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Fey


Definition:

  • (a.) Fated; doomed.
  • (n.) Faith.
  • (v. t.) To cleanse; to clean out.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Tom Hiddleston will be popping up to get pally with the puppets.
  • (2) The US comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will replace Ricky Gervais as next year's Golden Globe hosts – bringing perhaps a gentler touch to proceedings on the occasion of the awards' 70th anniversary.
  • (3) And the comedy Sisters, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, also did reasonably well as R-rated adult-skewed counter-programming, opening with $13.4m in third.
  • (4) The snowman's quest is accompanied by a fey, irritating cover version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's The Power of Love , in which Holly Johnson is replaced by a breathy chanteuse whimpering at the piano like a dog that needs taking for a walk.
  • (5) But Fey and Poehler would never condone this kind of unseemly contest between them, with people (ie, me) deciding which one they prefer, so I'll stop this nonsense now.
  • (6) An ode to better days: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 12.30am BST Amy Poehler confirms that she and Tina Fey will discuss whether they want to host the Golden Globes tonight.
  • (7) Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have been brilliant hosts for the Golden Globes – and that event itself has started in recent years itself to look sharper, smarter, more intimate: a cool revue-type show, compared to the deadly serious Oscars in a cavernous theatre.
  • (8) The two women have worked together pretty much throughout their careers, from Saturday Night Live (highlights include Poehler playing Hillary Clinton to Fey's Sarah Palin) to their forays into film, Baby Mama and, of course, Mean Girls .
  • (9) Tina Fey’s unflattering impersonations on Saturday Night Live were an instant hit.
  • (10) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
  • (11) Here’s one of the latest videos of Fey and Poehler talking about what we can expect tonight.
  • (12) A slow start from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, but then it picks up quickly.
  • (13) Kenneth introduced them both to Swinging London and he enjoyed the frisson of arriving at debauched parties with two 21-year-old men, one of them fey and elegant, and the other raffish and working-class."
  • (14) Actress Tina Fey arrives with Audi at the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held in Los Angeles.
  • (15) Five years ago, with Mean Girls, Tina Fey looked as though she might be shaping up to fill that role, and of course last year she scored a double-whammy with Sarah Palin and 30 Rock.
  • (16) The noncompetitive Sandwich-ELISA (polystyrene balls) with labelled antibody for staphylococcal enterotoxins (SE) A, B, C, and D according to Fey et al.
  • (17) Alignment of the CNBr-cleavage fragments was made easier by comparison with the cDNA sequence of mouse pro-C3 [Wetsel, Lundwall, Davidson, Gibson, Tack & Fey (1984) J. Biol.
  • (18) These are things that might make me as happy as news that the wonderful Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are to take over from the increasingly dreary Ricky Gervais as hosts of the Golden Globes – but not by much.
  • (19) The show broke its rating records in 2008 when vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared alongside comedian and writer Tina Fey, who played her in a skit.
  • (20) Yes, Fey did crack a joke about Fallon petting Trump’s hair; it was the best line of the skit.

Vampire


Definition:

  • (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
  • (n.) Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.
  • (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
  • (n.) Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially V. spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinically the word vampirism should be used to name all sexual or agressive acts, whether blood-sucking happens or not, committed on a dead or dying person.
  • (2) Leather, who celebrated his seventh consecutive week at the top of the Amazon chart with his novella The Basement , about a serial killer in New York, also occupies fourth place with Hard Landing , another thriller, and 11th place with Once Bitten , a vampire novel.
  • (3) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
  • (4) Like it or not, he went on to direct another vampire movie, Scars of Dracula (1970), with Christopher Lee in the title role and bad special effects such as rubber bats on strings.
  • (5) Her most memorable film role to date has been dancing with a python in a state of undress in the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn.
  • (6) He developed a parallel career as a rock video director after mentioning in a meeting with record label and film company Warp that he loved the Arctic Monkeys, and ended up directing a string of videos for them (given the band's legendary reticence, the mind boggles at what the initial meeting was like) as well as Vampire Weekend , Kasabian and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .
  • (7) It takes place over roughly two days and two nights, as Ben and his new friends – or what's left of them – try to end the rapidly spreading vampire menace and take Salem's Lot back.For better or worse, the book ends pretty much where it began: with the tall man and the boy in Mexico, trying to work out their next move.
  • (8) Vampire bat salivary plasminogen activator (BatPA), human tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) or streptokinase (SK) were incubated in human citrated plasma containing a plasma clot that was radiolabelled with iodine-125 fibrin(ogen).
  • (9) For us, it’s a human question,” he said, insisting that Qataris were not “vicious people who are like vampires.
  • (10) He found Madonna's interest in him almost vampiric.
  • (11) We didn’t tell him how central his role was, we didn’t want to make him nervous.” It’s notable that after gallivanting around the globe for centuries, Clement and Waititi’s vampires have settled in Wellington, New Zealand.
  • (12) Blackout will be organising grassroots events, nationwide, for people to come out and show their solidarity in the fight for equal human rights.” Backers include Fruitvale Station actor Michael B Jordan, Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham, hiphop mogul Russell Simmons and erstwhile Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello.
  • (13) The idea of the vampire as a silver-tongued aristocrat, like Count Dracula, is mirrored in Irving's thespian mannerisms, and his fascination with theatrical villains.
  • (14) But vampires and zombies are old news, according to Quirk.
  • (15) A comparison to the development and function of night-mares is drawn.--The vampire motif in Europe originally developed at the end of the Middle Ages.
  • (16) Beyond the strangers in internet chatrooms, where I discussed the subtextual relationship between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and evil slayer Faith, no one said I was allowed to feel like this.
  • (17) Some were dismissive: "Patricia Hewitt and Geoff Hoon have as much impact as a vampire with no teeth," wrote Welshracer.
  • (18) Lessons learned ... Feminism is dead Over the 476 minutes of vampires, wolves and long, lingering looks, Bella's life (much like life after 30) is a depressing trudge towards marriage and babies.
  • (19) "I wanted to make Vampire's Kiss, because I was still trying to live my punk rock dreams.
  • (20) The one place Vampire Weekend really let loose, it seems, is in the studio.

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