(1) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
(2) Adjoining his office, in the green room where Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, Hollande settled into a lush dining chair, more elaborate than the rest around the meeting table.
(3) The tale of native American Pocahontas's love for an English captain in 17th-century Virginia and her journey to England, it made much of innocence versus colonial exploitation, contrasting the lush, wild vegetation of America with the manicured gardens of England.
(4) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
(5) Smaller Kalymnos, Kasos, Kastellorizo and Symi are less lush than their bigger companions but all have elegant harbours – a legacy of their trading past – and rocky interiors that offer good walking.
(6) And then, out of the distance rush the intricately detailed hordes, like lushly painted Games Worshop figures.
(7) From the summit, accessed via the Summit trail or a paved forest service road, visitors can marvel at the line of Cascade volcanoes to the east, the lush, green Willamette valley below and the Pacific Ocean to the west, making this one of the best places for views in the state.
(8) In Australia, the sudden flush of vegetation that followed the loss of large herbivores caused stacks of leaf litter to build up, which became the rainforests' pyre: fires (natural or manmade) soon transformed these lush places into dry forest and scrub .
(9) There was still snow in June this year in the Northern Velebit national park, which contrasts lush beech forest with more austere pine-spiked ridges, and here there is a proper day's hiking to be had, requiring detailed maps, sensible shoes and a chat with the ranger beforehand.
(10) Doubles from £84, B&B Le Gite d’Indaiatiba, near Paraty Le Gite díIndaiatiba, near Paraty Paraty has one of Brazil’s most astonishing settings, where rainforest-covered peaks spill down to bay after beautiful blue bay, so why not back off the historic centre a bit and make your way into the lush surroundings of the Serra do Bocaina mountains?
(11) Amazon shoppers searching for Lush products would instead be directed to similar products described as "lush".
(12) and MacFarlane's newest animated sitcom, The Cleveland Show , may wonder what has happened to their comic hero once they have seen him step out behind the microphone in his tuxedo to the accompaniment of Wilson's lush strings.
(13) From there it was on to Kentucky, which had a 14% poor roads rating and many well-tended arcs of asphalt swooping through lush, wooded hill country.
(14) The resort, one of the largest ever foreign investments in China, includes a 225-acre Magic Kingdom-style park with a castle surrounded by themed areas, with guests entering through a lush 11-acre garden.
(15) Samples collected from or near surface waters in a lush hardwood forest yielded four salmonellae serotypes from six culturally positive samples.
(16) Sangin's lush wheat fields and dense poppy groves soon became killing fields.
(17) Winning tip Wadi Bani Khalid, Oman You might not imagine the Middle East as a swimmer's paradise, but Wadi Bani Khalid in Oman's Sharqiyah region is a lush oasis.
(18) Henderson's acknowledged scientific hero was Jay L. Lush, with whom he studied during his Ph.D. program at Iowa State College and with whom he shared similar talents and the intuition that made both of them leaders in the field of animal breeding.
(19) Starting in a lush valley edged by high cliffs, it climbs a side valley to a rocky ridge.
(20) It was special, too, to have someone take beautiful pictures.” Those pictures promote an idyll that doesn’t seem to belong to this age, with both women wearing vintage dresses, carrying picnic baskets filled with passionfruit curd through a lush garden.
Lusk
Definition:
(a.) Lazy; slothful.
(n.) A lazy fellow; a lubber.
(v. i.) To be idle or unemployed.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Thursday, having spent most of the day fending off allegations relating to the SIS issue, Key told media: “I think there’s a real risk that a hacker, and people with a leftwing agenda, are trying to take an election off New Zealanders.” While Ede, Lusk and Collins have avoided talking to media, Slater, the son of a former National party president, has gone on the offensive.
(2) Days before the polls took place, the EU’s foreign minister, Federica Mogherini, said : “The upcoming elections cannot produce a credible result with legitimacy throughout the country.” “By saying the elections weren’t free and fair, [western governments] are actually saying the government is no longer legitimate by implication, which is very strong stuff in their terms,” said Gillian Lusk, associate editor of Africa Confidential .
(3) This table, developed by Lusk in 1924, was derived from biochemical and physical data that are now outdated.
(4) On the basis of the ratio of total caloric intake to resting energy expenditure (REE), the nonprotein respiratory quotient (npRQ), and, when appropriate, Lusk's table for analysis of the oxidation of mixtures of carbohydrate and fat, the patients could be categorized into three groups.
(5) Robert Lusk, director of the Natural Shoe Store, the UK distributors of Birkenstocks, talks like a man in need of shiatsu, or at least a few hundred extra boxes of sandals.
(6) Other published exchanges allegedly show Slater and his associate, political consultant Simon Lusk, discussing smear campaigns to help a client win a National candidate selection, the blackmail of a sitting MP (it never happened, the MP has since insisted) and the description of those forced from their homes after the Christchurch earthquake as “scum”.
(7) Something that doesn’t come across in the news coverage about Dirty Politics, and Cameron Slater, Jason Ede, Jordan Williams, Simon Lusk et al is just how fucking awful these people are.
(8) Lusk's bemusement at the sandals' reinvention is understandable, given their inauspiciously stolid beginnings.
(9) Referring to great scientists--Harvey, Boerhaave, Black, Priestley, Scheele, Lavoisier, Liebig, Pettenkofer, Rubner, Voit, Lusk, DuBois--the change in paradigm connected with the concepts of 'life', 'substrate intake' and 'body heat' and their underlying natural phenomena is outlined.
(10) "Birkenstocks are popular across the globe," Lusk adds, "but I think this kind of mass hysteria is a peculiarly British phenomenon.
(11) In conclusion a citation of the famous American physiologist Graham Lusk (1866-1932) is mentioned from the year 1906, who praised the scientific priority of the German medical research.
(12) Equivalent npRQ values in patients who were receiving amino acids, dextrose, and lipids were determined by using Lusk's table and the percentage of total caloric intake as fat.