(1) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
(2) The video was shot in three different locations across Moscow: a kitsch fort above the city’s Ismailovsky market; an abandoned and unheated Soviet-era palace of culture; and a disused jail.
(3) • 01323 411077, treasure-island.info ; children £5, adults £2.50, half price after 3pm Travis Elborough is author of Wish You Were Here: England on Sea Handpainted signs in Norfolk by Teena Vallerine, blogger on kitsch All along the Norfolk coast – from Hunstanton through Wells and Cromer, all the way around to Great Yarmouth – there are seaside towns that bring out the child in me.
(4) Coca-Cola, cactus and flight safety manual illustrations form the basis of the kitsch prints.
(5) Dozens of trams, lit up as trains, planes and cruise ships, rattle underneath miles of garish light bulbs, dozens of arcades playing every kitsch anthem there has ever been, from Agadoo to the Nolans, while families in daft hats eat candy in the shape of giant penises.
(6) But the film soon plummets into well-meaning kitsch, not least because of Béjo's excruciatingly gauche performance.
(7) The experience of kitsch can be identified when the spectator feels coerced by exaggerated, unconvincing theatrical devices, and fails to experience genuine empathy with the characters in a play.
(8) • blackpoolpier.co.uk Wayne Hemingway runs Hemingway Design and the Vintage at Goodwood festival ( vintageatgoodwood.com , 13-15 August) Treasure Island park, Eastbourne, Sussex by Travis Elborough, author As a nation whose empire was forged by the dubious activities of maritime privateers, it is not so surprising the British continue to find the pirate an object of romantic if kitsch fascination, commemorated in pub names, restaurants, fairground rides and theme parks in seaside towns around the country.
(9) Photograph: Alamy Film buffs should love the kitsch Hollywood stylings of this hotel, which is awash with gilded statues, columns, marble and chandeliers.
(10) The state-run Beijing News said the Modern College of North-west University, located in Xi’an, had strung up banners around the campus reading “Strive to be outstanding sons and daughters of China , oppose kitsch western holidays” and “Resist the expansion of western culture”.
(11) Turn to other online shops Ebay celebrated 15 years of activity in the UK in 2014, when it sold 3bn items – not all of them kitsch memorabilia.
(12) Later, I returned, every school holiday, from the dark satanic mills of Blackburn to the seaside kitsch that adorned my nan's bungalow, a stone's throw from the promenade, funfairs and piers.
(13) For south-west ambience without the kitsch, seek out the Hermosa Inn and its Last Drop cocktail bar for drinks with a Sonoran desert twist.
(14) But then you’re rudely awaken out of your kitsch reverie by remembering quite what will be left, and at what cost it all came.
(15) A university in north-western China has banned Christmas , calling it a “kitsch” foreign celebration unbefitting of the country’s own traditions and making its students watch propaganda films instead, state media said on Thursday.
(16) Rogers's architecture has its absurdities, but will be remembered when Terry's name appears only in footnotes appearing in books about kitsch.
(17) Kitsch beachcomber paintings adorn the walls; bartenders in Hawaiian shirts serve cocktails in conch shells.
(18) A Guardian colleague has already expressed the hope , probably vainly, that the art work will not be “a dire chunk of conservative kitsch”, but something abstract, contemporary.
(19) Atmosphere is everything at the Dark Horse, where the decor approaches kitsch, then veers smoothly into oddball creativity.
(20) • visitblackpool.com Vintage events , Margate, Kent Margate is a riot of kitsch and somewhat saucy seaside shenanigans.
Medium
Definition:
(n.) That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.
(n.) See Mean.
(n.) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
(n.) A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and transmitted.
(n.) An average.
(n.) A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper.
(n.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application.
(a.) Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synthesis of choline esterase on the medium with acetylcholine at a concentration of 1% was increased more than twofold upon addition of glucose at a concentration of 0.1%.
(2) Brain and ganglia of embryonic Periplaneta americana were grown for 2 to 3 weeks in a chemically defined medium.
(3) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(4) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(5) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(6) The penetration of (22)Na was not prevented by the presence of metabolic inhibitors or by 500 mm NaCl in the suspending medium.
(7) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(8) Systolic blood pressure dropped following clonidine, showing a significantly greater drop for the medium and high doses than for the low dose.
(9) No significant fatty acid binding by proteins was detected in S. cerevisiae, even when grown on a fatty acid-rich medium, thus indicating that such proteins are not essential to fatty acid metabolism.
(10) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(11) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(12) Resistant mutants can be isolated only at concentrations of 1 M allylalcohol in the medium.
(13) The medium time of admission (8.98 vs 9.5 days) and mortality rate (6.3% vs 7.1%) did not change.
(14) In fact, the addition of conditioned medium obtained by 48 hr preincubation of isolated monocytes with 10% PF-382 supernatant (M-CM2) or the concomitant addition of supernatant from PF-382 cells (PF-382-CM) and from unstimulated monocytes (M-CM1) are capable of fully replacing the presence of monocytes in the BFU-E assay.
(15) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.
(16) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
(17) Finally, it could be observed that elevated osmotic pressures reduced the lysis of isolated secretory granules when bicarbonate ions were present in the incubation medium.
(18) The study of cellular cyclic AMP level in response to extracellular adenosine stimulation in dividing cells and quiescent cells showed that cells in defined medium had a lower extent of response to adenosine compared to cells cultured in serum-containing medium.
(19) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(20) A technique, using Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane filters as a containing medium for very small volumes of ionic standard solutions, to produce homogeneous ice standards is described.