(1) But yes, the thing about Brooke is that she’s the classic American hustler,” she says.
(2) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
(3) Little documented, the scene was caught by Colin MacInnes in his 1957 novel City of Spades, whose hero is a West African hustler called Johnny Fortune.
(4) Now, after two years of infamy which battered his reputation and his company – he has stepped down as CEO of AngelHack and is being sued by his co-founder over other disputes – Gopman, a self-described hustler, seeks redemption.
(5) Peta is as guilty of doing so as Hustler magazine, which famously put a picture of a woman being pushed head-first through a meat grinder to make hamburger in the 1970s, one album cover shortly afterwards displayed a woman's naked, clingfilm-wrapped body sectioned off like cuts of meat in a butchers shop.
(6) It is no accident that so many of Twain's characters are hucksters and hustlers, or that deception and opportunism are abiding themes in his writing.
(7) In a city of hustlers, tricksters, and go-getters, where the right dose of swag and gumption gets you farther than a college degree can, Furo is a bumbling non-entity.
(8) He'd been a chess hustler: he used to beat everybody when he was 12, grown men in the parks of Manhattan.
(9) It was led by the hustlers and crazies, outsiders even amongst gays, who had nothing to lose.” In fact, national monument status gives protection from destruction and development to “ objects of historic or scientific interest ”.
(10) In Petare, a giant slum overlooking Caracas from the east, hustlers known as buhoneros sell their goods at a busy intersection.
(11) Like every appletini-swigging SATC devotee who swore watching Carrie or Samantha was like seeing themselves, the Entourage audience gravitated quickly to Vince's effortless starpower, to E's everyman, to Turtle's dogged hustler and to Drama's … OK, only a member of the Screen Actors Guild could truly empathise with the relentless humiliation of Johnny Drama, but it was impossible not to celebrate his few small instances of victory.
(12) When Larry Flint published cartoons in Hustler magazine depicting Andrea in a sexually explicit way, she sued the publisher, but lost.
(13) Alongside the mildewed copies of Oui , Hustler and Playboy , were stacks of Film Quarterly whose pages were charged with erotica, drama, and – best of all – a lot of European men .
(14) On the seniors circuit, he became known as a hustler – challenging tough opponents to tennis matches where he would handicap himself in an entertaining way, playing with a frying pan, for instance.
(15) An autobiography of his teenage years, it comprised more raw images of drug use and adolescent sex, as well as portraits of young hustlers working Times Square in New York, with a little of the edginess leavened by family snapshots and portraits.
(16) So naturally Dan Snyder has spun up the victimization engines and tried to run them with the smooth purr of the Fox News machine – where honest, hard-working real American traditions are constantly assailed by incredibly powerful opportunistic race hustlers and PC police, like Native Americans.
(17) In a seventeen-month field study thirty-three male were interviewed and tentatively classified into four categories: call-boys, street prostitutes, bar hustlers, and kept boys.
(18) And once that happens, the source of all this rage naturally springs not from the actions of the police but an opportunistic claque of Fox and the right’s favorite bêtes noire: the “race hustlers”.
(19) The key distinction is between the attention-hustlers – the pure troll howlers who play this grotesque game for its own sake and their own – and the true believers.
(20) Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers.
Shark
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
(v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper.
(v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark.
(v. t.) To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly.
(v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
(v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(2) I had loan sharks turning up at the training ground when I was at Ipswich [2011-13].
(3) Although small amounts of AFP are synthesized by sharks in the liver, the greatest site of synthesis is actually the stomach, with smaller amounts synthesized in the intestinal mucosa; no synthesis was observed in the shark yolk sac.
(4) The findings can be summarized as follows: (1) The effective concentration of SDS for termination of shark tonic immobility (an immediate and fast response) was close to its critical micellar concentration in sea water (70 microM).
(5) Little, if anything, is known about shark litter sizes, making it very difficult to conserve this species.
(6) Normal shark plasma contains numerous natural antibodies reactive with a variety of antigens, including the target employed.
(7) 5) The SC-binding site is present on high molecular weight immunoglobulin in species as primitive as the nurse shark.
(8) Microfinance has clearly deviated from its original goal , it’s given rise to “its own breed of loan sharks,” as Yunus says.
(9) Sequence identities of sea turtle GH to other species of GH are 89% with chicken GH, 79% with rat GH, 68% with blue shark GH, 58% with eel GH, 59% with human GH, and 40% with a teleostean GH such as chum salmon.
(10) In contrast to dogfish sharks, stringrays with high spinal transections do not locomote.
(11) The spiracular organ is a tube (skate) or pouch (shark) with a single pore opening into the spiracle.
(12) Statistical tests were carried out on the results of chemical analysis for total mercury concentrations of replicate samples of muscle tissue of school shark Galeorhinus australis (Macleay) and gummy shark Mustelus antarcticus Guenther from six independent analytical laboratories.
(13) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
(14) That would eliminate a shark because they have cartilage, and on that basis it was likely one of the billfish."
(15) The perceived immunity of sharks to cancer has led to their slaughter to harvest the allegedly curative cartilage ; not only is this no good for sharks, it's no good for humans either.
(16) The shark GH isolated from pituitary glands by U. J. Lewis, R. N. P. Singh, B. K. Seavey, R. Lasker, and G. E. Pickford (1972, Fish.
(17) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
(18) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
(19) The N-terminal 19 amino-acid residues of IP-1 of trout CNS- and P0 of frog PNS myelin were sequenced and proved to be homologous on one hand with the P0 analogue of CNS of the shark, a cartilage fish, and on the other hand with P0 protein of PNS of birds and mammals.
(20) Labour's competition and consumer affairs spokeswoman, Stella Creasy, has been given special responsibility to lead a campaign against abuses by legal loan sharks, Miliband said.