(1) He was called "the French Bogart", "the new Jean Gabin", and in 1962 co-starred with Gabin in Un Singe en hiver as a young alcoholic forming a dangerous friendship with an elderly drunk.
(2) Essential DVDs Breathless, Le Doulos, Un Singe en hiver, Léon Morin, prêtre, Pierrot le fou, Mississippi Mermaid, Borsalino, Stavisky • Next: Kim Novak
Hover
Definition:
(n.) A cover; a shelter; a protection.
(v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something.
(v. i.) To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
Example Sentences:
(1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(2) Greece's desperate plight hovers over the meeting, although formally there is no mention of Greece on the agenda or in the statements drafted for the meeting.
(3) So it was that Mané broke along the right and turned over a dangerous ball that needed Matteo Darmian’s intervention as Shane Long hovered.
(4) I was sitting in the room, reading all the negativity and death threats, and by now the helium balloons were half-full, hovering like jellyfish.
(5) Even if everyone in the world limited their fish consumption to once a week (I don’t eat other kinds of meat), the oceans would still be hovering on depletion.
(6) Military helicopters hovered overhead as supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed in the streets below.
(7) Horses grazing singly or in groups were aggressively defended by hovering males.
(8) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(9) In his dreamlike view of the world, bits of buildings are liberated to take on their own lives and attempt unexpected feats: floors can shift and windows can hover – and now, it seems, planes can spurt out shimmering aluminium vapour trails.
(10) They all hover around a standard Australian size 8-10, and all have a similar svelte, leggy look.
(11) Bill Clinton hovering just off screen in latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails Read more Platte River took over the device in June 2013, about four months after Clinton left the State Department, and turned it over to the FBI last month, the newspaper reported.
(12) Its growth has slowed in recent days and its size now hovers around 241,000 hectares.
(13) · In the early 1990s, television news programmes featured clips of advanced TM practitioners, known as yogic flyers, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position.
(14) Simmons was struck by the cravat, but also by a third man hovering in the doorway during viewings.
(15) The remark evoked a defensive response from those wedded to the ephemeral virtues of the "confidence fairy" – and who are concerned to keep her benevolent figure hovering above Britain's severely weakened economy.
(16) The potential for a trade war is hovering in the background as Congress and the Republicans agitate over what they regard as underhand tactics by Beijing.
(17) With it would come “the Mother of Planes, which would hover over space for up to a year and then swoop down to rescue righteous black Muslims from the great white wasteland”.
(18) A much bigger role for the market is not a recipe for a bigger or stronger society, because in practice businesses – especially the big US corporations that are hovering over the NHS – are accountable to no one but their shareholders and much more interested in their financial bottom line than social justice or equality.
(19) This turn may be hampered by drag on the abdomen during fast forward flight and would be most useful at low speeds or during hovering.
(20) Sarkozy, who is hovering in the wings threatening a political comeback, said as much last week.