(n.) One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith.
Example Sentences:
(1) There will be a show by the Cambridge Footlights, and it won’t be very good.
(2) The two became writing partners, and Oliver served as vice-president of the Cambridge Footlights during Ayoade's presidency.
(3) What's usually more interesting are the shows performed by ex-Footlighters now taking their steps into the adult world and coming up with jokes that aren't just funny to students.
(4) But Morgan responded by mocking his "theatricals typical of someone who took part in the Cambridge Footlights as he did".
(5) Theatre Royal, Fri; touring to 19 Dec Sheeps: Wembley Previews, London Ex-Footlights three-piece Sheeps manage to dodge the pitfalls that most young sketch groups fall into.
(6) Ayoade grew up in Ipswich, studied law at Cambridge and joined Footlights, where he partnered first with The Daily Show 's John Oliver and then with Matthew Holness.
(7) You know, saying to the school, you can't teach drama, it's not a subject…" But Bird won out, got his A-level, and later, studying English literature at Cambridge, joined the Footlights comedy troupe.
(8) A detour into the bank of Blair Bishop has a common touch seldom associated with ex-Footlights comics: it's a brand of trad standup that pleases a mass audience, but it can alienate comedy snobs.
(9) After having abandoned his boyhood delusions of professional footballing, Oliver went to Cambridge where he neglected his English degree to write and perform in the Footlights comedy troupe with his friend Richard Ayoade.
(10) So copiously did blood flow from his lower lip at one performance that his adversary, played by Hugh McDermott, held him up by the scruff of the neck for the audience to gape at the gore dripping over the footlights.
(11) Footlights, complete with Robinson's commentary and description of the story's evolution, is being launched by the Cineteca this week, with an event at the British Film Institute Southbank, London, featuring Robinson and Bloom, to whom the book is dedicated.
(13) He became a member of Footlights during what he depicts inevitably as a nadir for the august comedic institution, despite the fact that his fellow members included David Mitchell and Ayoade's former writing partner John Oliver , now the Daily Show With John Stewart 's Emmy-Award-winning British correspondent.
(14) Footlights, like Limelight, is a bittersweet piece of self-awareness by someone who understood that, partly due to J Edgar Hoover's efforts, he was losing his public.
(15) "As a student the only acting I did that was acceptable to me was the Footlights kind.
(16) Just The Tonic at The Caves, Thu to 28 Aug Sheeps: A Sketch Show Sheeps: A Sketch Show The Cambridge Footlights come up to Edinburgh every year to tout their latest wares, and though it would appear that every Footlights show since the time of Fry & Laurie has been enthusiastically performed, they've also been, well, a tiny bit rubbish.
(17) This year's 18-part series of the South Bank Show is currently running on ITV and has already included films about the influence of the Cambridge Footlights and a show following a year in the life of singer Will Young, which aired last night.
(18) The comedy seemed to be either straight standup or Footlights revue-type stuff.
(19) In his memoirs, Frost recalled attending the Michaelmas term 1958 societies fair at Cambridge: "Two of the large stalls were for Granta, the university's general arts magazine and the Footlights.
(20) Frost's first brush with showbusiness came as secretary of the Cambridge Footlights revue, where contemporaries remember the cast's bemusement when on tour to see posters declaring David Frost presents The Footlights.
Illuminate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.
(v. t.) To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.
(v. t.) To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
(v. t.) To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.
(v. i.) To light up in token or rejoicing.
(a.) Enlightened.
(n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(2) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(3) Naloxone injection into those rats exposed to constant illumination significantly increased hypothalamic levels of beta-endorphin compared to saline injected controls.
(4) These data show an extra-hepatic lipolytic effect of glucagon in vivo, but do not illuminate the significance of this effect in the intact animal.
(5) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
(6) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
(7) This 520-nm change can be used for the continuous measurement of pH changes in thylakoids during steady-state illumination.
(8) Photosynthetic activity of the cells was checked by placing the cell evenly illuminated in a (14)CO(2) atmosphere.
(9) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
(10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(11) Superoxide anion (O2.-) was photogenerated upon illumination of riboflavin in fluorescent light.
(12) One of these has high sporulation-inducing activity after illumination in vitro.
(13) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(14) The effects of continuous illumination, adrenalectomy and induction or inhibition of microsomal enzymes on antipyretic action of phenacetin were evaluated.
(15) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(16) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
(17) superficial or interstitial illumination) and the optical interaction coefficients of the irradiated tissue.
(18) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
(19) On prolonged UV-A illumination the ESR spectrum of 16-doxylstearic acid in dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles loaded with 8-methoxypsoralen changed dramatically as a second broad component gradually appeared.
(20) All plasma porphyrins could be protected for several days from similar photodegradation by performing all blood drawing, processing, and assay procedures under ordinary red-incandescent illumination, and by storage in the dark.