(n.) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel.
Example Sentences:
(1) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
(2) The Jacob-Creutzfeldt group had a less schematic lesion pattern, without involvement of limbic areas.
(3) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
(4) He said ANC lawyers would go to court to force the Goodman gallery in Johannesburg to remove a painting of the president, Jacob Zuma, from the exhibition and from its website .
(5) Experiments were performed in two independent laboratories, each using their own meal preparations which were exactly similar in composition to the meals described by Herbert and Jacob (J.
(6) He also established himself as a regular fixture on BBC TV's Top of the Pops, having been appointed as one of the original four presenters in 1964, alongside Jacobs, Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile.
(7) To me, now, President Jacob Zuma is a boy because he is an uncircumcised Zulu."
(8) "The opposition will try to delay [elections] until unspecified political reforms are carried out," said Thailand analyst Jacob Hamstra of the Economist Intelligence Unit.
(9) This mRNA has been subsequently identified as coding for a ribosomal protein (r-protein) [Kay, M., & Jacobs-Lorena, M. (1985) Mol.
(10) It’s bigoted, racist rhetoric.” “This is an urban legend that has been going on for 14 years,” said Ryan Jacobs, a city hall spokesman.
(11) Rodney Dangerfield was born Jacob Cohen in Babylon, New York.
(12) Your regular guides throughout this tournament are sadly indisposed – Jacob Steinberg getting his giant ball signed down in SW19 and Paul Doyle who has it in his contract that he never works when Mumford & Sons are playing live.
(13) But Jacobs says he would not be surprised if some schools in Bristol have to use their own money "to ensure that the experience of a school lunchtime, the social aspect of it, is supervised adequately".
(14) Quick outs • Random subplot of the week: Peyton Manning throwing Denver’s first touchdown to Jacob Tamme, a man who rarely gets much attention in that high-powered Broncos offense, but who has been riding to every home game with the quarterback, plus receiver Eric Decker, for the last two years .
(15) When applied to a series of 14 cases in whom pancreatitis was first diagnosed at necropsy, the index devised by Jacobs et al was found to be the most useful, because in nine of these cases eight or more of the variables required were available for assessment from the case records.
(16) In this article, Chaim Jacob attempts to reconcile these apparently contradictory studies.
(17) You wish, you wish, you wish you were in Cavendish…” Jacob Bentley, news editor at the Nottingham student paper, Impact, which first published the video , says: “The bad thing is that it doesn’t shock me.
(18) New Zealand: Stephen Fleming (captain), Craig McMillan, Nathan Astle, Scott Styris, Chris Cairns, Brendon McCullum, Jacob Oram, Chris Harris, Daniel Vettori, Shane Bond, Daryl Tuffey.
(19) "Mr Jacob you have won the Nigerian lottery," says Simon McMahon.
(20) Jacobs, like both the other male undercover officers exposed by the Guardian, has been accused of having an affair while infiltrating a group.
Jacobean
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Jacobian
Example Sentences:
(1) "That'll knock some sense into all those socialists and Muslims – send them a big old British Jacobean book and see how they like that!"
(2) Antony and Cleopatra is in many ways a reflection of Jacobean court extravagance and decadence.
(3) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
(4) The intimate and atmospheric theatre will offer a glimpse of how audiences originally experienced the bloodthirsty Jacobean tragedy when it was first performed by the King's Men – Shakepeare's own company.
(5) At the moment, however, the six tapestries are on show at Temple Newsam House in Yorkshire, a Tudor-Jacobean mansion owned by Leeds city council, one and a half miles from the nearest train station and accessible by bus only in the summer months.
(6) Might we take a tremendous leap now from the Jacobeans to Nurse Jackie ?
(7) One day there will be a giant respiratory multinational that will own all new lungs For all I know, there’s a cabal of trillionaires sitting in a Jacobean library somewhere discussing how they might trade futures in trading futures.
(8) And Doran has explored the outer reaches of the Elizabeth-Jacobean repertoire and, in his current production of David Edgar's Written on the Heart , which transfers to the Duchess theatre, London, in April, proved that he can work with living writers.
(9) The NPG considers the self-portrait one of the world's finest and while Van Dyck may have been Flemish he was very much the leading court painter in England and had an enormous impact on British portraiture by moving it away from the stiff formality of Tudor and Jacobean painting.
(10) In 1999 Robert and Nicky Wilson took on a fading Jacobean manor house between Edinburgh and the Pentland Hills.
(11) Bowles's increasing reputation as a composer led to lucrative work on Broadway and he would go on to compose the music for a number of Broadway productions, including Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine; the stage version of South Pacific; Jacobowsky and the Colonel, directed by Elia Kazan; and John Ford's Jacobean tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
(12) It’s an architectural mix-up of Elizabethan, Jacobean and William & Mary.
(13) "He decisively turned it away from the stiff formal approach of Tudor and Jacobean painting developing a distinctive fluid, painterly style that was to dominate portraiture well into the 20th century," Nairne said.
(14) That the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras were as much about the vitality and wildness of the Boar's Head (Falstaff's den of booze and wit and broken hearts) as they were about the decorum and intrigues of the court.
(15) For many observers, the V for Vendetta mask has nothing to do with a Jacobean conspirator or a modern comic-book slash movie.
(16) The Wanamaker, and its matching dark Jacobean drama, is the place for intimate movements that can pick up on the sexual connections of dance – fingers that briefly touch, bodies that shadow each other, steps that evade and check – a rare chance for a sentence spoken between otherwise segregated sexes wearing heavy clothes.
(17) It was like a great Jacobean, Shakespearian or Greek Tragedy.
(18) I steer us away from Malfi and she is too obliging to complain, although the hour might easily have vanished with Jacobean drama as our only theme.
(19) No other painter had such a dramatic impact on British portraiture, helping turn it away from the stiff formal approach of Tudor and Jacobean painting.
(20) I am reminded of this whenever I visit any of the Jacobean and Georgian-era great houses that are dotted around Barbados .