(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) We also remind them that negative feedback is as important as glowing praise.
(3) This procedure has been implemented in a computer program which performs the automatic evaluation of the glow curves and extracts the dose information contained in the PTTL curves.
(4) Draghi's action received a glowing critical reception across Europe .
(5) In bone tissue, so far, positive effects of glow discharge have not been reported.
(6) And these night scenes glow with subtle, vibrant colour.
(7) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
(8) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(9) Plasma polymerized ethylene (PPE), styrene (PPS), and chlorotrifluoroethylene (PPCTFE) were synthesized by exposing the monomeric gases to an inductively coupled radio frequency "glow-discharge" field.
(10) We hope there is a post-Commonwealth Games glow with the home nations doing so well, but first and foremost it is an entertainment show."
(11) Under more drastic conditions (higher temperatures and flowing air), glow occurred in several instances resulting in an increased production oxidation products as represented by CO2, COS, SO2, HCOOH, and CH3COOH, among others.
(12) Investigations of the functions cited in the title were performed in 23 persons with a normal visual system in conditions of equal illumination, first the glow and the next day or later--the sodium one.
(13) These surface treatments allowed testing of the same basic material which was mill-finished, metallurgically polished, electrochemically oxidized, sintered with a porous surface, and glow-discharged.
(14) Hence the new "tradition" of each party leader producing a mute but glamorous wife for a postcoital glow after a speech.
(15) In fact, the numbers were much worse that predicted, and ensured the would be no post-convention glow for Obama.
(16) An attempt was made to graft the monomer HEMA to the polymer surface by "Glow discharge" technique.
(17) Referring to the spirit generated by the London Olympics, he said: "It would have been much more threatening to us if it had all been about the positive, warm glow of 2012, then the first world war commemorations – 300 years of kinship and family ties."
(18) The mountains are glowing red and it will be a good harvest,” she predicted.
(19) Everything is conforming nicely to my expectation that this will all be a disappointment, but then news comes of glowing press, a five-star review, bigger, louder buzz, and comparisons of the film with Billy Wilder and the screwball comedies of the 40s and 50s.
(20) I sat there, bundled up against the cold, on benches carved from ice, with glistening icy walls and snow flurries falling through ventilation holes, while a folk band played glowing instruments – carved out of ice.
Radiant
Definition:
(a.) Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays; radiating; radiate.
(a.) Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat; issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun.
(a.) Beaming with vivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.
(a.) Giving off rays; -- said of a bearing; as, the sun radiant; a crown radiant.
(a.) Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; -- said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
(n.) The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.
(n.) A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
(n.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The thermoregulatory effects of isothermogenic doses of isoproterenol (Iso) and a novel beta-agonist (BRL 35135) were tested in rats at 22 degrees C and in rats trained to bar press for radiant heat at -8 degrees C. BRL 35135 produced hyperthermia at 22 degrees C and reduced operant responding for heat at -8 degrees C, whereas Iso reduced body temperature and increased operant responding.
(2) During five of the treatments skin cooling, by means of initiating air flow through the radiant heating device, was necessary during the plateau phase because rectal temperature exceeded the target value.
(3) It has been found that the UV radiation-induced extreme state of the cells in a radiant culture produces distantly in an intact detector culture, which has only an optic contact with it, the cytopathic effect (CPE) as a repercussion of a specificity of morphological manifestations imprinted in the affected culture.
(4) Extracellular activity of single WDR neurons in the spinal dorsal horn, which was evoked by a radiant heat stimulus (51 degrees C), was recorded in decerebrate, spinally transected cats.
(5) In both patients, there was a more or less remote history of eye exposure to some form of radiant energy, together with other possible etiologic factors.
(6) A study was performed to investigate whether measurements of the evaporation rate from the skin of newborn infants by the gradient method are affected by the presence of non-ionizing radiation from phototherapy equipment or a radiant heater.
(7) Tiny (0.2% TBS), partial thickness, non-contact radiant heat burns in guinea pigs resulted, within 3 hours, in significant edema formation and protein leakage at the site of the injury.
(8) Brief radiant heat pulses, generated by a CO2 laser, were used to activate slowly conducting afferents in the hairy skin in man.
(9) In the incubator, the spatial variation in radiant temperatures exceeded 2 degrees C, or four times the spatial variation in air temperatures (0.5 degrees C).
(10) The water losses create an additional problem in managing infants under radiant warmers.
(11) After Second World War army service, his physique, graceful carriage and radiant grin took him from lift attendant to Broadway and instant movie stardom in The Killers (1946).
(12) Experimental C-fiber pain caused by radiant heat was applied to the skin area supplied by the left sural nerve of 20 subjects.
(13) The Bair Hugger set on "medium" decreased heat loss more than each radiant warming device and as much as the circulating-water blanket.
(14) Tail-flick latency (the time needed to evoke the tail-flick reflex by noxious radiant heat) was reduced for 1-4 min after intrathecal administration of substance P (5 micrograms), but the tail skin temperature was not significantly changed.
(15) She looks cheery when attacking, even cheerier when attacked and absolutely radiant when descending into a bog of half-truths and fictions.
(16) Compensation for cold air temperature was imperfect because the chicks avoided zones of high radiant flux.
(17) Above threshold, mass removal rates were proportional to laser radiant exposure.
(18) A model of ocular and facial skin exposure to UVB is presented that combines interview histories of work activities, leisure activities, eyeglass wearing, and hat use with field and laboratory measurements of UV radiant exposure.
(19) (table; see text) The direct gain from solar radiation is approximately 100 W. In the shade period the reduction in radiant heat gain is compensated for by the decreased evaporation of sweat.
(20) Possible interactions between mu- and delta-receptors in the rat spinal cord were studied using the radiant-heat-induced tail flick response and the highly selective mu- or delta-ligands: [NMePhe3,D-Pro4] morphiceptin(PL-17) and cyclic[D-Pen2,D-Pen5]enkephalin(DPDPE).