(a.) Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive.
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.
Fiesta
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Last year Ford sold more than 25,000 white Fiestas.
(2) The Ford Fiesta was the bestseller in August, followed by the Ford Focus and Vauxhall Corsa, mirroring the top three best sellers in the year to date.
(3) Basic santeria beliefs and rituals, including the fiesta santera (a gathering at which some participants may become possessed), are briefly described, and four cases in which the patients' belief in possession played a role in their mental illness are presented.
(4) The top three best sellers in July, and in 2014 so far, were the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Ford Focus and the Vauxhall Corsa.
(5) This year's fiestas are peaceful, untroubled by tensions with Eta supporters or baton charges by twitchy police.
(6) Parliamentary byelections, which Hanna transformed into memorable TV fiestas in the Thatcher era, have become tepid and tedious since the bonhomous Belfast bruiser quit the BBC in 1987.
(7) It was also the setting for the first section of Hemingway’s first, and best, novel (published in the UK as Fiesta ).
(8) The VW Golf was the fourth best-selling car in the UK last month, and in the year to date, behind the Ford Fiesta, Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus.
(9) A note on the text Hemingway began writing the novel with the working title of Fiesta on his birthday, 21 July, in 1925.
(10) Industry observers said the programme would boost sales of smaller cars such as the Ford Fiesta and the Toyota Yaris, which are not normally discounted.
(11) Other significant risk factors (p.05) were drank water from container also used to dip hands (OR 4.2) and attended a fiesta (OR 3.6).
(12) While car sales have stalled or only inched forward across the sickly eurozone they have roared ahead in Britain, which is fast becoming an island jammed by drivers of sparkling white Ford Fiestas, bought on cheap credit.
(13) Each spring in Tudela there’s a festival devoted to all things green, red, yellow etc, the Jornadas de Exaltación y Fiestas de la Verdura (running until 1 May).
(14) Christina Garcia Rodero spent 15 years travelling around villages in Spain, photographing fiestas.
(15) The runs attract more than 2,000 people every morning of the nine-day fiesta.
(16) Shortly, there will also be a Ford Fiesta and a Smart.
(17) The bestseller in May was the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Volkswagen Golf and Vauxhall Corsa.
(18) Britain’s best-selling model remains by some margin the Ford Fiesta, followed by the Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Focus.
(19) In the case-control study, drinking unboiled water (odds ratio [OR] 3.1, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.3-7.3), drinking water from a household water storage container in which hands had been introduced into the water (4.2, 1.2-14.9), and going to a fiesta (social event) (3.6, 1.1-11.1) were associated with illness.
(20) First the Argentinian version, a jaunty instrumental number which at one point threatens to turn into the middle-eight of Fiesta by The Pogues.