(a.) Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans.
(2) The National theatre's Broadway version of One Man, Two Guvnors, starring James Corden as a gluttonous buffoon, has received seven nominations at this year's Tony Awards – but was trumped by the largely British creative team behind Once , which picked up 11 to lead the pack.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Not once do I think about what isn’t on the plate, so gluttonous is my embrace of what is.
(4) He was fortunate enough to fall in with the archetypal production team of the coke-dusted, money-swamped, excess-craving 1980s, Jerry Bruckheimer and the late Don Simpson – gluttons for style over substance and masters of the hi-concept pitch meeting – after they saw a Saab car commercial Tony had shot.
(5) You either have to be young or a glutton for punishment."
(6) In this sense (whether we agree with it or not), all modern foodists, as the Atlantic writer BR Myers argues in his incisive "Moral Crusade Against Foodies" , are certainly gluttons.
(7) The Obama campaign is now running a new campaign ad against Mitt Romney that rails against a litany of Wall Street "criminals" and "gluttons of greed", but as David Dayen astutely notes , those examples were all imprisoned during the Bush era because the Obama administration has prosecuted no significant Wall Street executives for the 2008 financial collapse and thus have none of their own examples to highlight: "So the Obama campaign could not fill a list of three Wall Street criminals that the Obama Justice Department actually sent to jail.
(8) Scott Walker announces 2016 campaign with checklist of conservative aims Read more If you are a glutton for punishment, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s Monday announcement of his presidential aspirations was just a taste of the masochistic romp ahead: all the hallmarks of everything odious and petty about the 2012 campaign are there already, only ramped up and accompanied by bad ideas copied from other states.
(9) These are men and women, living in shelters and out of their cars, who have government jobs – the kind of workers conservatives love to paint as greedy, gluttonous pigs .
(10) A study was made of the pathogenicity of brucellae culture isolated from various wild and Game animals of the extreme North of the USSR (wolf, polar fox, ermine, glutton).
(11) Hermitage and Middleton have also found a stalwart supporter in Edward Clay , the former high commissioner to Kenya, who famously spoke of gluttonous Kenyan officials "vomiting over our [Kenyans' and donors'] shoes".
(12) Vietnam is known for its fresh ingredients and healthy cuisine but Obama’s choice of bun cha, which with its fatty pork and sweet broth is at the more gluttonous end of the country’s culinary spectrum, might have raised the eyebrows of his wife Michelle who has long campaigned for healthy eating.
(13) Nobody from Bank of America or Wells Fargo or Citigroup or JPMorgan Chase or Goldman Sachs or Bear Stearns or Morgan Stanley or Merrill Lynch or even Countrywide or Ameriquest was available to stand in as a 'glutton of greed' in this advertisement.
(14) Is there any communication or entertainment or social format that has not yet been commandeered by the ravenous gastrimarge for his own gluttonous purpose?
Pie
Definition:
(n.) An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
(n.) See Camp, n., 5.
(n.) A magpie.
(n.) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.
(n.) The service book.
(n.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
(v. t.) See Pi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(2) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(3) This technique is compared with calculated outline and ring source attenuation correction techniques in a pie phantom.
(4) We describe a premature infant with progressive worsening of unilateral PIE, which was successfully treated by selective bronchial balloon catheterization after failure of conservative management.
(5) Studied were the composition and the technologic properties of the milk of Dutch Black pied cattle under this country's conditions.
(6) Superfusion with 10(-6) to 10(-4) M arachidonic acid resulted in a slow developing positive inotropic effect (PIE) in a concentration-dependent manner.
(7) The 2 Fat Butchers in Walmer offers high-quality free-range meat and excellent pork pies and scotch eggs.
(8) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
(9) She almost wills her biscuits to dry out and her pies to sink.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The big difference is that I’ve got my finger in all the pies, whereas Lord Farquaad only thought he did.
(11) A total of 33 strains of staphylococci, isolated from Black Pied cows with subclinical mastitis (conformed by the brom-thymol test), were studied to establish their biochemical properties and resistance to antibiotics as well as the occasional correlation between enzyme activity and resistance.
(12) An increase in eosinophils carrying surface IgE was demonstrated in alveolar cells from PIE Syndrome particularly with hypodense eosinophils from CEP patients.
(13) The appearance of PIE and its complications, i.e., pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum, occurred over a wide range of mean airway pressures and positive end-expiratory pressures; there was no direct relationship between barotrauma and mean airway pressure or positive end-expiratory pressure.
(14) MCI-154 (10(-7) to 10(-4) M) produced a concentration-dependent PIE amounting to 75% of the maximal effect of isoproterenol.
(15) The killer's taste in movies stretches from westerns to gangster thrillers to Elvis Presley musicals: apple-pie imports that were boycotted by socialist president Sukarno's coalition before the coup.
(16) A case of PIE syndrome induced by Saiboku-To (TJ96) is reported.
(17) She had a history of PIE syndrome induced by disodium cromoglycate 4 years previously (Jpn.
(18) It will be streamed live here: Monetary Policy Committee August 2013 Inflation Report My colleague Andrew Sparrow will be live-blogging the whole session here: Mark Carney gives evidence to the Commons Treasury committee: Politics live blog 9.52am BST This graphic shows how most of the Royal Mail's revenues come from its parcels and letters divisions, although its European parcels business, GLS, makes a decent contribution (with revenue of £1.5m, out of a total pie of over £9bn.
(19) Safdie himself still maintains a pied-à-terre in the 13-storey building, which stands on a narrow, man-made peninsula just south of the Old Port section of Montreal.
(20) I got it wrong on PIE and I apologise for having done so.