(1) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(2) In both strains the growth rates of rats fed LEAR and corn oils were similar; growth rates with HEAR oil diets were much lower than the other oils.
(3) The fractional and molar rates of LCAT were higher after sunflower and peanut oil diets and decreased significantly after LEAR oil and milk fat diets.
(4) Lear also listed 15 different types of aids or devices to which charges, or contributions from patients, might be applied.
(5) Many such pieces of equipment are never returned by patients once they have finished with them and so cannot be reused, increasing costs at a time when money is tight, Lear said.
(6) Like Goneril and Regan competing to offer false compliments to Lear, they covered the leader they had doomed with hypocritical praise.
(7) His choice of collaborators and repertory served the puritanical rigour that illuminated his productions there, as well as with Joint Stock and the National Theatre, from landmark new plays, such as Edward Bond’s Saved (1965) and Lear (1972), to revelatory versions of classics, including a 1963 production of The Recruiting Officer with Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith.
(8) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(9) His stage work included two memorable Shakespearean kings – Leontes in The Winter’s Tale at the National Theatre in 1988, and Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2011 – and one quasi-Shakespearean ruler: a future King Charles III in Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse fantasy about the succession to the throne of the current Prince of Wales.
(10) Anne-Marie Duff taking on one of the biggest roles in American playwriting, a long-awaited musical by Tori Amos and a gala night celebrating the theatre's history are all on the menu for the National Theatre's 50th anniversary year – not to mention the prospect of Sam Mendes returning to the stage to direct Simon Russell Beale in King Lear early in 2014.
(11) With many younger playwrights now asking how they can move out of the studio theatre and reclaim the larger stages, Lear - with its epic story and stark images - seemed to offer some pointers towards a way out of the narrowness of so much small-scale new writing.
(12) For that we can thank screenwriter Barrie Keefe (“sense of history... Londoner”), who in these years was making a series of runs at the King Lear legend – here and in his plays Black Lear and King Of England – and found a clear political, historical and social context in which to strip this cockney king of everything he has.
(13) I did one of Edmund's speeches from King Lear for Sir Laurence Olivier and Bill Gaskill.
(14) King Lear was the first he read and, he says, "it kind of changed my perspective on race, on the world, on everything".
(15) But he rose rapidly through the ranks to play Oberon in Peter Hall's 1962 Midsummer Night's Dream, the Antipholus of Ephesus in Clifford Williams's classic bare-boards Comedy of Errors in the same year, and Edmund in the international tour of Peter Brook's King Lear (1964).
(16) The former age in conformity to societal expectations, often displaying an inability to affect the outcome of events; the latter (e.g., Lear and Falstaff), deviating from these behavioral norms, dominate the action of their respective plays.
(17) As well as Saved, he staged Bond’s The Sea, Lear and Early Morning at the Royal Court.
(18) You could hear the howls of grief between the lines - yet he had denied himself, and us, a Lear.
(19) It comes out of the amateur rep tradition of actors thinking: "Well, I'm only 26, but I'll put on a beard and have a go at King Lear."
(20) King Lear, imprisoned at the end of the play with his daughter Cordelia, tells her that they will become “God’s spies”.
Tear
Definition:
(n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
(n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
(n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
(v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.
(v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
(v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
(v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
(v. t.) To move violently; to agitate.
(v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
(v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
(n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
Example Sentences:
(1) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(2) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(3) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
(4) Recently the presence of a coating inhibitory factor was described in human tears which can prevent the binding of proteins to a solid phase.
(5) The typical signs of muscle tears and neuromuscular diseases in relation to normal sonomorphology are discussed.
(6) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
(7) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
(8) In contrast, significant tear IgG increase was observed during the rejection phenomenon.
(9) At least one of these manipulative tests was positive in 79% of meniscal tears.
(10) Tests were undertaken to study resistance to tears in laser welded dental metal alloys.
(11) Death, helicopter crashes and tears: nurses' career-defining moments Read more Of course, we still continue to accept and treat patients as we always have.
(12) Even a long tear with a stable reduced position can be expected to show good healing.
(13) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
(14) According to Israeli media reports, the US statement had caused "senior officials in Jerusalem to tear out their hair".
(15) The patients usually had a history of recurrent hamstring "tears."
(16) Egged on by Israel, Trump has threatened to tear up Obama’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
(17) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
(18) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(19) The MRI scan is a highly accurate, noninvasive modality for documentation of meniscal pathology as well as cruciate ligament tears in the knee.
(20) Lateral ligament tear is often associated with anterior cruciate ligament tear.