(n.) A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was fine work from the Dardenne brothers – their Le Gamin au Vélo was a modern reworking of Oliver Twist and Bicycle Thieves .
(2) Samantha Barks (the Les Misérables movie) stars as the Gallic gamine with Adam Chanler-Berat (Next to Normal, Peter and the Starcatcher) as her fanciful love interest.
(3) That's all well and good for gamine young things like you, but for the rest of us who don't want to look like Grayson Perry, any thoughts?
(4) Her quiet lifestyle, gamine looks and infrequent personal appearances have fuelled her reputation as a misanthropic genius.
(5) Paulette Goddard as the gamin has taken kindly to his style.
(6) Sure, the models might look all gamine and cute in their "boyfriend" jeans in magazines ("I'm so thin my jeans are barely clinging to my hipbones!")
(7) As it is, it won the Grand Prix, jointly with the Dardenne brothers' Le Gamin au Vélo, which was a powerful and involving work, but not obviously a progression and development from their earlier films.
(8) As Olympic fever will take over next year, the Dardennes here had lovely Cécile de France in Le Gamin au Vélo , and I hear of plans for two British cycling films: James Erskine is recounting the life of Italian Tour de France winner Marco Pantani and Shane Meadows is making a biopic of 1960s British cyclist Tom Simpson.
(9) But where Tautou, gamine and Gallic, belongs to a highly bankable tradition, Sy is a one-off, at least for now.
(10) Two different styles of street life are presented--the gamines and chupagruesos.
(11) Cannes favourites the Dardennes brothers, two time recipients of the Palme d'Or, shared the Grand Prix for Le Gamin au Velo, a neo-realist tale of bad parenting and bike-riding in Belgium.
(12) Rodin's 'Thinker' with a xylophone of ribs and a gamine haircut.
(13) The programmers seemed to group themes in batches this year, so the early days of the festival had female film-makers, then we moved through a couple of days of sex and paedophilia (bordello movie The House of Tolerance , Austrian film Michael ), before fathers and sons took over ( Tree of Life , Le Gamin au Vélo , Footnote ), then French politics ( La Conquête , Pater ), then depression ( The Beaver , Melancholia ), antisemitism ( The Beaver , Melancholia ) and, eventually, sexual politics (Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In , The Source ).
(14) And you've seen even more full-page magazine ads featuring the same ultra-long-and-thin gamines wearing that outfit, or part of it, trying to sell you jewellery, shoes or designer bags.
Homeless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of a home.
Example Sentences:
(1) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
(2) Homeless children (n = 167) had lower height percentiles when compared with domiciled children (n = 167; P less than .001) and when compared with NCHS standards (P less than .001).
(3) In a multivariate regression model noncompliance was significantly associated with the absence of AIDS or ARC (p less than 0.001), homelessness (p less than 0.005), and alcoholism (p less than 0.05).
(4) This paper, which draws on the author's experience as chairman of the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), describes what is known about the characteristics of homeless persons and the causes of homelessness, and about the health status of homeless persons, which is often not very good (but not significantly worse, it would appear, than that of other low-income persons).
(5) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.
(6) The newspaper is the brainchild of Jaime Villalobos, who saw homeless people selling The Big Issue while he was studying natural resource management in Newcastle.
(7) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
(8) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
(9) The "Big Blue" van of The Children's Aid Society brings much needed health services to homeless and underserved children of New York City.
(10) England’s most-capped player, Fara Williams, was homeless for seven years while playing for club and country.
(11) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(12) After reviewing the needs of the homeless mentally ill, the author makes recommendations for immediate action.
(13) It is of course important that migrants are not scapegoated; but such pious deceit from comfortable middle-class commentators can only provoke the unemployed, the low-paid and the homeless.
(14) The GMB union said that there was a risk that vulnerable people could be made homeless, but in the event of insolvency, Southern Cross's 31,000 homes would be run by local authorities or landlords on behalf of an administrator.
(15) Demographic analysis indicated that homeless children were predominantly Hispanic Americans.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Both San Francisco and Los Angeles have high-profile measures aimed to tackle homelessness in the west.
(17) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
(18) So our house is open to visitors, and you are always welcome.” A few weeks after we left, the Gregório river oveflowed, wiping out five villages, destroying four years worth of handicrafts and carpentry and leaving hundreds of people homeless.
(19) Psychology can contribute in the development of effective programs for homeless individuals struggling with addiction and alcoholism.
(20) Although it was projected to save £270m, that sum "does not take account of the additional costs to local authorities (through homelessness and temporary accommodation)," he said.