(n.) A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.
(n.) A woman of superior charms or excellence.
Example Sentences:
(1) A pony-tailed local businessman, Hall rose to prominence during the referendum campaign when he used a reconditioned Green Goddess fire engine to distribute pro-independence literature.
(2) "We are not victims, we are adventurous sex goddesses!"
(3) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
(4) The goddess Diana and her nymphs are bathing in a woodland pool when the hunter Actaeon chances by.
(5) Crowley, adds Breeze, “was many things and excelled at most: a record-setting mountaineer, a competition-level chess player, the best metrical poet of his generation in the estimation of some, a literary critic of international reputation, an innovative editor and book designer, a pioneer in the use of entheogens, and a lion of sexual liberation – he was above all a lover, of men, women, gods, goddesses and himself”.
(6) The temple itself was built in the 5th century BC by the city-state of Athens for Athena, its patron goddess, and it housed the tribute the Athenians received from the other city-states subject to them: hardly a symbol of Greek democracy or fellow-feeling.
(7) Such joie de vivre, coupled with such accomplishment, makes her a goddess.
(8) Placed in the foundation of the temple of the fertility goddess, its 21 lines call on those who find the temple to honor the king's name.
(9) "This is my England," Clifford said, vibrating with the bitch-goddess Success, as the gamekeeper tended his chicks.
(10) In the past three weeks alone she has performed on The Late Show With David Letterman , given a MOMA benefit, staged by Chanel and attended by David Bowie in honour of Tilda Swinton ("a real hero of mine," she tells me, " the woman is a goddess"), topped Time magazine's list of the world's most influential teenagers and signed a $2.5m publishing deal .
(11) I’m very proud of them.” Sitting in his chambers between a bust of Winston Churchill and a statuette of the Goddess of Democracy, the symbol of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Lee remembers strolling through the umbrella movement’s main camp, a sprawl of tents and political debate, three days before police finally cleared it, in December 2015.
(12) The British public is accustomed to the sight of celebrity chefs competing for column inches, TV airtime and prime bookshelf space, but yesterday new battlelines were drawn as domestic goddess Nigella Lawson launched her iPhone app, putting her in direct competition with Jamie Oliver.
(13) As a priority it will deal with the deployment of army-staffed Green Goddess fire engines.
(14) Other photographers in the show include Eugene von Bruenchenhein, who was inspired by wartime images of Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable to take thousands of photographs of his wife in poses from domestic goddess to Hollywood pin-up; and Lee Godie, who lived homeless on the streets of Chicago and used photo booths to capture herself in almost endlessly different guises.
(15) There are chapters – when one of the Pleiades comes to earth or Mary Poppins is hailed as a goddess at the zoo – which sound as if they could have been written by the theosophist Madame Blavatsky on a particularly dotty day.
(16) The ceremony had a bogus feel but, dressed in that clinging material the Athenian sculptors rendered so miraculously in marble, the virgins of Vesta the goddess of fire really did look as though they had served as caryatids or just stepped from an ancient frieze.
(17) It offers a rare chance to see films from Shanghai's 1930s golden age: classics such as 1948's Spring In a Small Town , which has been compared with the works of Ozu and Antonioni, or the 1934 silent movie The Goddess , starring screen heroine Ruan Lingyu – both of which have recently been restored and received like long-lost relatives by Chinese audiences.
(18) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
(19) His painting of a nude Hindu goddess, Saraswati, became the target of protests in 1996.
(20) All photos: City of Errors Athens got its name from Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom, which is itself a contradiction.
Mermaid
Definition:
(n.) A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite this exemption, things still managed to go tits-up early last year, when the social network deleted an image of Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid statue .
(2) So let's dry our guilt-induced " mermaid tears " – as these polluting plastic particles are poetically known – and face this issue.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Parakeet and the Mermaid’ at Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition, Tate Modern.
(4) Ditto the Little Mermaid’s Ariel, whose desire not just to change her circumstances but change her physical form has made her an unlikely object of identification among some younger members of the transgender community – a girl who believes herself literally born in the wrong body.
(5) The levels of two- and three-ring aromatics ranged from very low for the site outside Mermaid Sound and for one site within the Sound, to low for the four other sites within the Sound.
(6) The human and fishman MTs displayed a stoichiometry of 12 g atoms of Cu(I) per mol, while rainbow trout and mermaid MTs bound only 10.
(7) It is a figurehead maybe, although one that is less svelte mermaid than bullying bouncer.
(8) Sirenomelia, or the mermaid syndrome, is the most extreme example of the caudal regression syndrome.
(9) In the 80s, Cher's acting career was big news: she carved a niche as a tough mother with a heart in Face and Mermaids, and won an Oscar in 1988 for the quick-witted Moonstruck, in which she played a no-nonsense New Yorker falling in love over opera.
(10) Samples from sites within Mermaid Sound closest to the town and port of Dampier showed noticeably higher levels than those from outside; the present study does not allow the source of the PAHs to be determined.
(11) As the perceptive sports writer Jerry Izenberg once said: “If they trawl the Ohio river for a thousand years, they are more likely to find a mermaid than an Olympic gold medal.” It is a rebuttal that Ali himself would have found heartbreakingly funny – and true.
(12) And that, increasingly, people aren’t prepared to go to all the trouble of going out to eat at their favourite restaurant – not when they can have the same food while sprawling on the sofa in a novelty mermaid blanket watching Homeland .
(13) A family of synthetic genes was constructed encoding a rainbow trout metallothionein (MT), a human MT, and two chimeric molecules which contained respectively (i) the N-terminal (or head) domain of human MT followed by the C-terminal (or tail) domain of a fish MT (termed mermaid MT) and (ii) the head domain of fish MT fused with the tail domain of human MT (denoted fishman MT).
(14) I just shot the Mermaid Parade in New York and it killed me,” he says.
(15) But," he Hanks-ishly adds, "shop can be good, too …" After college, he was cast in the TV show Bosom Buddies and caught the eye of Ron Howard, who cast him in his breakthrough role in Splash, a ridiculous but, thanks to Hanks, charming modern-day update on The Little Mermaid.
(16) Medical intervention is very important, especially for teenagers who are already in puberty,” says Susie Green, chair of Mermaids and mother of a trans daughter.
(17) A five-year-old with a fascination for butterflies and caterpillars and mermaids who began talking about suicide … Our child lives as a girl now and her school describes her as "calm, mature, bright-eyed and intelligent".
(18) The English singer has since recorded many of these with US band Wilco as The Mermaid Avenue Sessions .
(19) The Mermaids website is quite negative,” she says.
(20) Coral-rock oysters were collected in September 1982 from six locations in the area of Mermaid Sound in North-Western Australia.