(1) As Harvey said with such flair, "nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten path".
(2) The clue is in the title: it takes a lot of work and rehearsal for a comedian to appear spontaneous, and this is a daft, enjoyable and impressively polished show from a comic with a natural flair for the absurd.
(3) It took Harry Guy Bartholomew, first editorial director and then chairman after Rothermere unloaded his shares, to run the business on despotic lines and, with a mixture of flair and vindictive thuggery, create one of the great popular newspapers.
(4) The UN has criticised these policies , which display none of the ingenuity or flair of the street papers or Housing First advocates, whose methods, while not perfect, have at least been shown to reduce urban homelessness.
(5) From that starting point, he immediately applied – with his colleagues – his flair, vision and enormous energy to create a €1.5bn worldwide communications group.
(6) Oscar Tabárez's side may not play with the same flair and commitment to attack, but Luis Suárez demonstrated here why he is so revered and the draw has been as inviting for La Celeste as they could possibly have dared hope.
(7) They attacked with great flair during the first half, sensing their opponents were there for the taking, and when they were put under sustained pressure we saw the old doggedness after the break, defending with great determination while still looking dangerous on the counterattack.
(8) For a politician whose stock-in-trade had always been a flair for exhibitionism and showmanship, it was a particularly cruel form of punishment.
(9) Wen has scored at least one big victory in his time as premier: he is widely considered instrumental in sacking the Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai – a charismatic leader with a flair for Mao-era grandiosity – triggering the party's most dramatic political upheaval in decades.
(10) With comic timing and a flair for the unusual, Rosling's style has undoubtedly helped make data cool.
(11) His light touch with pastry and flair for eclairs – always baked with a signature pencil perched behind his ear – have won over the hearts and tastebuds of the Great British Bake Off judges.
(12) Their showing was a triumph for the coach, Joachim Löw, who has pieced together many players of modest experience and swiftly achieved success without sacrificing flair.
(13) He had no hacking ability, but instead put his flair for writing and rhetoric to use.
(14) It is too soon to deliver a verdict on the value for money achieved in the spree but flair is insufficient.
(15) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
(16) And as her notorious campaign ad proved, she already has the Trumpian flair.
(17) Stoke did not just deal with them quite easily, they produced all the flair, vision and style.
(18) In 42 lesions, conspicuity was better with FLAIR sequences, equal in five and worse in one cystic lesion.
(19) Teams such as Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile and Algeria blew fresh air through the stale halls of international football's establishment with their teamwork and counter attacking flair.
(20) McGurk would not reveal how he would vote on Sunday, but said: "David is liked because he's got a lot of charisma, he's down to earth, he gives the place a sort of international flair – and apparently because we Scots have this reputation for being careful with our money, which I hadn't realised we had until I came to Germany."
Flour
Definition:
(n.) The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard.
(v. t.) To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with flour.
Example Sentences:
(1) The physical effects of chlorination as demonstrated by experiments with batters and cakes and by physicochemical observations of flour and its fractions are also considered.
(2) Basic foodstuffs, such as flour, sugar and edible oils, are heavily subsidised.
(3) Soybean proteins are widely used in human foods in a variety of forms, including infant formulas, flour, protein concentrates, protein isolates, soy sauces, textured soy fibers, and tofu.
(4) Nevertheless, the food conversion index of the chicks consuming the diet prepared with fish silage proved to be better that the conversion index of the diet prepared with fish and soy flours.
(5) Pancreatic growth was studied after partial resection of the normal-sized pancreas in rats fed heated soya flour (HSF) or the enlarged gland in rats fed raw soya flour (RSF).
(6) Similarly, changes were observed in the distribution of the apparent molecular weights of gliadins from heated flours by using gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE).
(7) In another experiment the effect of cooking-extrusion on lupine flour (L. albus) was investigated and the chemical composition, protein efficiency ratio, methionine supplementation and digestibility of the protein were measured.
(8) Specific anti-wheat, rye and barley flour IgE antibodies were found by RAST.
(9) Scoop some of the flour mixture over the top of each piece and press down with the back of your hand, making sure it's completely coated.
(10) Urinary and fecal estrogen excretion were studied in male rats fed a non-fiber wheat starch diet (dietary fiber less than 1%; NF group; n = 4), a low-fiber wheat flour diet (dietary fiber 2%; LF group; n = 4) or a high-fiber wheat bran diet (dietary fiber 11.6%; HF group; n = 3).
(11) It is concluded that vitamin-D deficiency in Asian immigrants could be substantially reduced by fortification of chupatty flour with vitamin D.
(12) It is possible that the reduction in this enzyme may be of some importance in determining the susceptibility of the pancreas to carcinogenesis observed with long term soy flour feeding.
(13) Under an abandoned flour mill and in a "howling, freezing" power station, he had "eaten sandwiches and coffee coated thick with dust".
(14) On the other hand, introduction of the mixed protein into a diet based on flour plus tuna sterilized at 115 degrees C for 90 minutes, was not capable of maintaining the optimum patterns for weight evolution.
(15) Of 1353 cereal samples, 11.7% contained the mycotoxin; of 1372 samples of feed, 1.5%; of 368 bread samples, 17.2%; of 215 flour samples, 22.3%; of 894 porcine serum samples, 37.4%; and of 1065 human serum samples, 7.2%.
(16) The above results indicate that proteases S1, S2, S3 and S4 from defatted soybean flour can be classified as acid proteases.
(17) Absurdly, the shops lack local staples – sugar, milk, flour – but are well stocked with subsidised imports such as single-malt whisky and Italian panettone.
(18) Rheological properties of flour and quality parameters of bread are changed to a greater or lesser extent, among other, by addition of free amino acids.
(19) When flours are heated below 80 degrees C the chromatograms showed no significant change.
(20) 3 children required hospitalization for intravenous therapy, but the rest responded well to the rice flour based ORS.