Speaking to Guardian Australia ahead of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, Krugman, a renowned columnist at the New York Times , predicted the slowing Chinese economy would hurt Australia, but said the country should not get “too hysterical” about it.
(8) It's the slogan of an old electronica & dance music festival in Berlin known as The Love Parade.
(9) From next year, this multi-layered service will cover the Winter Olympics, the World Cup, the FA Cup and Commonwealth Games, alongside major festivals like the Proms, the Edinburgh Festival and Glastonbury.
(10) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
(11) Meanwhile he is preparing a new double piano concerto by Kevin Volans with the Labèque sisters for a concert at the Edinburgh festival next week, and he tells me with a glint in his eye about ideas for the next two seasons: concert performances of Don Giovanni this October, more Brahms symphonies, and more Berlioz – an ambitious plan to realise the gigantic drama of Roméo and Juliette on a chamber-orchestral scale, following up his rapturously received performances of L'Enfance du Christ in February.
(12) I remember putting on Gothic in 1986 as the finale of the London film festival.
(13) Speaking at a film festival in Dubai he said: "My compass has not stopped spinning," referring to the many policy switches made by the party he previously supported.
(14) Given the Panahi situation, it seems almost appropriate that this year's festival has been quite downbeat with films mining the darker seams of the human condition.
(15) 27 August, 8pm Will Self The nearest the book festival circuit has to a rock star has three slots.
(16) 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.
(17) In 2014, they organised the city’s first literature festival , hosting 25 events over two days.
(18) At Montpellier, the director, Jean-Paul Montanari, said he expected the whole festival industry to collapse but blamed the centre-right government's lack of interest in culture.
(19) But after reviewing it over the past few days with the Tribeca film festival team and others from the scientific community, we do not believe it contributes to or furthers the discussion I had hoped for.
(20) Between festivals, Hardee played cameo roles in TV comedies such as Blackadder and The Comic Strip, and ran his own comedy club, the Tunnel, which he had opened at the southern end of the Blackwall Tunnel in 1984; it acquired a fearsome reputation as a graveyard for aspiring standups.
Picnic
Definition:
(v.) Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).
(v. i.) To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(2) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(3) Perhaps the powers from on high will decide that picnics in Kensington Gardens can only comprise quinoa salads and raw broccoli.
(4) Pigs fed ractopamine had shorter carcasses, less fat depth and fat area, smaller weights of stomach and colon plus rectum, but higher dressing percentages, longissimus muscle areas, weights of trimmed Boston butts, picnics and loins, ham lean and predicted amounts of muscle than pigs not fed ractopamine (P less than .05).
(5) The beaches were empty until we happened across a popular picnic spot: a fresh water source made it the greenest place for miles around, and locals took their cows there to drink.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rolling Acres' picnic place.
(7) The section between Odeceixe and São Teotonio, which you can access at Odeceixe bridge, is really beautiful and diverse, running along the Seixe river, then through eucalyptus forest – take a picnic.
(8) We need a space like Juhu beach, that’s open to the public, where kids can go play or have a picnic.” For more than a decade, Mumbai agencies have been petitioning federal port authorities to open some part of the 730-hectare docklands for public use, as other port cities around the world have done.
(9) You'll find farm animals, a tearoom and a picnic spot.
(10) Virgin1 is expected to disappear and BSkyB may well take advantage of Ofcom's backing for Picnic, its proposed digital terrestrial subscription service, in the regulator's pay-TV ruling.
(11) By the time I arrived in Nice, the picnic on the beach had been called off, but I was soon absorbed into the extended family of this pair of single mothers and avid social networkers.
(12) The village has marked the spot, on a field on the edge of the village, with an EU flag and some picnic tables.
(13) The title of the piece, I’d love to Have You Over For Dinner ... but the House Isn’t Finished, would not seem so out of place today, nor would the temporary decor – a picnic table in the kitchen, a couch borrowed from a friend – chronicled within.
(14) But it hasn't got any wittier than this people-free image of a deconstructed picnic, with only the shooting stick and binoculars to tell you that we're off to the races.
(15) They are firmer and less flaky than Cornish pasties and don't break, making them the perfect picnic food.
(16) You keep putting the same people in the same job and expect a different outcome.” I met Conway at a Republican picnic in Ohio’s Mahoning County, known as ground zero for these crossover voters.
(17) You can make it complicated – but I've had some great times in a graveyard on a picnic blanket, and, indeed, up against bins around the back of a club – and I'd like something of that very British, make-do spirit to be represented somewhere in British sex fiction in 2014.
(18) Television and radio spots, with donor recognition pins, certificates, receptions, and picnics are utilized.
(19) But half a mile up the road the clergy were in the middle of a big gay picnic and had no problem with anyone using their building.
(20) Sky is understood to have considered launching an internet version of Picnic, an IPTV service.