(n.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his last couple of months as PM he was coming down here often Freya Pharo “It shouldn’t lose any of its magic,” Hackett said, addressing concerns that the pub’s atmosphere would change with its owners.
(2) Rescuing George Osborne's cat, Freya, has put me at the centre of a media storm in the past 24 hours.
(3) Its abolition is a distressing defeat | Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Read more ‘ The message it sends is that you’re not welcome, and only the rich can go’ Freya Jeffries, 20, going into her third year studying English at Southampton University, has the full grant.
(4) But I was out with an old person and it was out of order.” His partner Tracey Wicks and their daughter Freya, 14, were due to visit him in hospital.
(5) My partner James was in the other room and he came in straight afterwards, and then our other children, Freya, who's seven, and four-year-old Lilly, came in to meet their new brother.
(6) It's been amazing how much interest has been generated by a simple act of kindness to the chancellor's cat, but Freya is like the people we work with – they all deserve some help in getting home.
(7) It is good to see the organisations investigating and I hope they can quickly get to the bottom of it.” Joining Farah in calling for transparency are Jo Pavey, Lisa Dobriskey, Jenny Meadows, Freya Murray, Hatti Archer, Emma Jackson and Andy Baddeley.
(8) The interns Freya Edmondson, second-year fashion design student at Kingston University I've dressed models backstage at London Fashion Week quite a few times and it's pretty much all students.
(9) Freya Horne, counsel for the San Francisco sheriff’s department, said on Friday that federal detention requests were not sufficient to hold someone.
(10) Freya Parker, part of the acclaimed sketch troupe Lazy Susan, said that Williams's drama had been as inspiring to her as his comedy.
(11) Freya settled straight away on my pillow and purred peacefully until I had to leave her to head out on an early morning outreach shift helping London's homeless.
(12) Tim Lott and Josephine Cox opted for Pip and Oliver respectively; Freya North chose Uriah Heep, describing him as a "loathsome character who seeps from the pages like a noxious gas"; Daisy Goodwin went for "the anti-heroine of Bleak House", Lady Dedlock, while Adele Parks favoured the "morally ambiguous" Nancy from Oliver Twist.
(13) The trainer, who details his own near-fatal encounter with an aggressive whale called Freya in the opening pages of his book, weighed everything up and decided, in August 2012, that it was time to quit.
(14) The lady who answered the phone expressed surprise at hearing that Freya had made it to Vauxhall from Downing Street, over a mile away.
(15) It didn't seem important at the time but we took a photo of Freya with a note calling on the chancellor not to cut funding to homelessness services.
(16) I was talking about it with the fish men today, we don’t bat an eyelid, because in the same way we go ‘let’s go and have a Chinese’, I’m sure the Chinese go ‘let’s go out and have an English’.” Freya Pharo, who has been bar manager at the Plough for the past eight months, was also unconcerned about potential changes.
Thor
Definition:
(n.) The god of thunder, and son of Odin.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(2) I have no idea what it would take to kill Thor; nor for that matter does Loki.
(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) The awards were announced by Rush and Thor star Chris Hemsworth and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
(5) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
(6) Thor Marvel has already made the change in the comic books, revealing earlier this year that Thor’s long-term love interest Jane Foster has become the new female Thor after picking up the hammer Mjolnir and finding herself more worthy of it than the son of Odin himself.
(7) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
(8) He duly obliged and the crowd was treated to the first look at Age of Ultron, starting with a witty interchange between the Avengers as each, enjoying a drink and dressed in civilian clothing, tries to lift Thor’s hammer.
(9) He still undid the holster on his thigh, took out Mjølnir – he had named his Glock after Thor’s hammer – and crossed the road.
(10) Oddly enough, Thor (in which Chris Hemsworth plays the Nordic god, come to save us all from Christopher Ecclestone) does pass, since it features a scene in which Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings discuss nuclear physics.
(11) Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition was a product of the European enlightenment’s belief in progressive learning.
(12) Cellular sensitization to human myelin A1 protein, peptide L (residues 1-116), peptide T (residues 117-170), and petide Y (residues 154-170) was studied using the Thor-Rocklin MIF assay system.
(13) Bettany, who until now has voiced Tony Stark’s computerised assistant Jarvis, said: “I used to turn up in a dark room for 45 minutes and get a bag of cash and now I have to work for my money.” When Hemsworth was asked what he would still like to do as Thor, he said: “Turning into a woman” – a reference to the pre-Con decision by Marvel Comics to trumpet its upcoming next iteration of the god of thunder as a woman.
(14) Back to article (2) Pacific Rim, Thor: The Dark World and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
(15) Chris Hemsworth, AKA Thor, God of Thunder, crown prince of Asgard, calls me from the M25.
(16) Robin van Persie eventually tuned into him and took Robben’s fine through-ball in his stride but was denied by Hannes Thor Halldorsson, before Robben himself passed up a chance, nodding wide when it looked easier to convert Daley Blind’s cross.
(17) Twelve months ago, Chris Hemsworth, the actor who plays Kevin, was in every multiplex as Thor , he of the unreconstructed chivalry and massive mallet.
(18) And I realised, I ain't Thor without the costume and the hammer."
(19) This thing is starting to get old … Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Chris Evans as Captain America in The Avengers In fact, the rise of superhero movies signals the triumph of the neurotic over the maverick.
(20) The comic, launching in October, is billed by Marvel as "one of the most shocking and exciting changes ever to shake one of the 'big three' of Captain America, Iron Man and Thor".