(1) In his previous job, as BBC Vision director, he made a generally favourable impression on media reporters, especially those from papers hostile to the corporation, for his willingness to attend friendly and gossipy dinners without being chaperoned by BBC minders.
(2) Rakoff's version of this story, however, comes with an extra, gossipy twist – particularly for those readers who move in New York media circles.
(3) Weekend newspaper supplements retailed gossipy accounts of how The Satanic Verses had failed to win the Booker prize, with malicious claims regarding Rushdie's tantrums when this happened.
(4) McBride confessed in the emails that most of the stories were "gossipy and intended to destabilised the Tories", according to the News of World, and admitted using "a bit of poetic licence".
(5) Davis gets on well with journalists: he is engaging, not pompous, open to ideas and gossipy, as well as – adds someone who knows him well – completely ruthless and entirely devoted to the cause of David Davis .
(6) However, instead of regarding Dr Kelly's mention of Mr Campbell as a "revelation", Watts dismissed it as "a gossipy aside comment".
(7) They include serious volumes such as Journey of the Reforms, the best-selling memoirs of Zhao Ziyang , the high-ranking reformist official who was imprisoned after the Tiananmen protests; as well as gossipy tomes such as The Secret Deals Between Xi Jinping and Bo Xilai , a fast read with few reliable facts.
(8) Her role The bluestocking who missed the story, or the sober Newsnight science editor who carefully chose not to report what she dismissed as a "gossipy aside" - both views held of Susan Watts, the second BBC journalist thrust into the limelight at the Hutton inquiry.
(9) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
(10) Too full of ideas to sleep, he started work on a new film or novel or play – or all at the same time – at 5am, ending in time for long gossipy lunches with friends and family, followed by theatre and parties in London.
(11) Dinsey started using the site OpenDiary from the late 90s onwards, and then moved on to MSN Spaces in 2004, writing a gossipy blog about who was kissing whom at school.
(12) The five booksellers – including a British and a Swedish national – had been linked to the same Hong Kong publisher and bookshop that specialised in gossipy works on the private lives and power struggles of China’s Communist party leaders.
(13) That’s why you see these artists become a tabloid regular and then become artistically and musically irrelevant, because they let [gossipy websites] stifle them.
(14) Some are gossipy and gonzo, like Bob Carr’s magnificently picaresque romp through the foreign affairs portfolio published earlier this year.
(15) Sociable, gossipy São Paulo crackles with life and noise and is much friendlier than might be expected: this is a city of immigrants, and foreigners are welcome.
(16) Sorkin wrote, after weeks of reporting the gossipy, juicy details of the hacked emails, the media finally “got serious”.
(17) He was gossipy, bitchy and very witty – fun to be around but also a huge snob.
(18) And yet Denton always loved gossipy details, as with his obvious joy at discovering that Barings rogue trader Nick Leeson used superman as his computer password.
(19) Thiel notoriously funded a lawsuit against the website Gawker in effort to shut the gossipy blog down.
(20) Another far less substantiated rumour concerns Judi Dench, with Big Shiny Robot's Full of Sith podcast claiming she's being considered for the role of Mon Mothma, a founder of the Rebel Alliance – the gossipy Latino Review also hinted at her casting.
Newsy
Definition:
(a.) Full of news; abounding in information as to current events.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both worked for Disney, so naturally were rooting for Newsies and Peter and the Starcatcher but magnanimously conceded that "we did go see Once today and it's a great show".
(2) Crucial exposure The composer Alan Menken, who has won more Oscars than any other living person, was awarded his first Tony for Newsies.
(3) Kazee's performance in Once is heartfelt but most pundits thought Jordan's confident, slick performance in Newsies would win.
(4) Presenter Evan Davis signed off the BBC2 flagship news programme with Newsy McNewsnight.
(5) The award for best actor in a musical was a race between two newbies: Kazee of Once and Jeremy Jordan of Newsies.
(6) There will be two web versions to choose from: one more laid back, giving the content of the day; the other one more newsy, rotating.
(7) Reuters , BBC News and the Guardian provide good newsy Twitter feeds.
(8) When he and lyricist Jack Feldman originally wrote the score for the 1992 movie version of Newsies, which was a critical and commercial flop, he was laden with a Razzie for worst song.
(9) With its largely British creative team, Once beat the boisterous corporate Disney behemoth Newsies to best musical, Steve Kazee won best actor in a musical, and John Tiffany won best director.
(10) Jackass – the newsie Facebook Twitter Pinterest Former Telegraph proprietor Conrad Black comes under pressure from Boulton while attempting to downplay his fraud conviction – and brands the political editor a "jackass".
(11) Presenters include Mark Lawson, Kirsty Lang and John Wilson, who says its popularity comes from its eclectic, buzzy formula: "It can be newsy and topical, unpredictable".
(12) It showed a fresh way of doing popular newsy programming, just as GMTV was going through a series of troubles, from a record £2m fine for premium phoneline competition deceptions , to silly stunts such as the Live Wedding event.
(13) Though he was the emollient partner of several more angular personalities on Today, including Robert Robinson and Brian Redhead, he was originally brought on board to give the programme a harder, more newsy flavour than Jack de Manio, who had been doing the job for 11 years.
(14) Anyway, he says, "there was a theme, which is vaguely newsy, and about power and art.