(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.
Norn
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Norna
Example Sentences:
(1) To resolve the apparent contradiction between Norn's work on human eyes suggesting that postoperative air protects the corneal endothelium and the work of Leibowitz on excised animal eyes suggesting that air damages the corneal endothelium, we have replicated Norn's findings in an animal model similar to that used by Leibowitz.
(2) This technique has been compared with that using the standardized Norn-pipette collecting fluid from the lateral part of the inferior fornix.
(3) Since fewer metabolically active cells may maintain corneal deturgesence even after cell loss we do not believe that Norn's work contradicts that of Leibowitz.
(4) N is also for Nibelungs , the race of dwarfs who live in the subterranean world of Nibelheim in the Ring cycle, and for Norns , three daughters of the earth goddess Erda who have a walk-on (or more usually sit-down) part in the Ring, where they are engaged in weaving the rope of destiny.
(5) November 8, 2013 David Buik (@truemagic68) What a messy set of Norn-farm Payrolls!
(6) 12.02pm: Sky's Norn Ironish correspondent Lawrie Sanchez looks glum and thinks his country's chances of finishing in the top two of their group with Italy, Serbia, Estonia, Slovenia and the Faroe Islands are slim.
(7) The methods of examination by which lacrimal insufficiency can be confirmed are discussed: Schirmer's test (I and II), Jones' test, Norn's dilution test, break-up time, tests with dyes such as fluorescein, rose bengal, and lissamine green 1%.
(8) Basophils were isolated with Day's technique modified by Shov and Norn.
(9) Possible cytological changes of the conjunctival fluid in association with physical activity were studied in a series of 39 subjects practising aerobics, 22 football players, and 29 marathon runners by means of the quantitative pipette method and the qualitative stix method of Norn.
(10) The Norn Lacrimal Dilution test showed increased tear flow after the climate-chamber exposures (P less than 0.05).
(11) to Norn 79%, and 55% for a standardized dilution (2.5 microliters of water) in the same pipette.