(n.) A kingfisher. By modern ornithologists restricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the halcyon, which was anciently said to lay her eggs in nests on or near the sea during the calm weather about the winter solstice.
(1) In the future search for coalition partners, Merkel will be heavily reliant on the hapless foreign minister and Liberal Democrat leader Guido Westerwelle, while the revitalised Social Democrats and the ever-rising Greens can start dreaming again of the halcyon days under Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer.
(2) No one is expecting a return the halcyon days of the early noughties when Big Brother regularly brought Channel 4 audiences of 4 million plus, big online audiences and page after page of tabloid coverage throughout the summer months.
(3) I remember Peter Shilton and the like doing this on what seemed like a regular basis (although obviously not in the 70s when I was a wee lad)" queried Neil Denny, back in the halcyon days of 2003.
(4) Acid phosphatase activity was histochemically localized in the proventriculus of two birds namely Ploceus philippinus and Halcyon smyrnensis.
(5) Yes, Fallon may long for the halcyon days when you could call a spade a spade, but since the race-hate sitcom Love Thy Neighbour was cancelled in the mid 1970s, those days are over.
(6) The halcyon days of the mid 20th century, where more mothers did stay at home and the father could be a breadwinner, was not the norm for more than a handful of decades.
(7) Equally, she does not shy away from emotive language - similar to the majority of her peers - saying: We do not live in halcyon world where choice exists for everyone.
(8) If Margate can emulate St Ives, it will mark a stunning comeback for a town whose halcyon days are long behind it.
(9) Playwright and director Shoji Kokami's Halcyon Days looks at the rise to cult status of so-called suicide websites reflecting their proliferation in recent years, particularly in Japan and South Korea.
(10) In those far-off, halcyon days, local authorities had been obliged by the Conservatives' 1962 Education Act not only to pay full-time students' tuition fees but also a contribution towards maintenance as well: a benefit my generation took for granted.
(11) Limited data on mental health suggest that the halcyon picture of country life may be grossly distorted.
(12) Pleasance, Sun to 27 Aug Lyn Gardner Halcyon Days, London Halcyon Days.
(13) Platinum discs for her 2010 debut album, the electronica-rippled Lights , and its 2012 follow-up, Halcyon , hang in the hallway.
(14) "Originally regional newspapers were run by entrepreneurial-type people back in the halcyon days.
(15) In what must now seem like the halcyon days of opposition, when he watched a rightwing government disintegrate in grace-and-favour scandals, George Papandreou uttered the immortal words: "The money exists, it is only that Mr [Kostas] Karamanlis prefers to give it to the few and powerful."
(16) There's a quiet track on Halcyon (co-written with Justin Parker) called I Know You Care that Goulding has introduced, at gigs, as a song about her absent father.
(17) It sounds almost halcyon; the perfect melting-pot with children of all classes and backgrounds getting on together.
(18) The rights had becomebecame available after Halcyon, the company that produced Terminator Salvation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009 .
(19) Throughout Ghomeshi’s trial, as his lawyer Marie Heinen ripped apart the accusers , I found myself recalling a line from Philip Roth’s The Human Stain, set during the halcyon years when America’s biggest problem was the president’s joint taste for cigars and interns.
(20) "He appears to want to take us back to some halcyon age but it is a regressive agenda.
(1) The Ss became extremely placid and tame or were profoundly depressed in their overall behavior most of the time.
(2) Infants in the third quartile were fussy at the commencement of the period and became gradually more placid from the fifth week of life.
(3) I vote for who I want.” embed The Guardian asked Placide, who was naturalized as an American citizen in 1990 and who works an evening shift for a nursing agency to put her two children through college, whether she thought Trump had made America great again.
(4) There are vast areas in which my peaceful indifference to what Amazon is and does can only be surpassed by Amazon’s presumably equally placid indifference to what I say and do.
(5) "A lot of teens in the early noughties were taking ketamine, which was a very placid, down drug that kept you in your own zone.
(6) As our car crawls through central London, from WPP's Mayfair head office to Millbank, where Sorrell is to sit on a panel, the dog sits placidly in the back, lolling its head in the sun.
(7) One personality was irritable and hostile, the other placid; in each case, a major seizure preceded the shift from the former to the latter.
(8) Even Angela Merkel of Germany, that placid sheet anchor of European stability, faces grassroots challenges from left and right.
(9) Read today's Rumour Mill here 9.23am BST Germany's Per Mertesacker is a pretty placid guy off the pitch, so when he gets shirty with a journalist you know he's had a long day.
(10) Do we just placidly accept their ideologically driven desire to drive back the frontiers of the state, to cut and privatise?
(11) And I don’t think I have ever achieved that almost pastoral Christmas nirvana, always promoted in tinselly TV ads, of just sitting placidly around after Christmas lunch and then smilingly responding as one’s child shows you a present without complaining or demanding anything.
(12) Were this just the froth of diehard Brexiteers at an otherwise placid time, we’d move on faster than you could say “ Bill Cash” .
(13) They need to get it done.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marie Claire Placide, a dress shop owner and fashion designer, in Bangor, Pennsylvania.
(14) Aisikaier's life at the park is placid, if not slightly purgatorial.
(15) He wanted so much to convince his mates that he really had spied a miracle and to make sure that his normally placid mind had not fallen victim of some strange figment of the imagination, a confidence trick, a sudden mirage brought on by the unrelenting rays of the sun.'
(16) Danny Rynne, a scaffolder from Enfield, described Mahmoud as “lovely” and “placid”.
(17) After suffering a carbon monoxide intoxication, a thirty-nine-year-old patient presented a marked behavioral change, with a severe anterograde and retrograde amnesia, extreme placidity, bulimia, and hypersexuality.
(18) They noticed that 19 of the 20 patients were mentally slower; 11 were markedly aggressive and 8 had become placid and uncaring about family problems.
(19) By way of contrast to events earlier in the tour, where large crowds have turned out, the duke and duchess were greeted sedately by the islanders who brought out picnic chairs and sat placidly waiting on the grass verges at the side of the road leading from the airport to the tiny capital, Charlottetown.
(20) The great majority of the infants were very placid.