(n.) A style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
(2) His favourite literary genres as a child were detective stories and Greek myths.
(3) Taggart's recommission is also a further sign that ITV is becoming more flexible in the way it finances drama – the most expensive genre to produce – after the advertising recession forced it to cut its programming budget.
(4) The show is so out of touch that 17-year-old contestant Nicholas McDonald complained to Dermot live on air during week five that none of the genres had happened within his lifetime.
(5) However, in genres such as westerns, sci-fi and romance, well over 50% of sales could be in ebook form.
(6) No: what people really objected to – again, see the Man Booker forum – was not the genre but the quality.
(7) Photograph: Allstar So is the genre due a resurgence?
(8) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(9) Both talents combined to push the genre to its limits: Reed could make great art out of pop.
(10) Changing Rooms and Ground Force – market- leaders in the home make-over genre that was the telly sensation in the decade before incarceration game-shows – ran from 1996 to 2004 and 1997 to 2005 respectively.
(11) Anger is also being expressed in different genres and forms these days, add Blase and O'Brien.
(12) These exceptions must be signed off by the relevant genre controller, radio controller or head of programmes in the nations, the new BBC guidelines state.
(13) His knowledge of movies is vast – all kinds of movies, and I remember that he had a special fondness for genre pictures and for the work of Walter Hill and others – and he has always been very generous about sharing it with his readers.
(14) During Mr Thompson's big speech in Banff three years ago, after which he was marked out by many as a DG in waiting, he laid out a vision of a multichannel age in which the BBC would move from mixed genre, high audience channels to a range of digital services catering for niche audiences.
(15) Whether or not Moore takes credit, his electro house and amped-up dubstep sound has found its way into the fabric of American subculture in a way no other rave genre has before.
(16) The broadcaster, which has previously used the mockumentary genre to put Tony Blair on trial and execute Gary Glitter , will use actors alongside real-life footage for its fictional portrayal of the Ukip leader in Downing Street.
(17) Sky's snaring of Lumsden, holder of the most powerful job in British television comedy, and its move into a genre which is traditionally expensive and risky, follows bids by Sky1's director of programmes, Stuart Murphy, a former controller of BBC3, for established hits and talent from its terrestrial rivals.
(18) With the students back, parliament in session and that Killers album slowly being revealed as an overwrought dud, what better time for the greatest minds of their generation to go down the pub and invent a new genre?
(19) Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel American Gods is a version of that most American genre, the road narrative.
(20) The French unit also has proposals for a new film from Dutch genre icon Paul Verhoeven and a remake of 1988 cult horror Maniac Cop on its slate for Cannes.
Trance
Definition:
(n.) A tedious journey.
(n.) A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.
(n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.
(v. t.) To entrance.
(v. t.) To pass over or across; to traverse.
(v. i.) To pass; to travel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Turing to hypnosis, it is made clear that a trance is the execution of a momentarily proposed programme; it is not the result of a generalised mechanical action, but is preordained and geared to various situations.
(2) Trance logic results from the "metasuggestion," experienced through participation in a formal induction procedure, that hypnosis entails new rules of experience and behavior.
(3) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(4) GHB can induce NREM and REM sleep, anaesthesia, hypothermia, and a trance-like state which has been considered a model for petit mal epilepsy.
(5) Separate item pools were developed to measure each disposition: Trance, Nonconscious Involvement, Archaic Involvement, Drowsiness, Relaxation, Vividness of Imagery, Absorption, and Access to the Unconscious.
(6) Whereas Erickson claimed that 97% of his "deep trance" subjects and 90% of his "medium trance" subjects exhibited literal responses, we found that 87.5% of hypnotized, high-hypnotizable subjects' responses were nonliteral.
(7) "), or Mrs Wilfer, after placing Bella in the magnificent coach of the Boffins, continuing to "air herself … in a kind of splendidly serene trance on the top step" for the benefit of the neighbours.
(8) 4 types of delusional and hallucinatory experience with certain ensuing therapeutic reactions are distinguished: Type 1: pseudonormality and denial of delusions, type 2: overlapping of reality and delusion and frantic attempts to separate the two realms, type 3: hallucinatory absorption and trance-like states, type 4: dramatic delusional play and "happy" hallucinations in regressive psychoses.
(9) On this basis, it is hypothesized that while both the SSC and possession trances involve hippocampal-septal stimulation, the difference between the SSC and the possession states includes the amygdala involvement associated with the latter.
(10) The global rise of CBF in H may be an activation effect caused by resistance against the hypnotizer: the deeper the trance, the smaller the CBF increase in the motor cortical area needed for maintaining catalepsy of the right arm and in temporal cortical fields processing acoustic inputs.
(11) The state of trance-coma and the value of 15 scores and less should be taken into consideration as a contraindication for the solution of the question of operation in patients with cranio-cerebral traumas.
(12) It is also noted that the efficacy of the treatment would appear to depend on achieving a satisfactory depth of hypnotic trance.
(13) The author argues that the similarity of the Bushman trance state, kia and that of drug-induced altered states of consciousness has been paid too little attention in the research, and that an enigma currently exists with regard to the degree to which plant drugs may have influenced the !Kung trance phenomenon and healing beliefs.
(14) These results recall the theory that stress predisposes to hypnotic trance.
(15) Statistical evaluation of the six variables (age, sex, result, trance depth, psychological factors and severity of the asthma) confirmed the clinical impression that the ability to go into a deep trance (closely associated with the youthfulness of the subject) gives the best possibility of improvement, especially if there are significant aetiological psychological factors present and the asthma is not severe.
(16) After fantasy work in a trance state a patient with post-traumatic headaches experienced some relief as other symptoms appeared, and then total relief along with the disappearance of the other symptoms.
(17) Once, a businessman sitting next to me on a plane to Tangiers told me his wife's mother had the ability, after going into a music-induced trance, to drink boiling water, and to spit it out again a few seconds later ice cold.
(18) Has he ever actually put someone in a trance by doing this dance?
(19) Korine is currently putting the finishing touches to a little project that involves him performing a Haitian "voodoo tap-dance" that sends people into a trance.
(20) The manifestations of the trance, and its course and outcome are outlined.