(1) Days and Nights in the Forest , which began as a comedy about Calcuttan gents on safari for aboriginal villagers, before shading into something almost too dark for my comprehension.
(2) She concluded her speech with a message for the audience - perhaps all of us - perhaps some of us - perhaps one person in particular, a snowy haired gent from Queensland.
(3) A new albumin variant of a family in Rome has been studied and, in respect of CISMEL standards, it has been classified as "very fast type gent".
(4) The susceptibility patterns of clinical Gram-negative isolates were determined to cefotaxime (CTX) and desacetylcefotaxime (dCTX) alone and in combination with gentamicin (GENT) or tobramycin (TOB) by an agar dilution technique.
(5) The estimation of the variants' relative mobility at three pH allowed us to distinguish three fast-moving variants (Gent, Vanves, and Reading) and five slow-moving variants (Sondrio, Roma, Christchurch, Lille, and B) in the French population.
(6) Instead, he was re-imagined as a suave gent in a v-neck cashmere sweater, mixing drinks, listening to records, and appreciating the 'finer things in life', like jazz and beautiful women.
(7) While Gent’s performance appeared slightly more nervous at the end of the second half, the hosts maintained their lead until the final whistle.
(8) Mark Rylance was a perfect gent, David Oyelowo took my phone from me and took the picture repeatedly until he was satisfied and Ava DuVernay was just brilliant.
(9) I would describe her as … sheepish.” He later said: “Ms Cafferkey got through the screening area with what I would call as deception.” After Cafferkey tested positive for Ebola, Nick Gent, a doctor and deputy dead of PHE’s emergency response department, was drafted in to assess the efficacy of the screening process.
(10) The properties of these revertants suggest that reversion of double opal-mutants is effected by the activity of some gent-suppressor appeared in the phage genome.
(11) Following Bishop's withdrawal, the list of candidates is understood to include Sir Christopher Gent, the former Vodafone chief and non-executive chairman of GlaxoSmithKline; Sir Christopher Bland, the former BT chairman; the British Airways chairman Martin Broughton; and Niall FitzGerald, the former chief executive of Unilever and deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters.
(12) He would replace Sir Christopher Gent, the current chairman, who has indicated he intends to stand down at the end of 2015 after almost 10 years in the role at the pharmaceutical company, which is battling for its reputation in the midst of bribery allegations.
(13) Proper gent of radio and Junior Choice was a classic.
(14) Ladies, don your pantsuits, and gents, grab your red power ties: we're headed to Washington for the main event.
(15) Zenit lead on a maximum nine points after they won 3-1 at home to Lyon, with Gent and Lyon each on one point.
(16) What a gent x August 27, 2014 Sue Perkins (@sueperkins) All getting a little inflamed for my liking.
(17) Corporate governance codes mean Gent and Broughton would have to give up their chairmanships to take the post.
(18) The monster who had caused misery for thousands was the dapper gent serving him sweet tea, playing Cliff Richard records and teaching his grandchildren to care for injured animals.
(19) He was one of the very old-school London criminal gents.
(20) The dapper gent kicked off his career at 15 in Ernest Hemingway’s old haunt Chicote, before opening this cocktail lounge in 1992.
Pretty
Definition:
(superl.) Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem.
(superl.) Moderately large; considerable; as, he had saved a pretty fortune.
(superl.) Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense.
(superl.) Mean; despicable; contemptible; -- used ironically; as, a pretty trick; a pretty fellow.
(superl.) Stout; strong and brave; intrepid; valiant.
(adv.) In some degree; moderately; considerably; rather; almost; -- less emphatic than very; as, I am pretty sure of the fact; pretty cold weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(2) Not making a sound for 24 hours pretty nearly killed me.
(3) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.
(4) It may unsettle Exxon Mobil a little but they are pretty experienced now and I don’t think they would derail anything,” she said.
(5) United and West Ham are on similar runs and can feel pretty happy about themselves but are not as confident away from home as they are at home and that will have to change if they are to make ground on the top teams.
(6) When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks?
(7) We’ve got a lot of work to do but I’m feeling pretty confident.
(8) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(9) No one condones what happened in the 70s, but I think this is pretty appalling."
(10) Which is good news for anyone who likes this kind of thing (which is, let's face it, pretty much everyone.
(11) Woodall added: “Pretty much everything [is a potential source for what we found].
(12) There's no doubt Twitter is, for those who are into that kind of thing, a first-class social networking medium (the proof: pretty much every other social networking site, including Facebook, has tried to buy it and, having failed, adopted a whole raft of blatantly Twitter-like features of their own).
(13) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
(14) She said the UK law on assisted suicide infringed Pretty's human rights, under article two of the European convention – the right to life.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Terms and Conditions May Apply – trailer It’s pretty simple, really.
(16) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
(17) Chelsea might recover under similar circumstances, but I reckon they need a pretty big overhaul.
(18) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
(19) "I have always been of the view that it is a false dichotomy, and one that is pretty much built-in by our education system unfortunately," he said this weekend.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bus belching smoke in Bogotá Pretty dirty.