(1) And lest there be any remaining doubt, a forensic expert on maggots – such people do exist – testified that the theory of "semen-destroying maggots" was balderdash.
(2) Very fresh.” But he’s much more excited about another, hidden ingredient: fat extracted from the larvae of black soldier flies (or, to put it less delicately, maggot fat).
(3) We describe the indications for use, materials and methods for the rearing of sterile larvae, the modes of action, and the complications of maggot debridement.
(4) The catch is that the wine has been spiked with an extinguished cigarette, bogies, phlegm, piss and maggots; Ryle tackles it with vigour.
(5) Squeaky-clean Leona Lewis has covered Trent Reznor's hara-kiri-themed treatise Hurt, Beyoncé pre-empted Ke$ha on last year's Rather Die Young, and the Lynchian pretend-we're-dead poise of Lana "Born To Die" Del Rey couldn't be more cadaver chic if she started shaking with rigor mortis, maggots spilling from her eyeballs.
(6) Ed played [Funkadelic's] Maggot Brain ; we're excited about the new Four Tet single.
(7) In this study, maggots, living material, are proposed as a new medium of investigation in forensic medicine.
(8) The case reports deal with 2 cases in which changes due to damage by maggots primarily gave the impression of gunshot-wounds.
(9) A sk Becky Hope if she ever feels shocked by what she sees in her work in child protection – the welts on backs, broken limbs, the maggots in cots – and she seems nonplussed.
(10) A case is described of a 79-year-old man in whom a gangrenous toe was invaded by maggots of the flesh fly Parasarcophaga argyrostoma.
(11) Conservative management by packing the nose with a chloroform and turpentine (1:4) mixture followed by manual removal of the dead maggots is an effective method.
(12) A cuterebrid maggot generally causes a single furuncular nodule.
(13) To investigate the relationship between immature (maggot) house flies, Musca domestica, and bacteria, we compared the development of sterile first-instar maggots in each of 10 pure blood agar cultures of bacteria with growth on sterile blood agar (negative control) and on standard house fly rearing medium (positive control).
(14) Female parasitoid flies of the genus Ormia must find a specific cricket host on which to deposit their parasitic maggots.
(15) The man handed me a sachet of yeasty smelling flakes and I sprinkled it over the ignorant maggots.
(16) What, after all, do a majority of votes matter, when your opponent has described you to history as a "mangy maggot", " the old desiccated coconut ", "araldited to the seat" and a "dead carcass, swinging in the breeze"?
(17) However, when the posterior end of the larva was recovered from the unsectioned portion of the appendix, it was identified as a maggot of the genus Sarcophaga.
(18) Over the course of it the prosecution tried to explain away the lack of any evidence of sexual intercourse or rape on Crystal's body by speculating that "semen-destroying maggots" had been at work.
(19) In each case, migration of the maggot through the subretinal space produced widespread ophthalmoscopic and fluorescein angiographic changes that are believed to be pathognomonic of subretinal ophthalmomyiasis.
(20) In special conditions, the damage by maggots can take on the appearance of bullet holes.
Whimsy
Definition:
(n.) A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit.
(n.) A whim.
(n.) A whimsey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Josie Long Watching Josie Long evolve from purveyor of childlike whimsy to political agitator has been one of the pleasures of the last few festivals.
(2) Irrespective of which will win, four of them can be categorised, as austere arthouse ( Amour ), the higher whimsy ( Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Life of Pi ), and customary US family angst ( Silver Linings Playbook ).
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Reporter, on the other hand, calls it "a fugacious bit of whimsy that can only be judged minor Woody Allen".
(4) Having to work with real life events keeps him from the shark-jumping flights of whimsy he employs elsewhere in his oeuvre.
(5) Each floor has been shaped by a different team of designers - Cibic and Partners, Stanton Williams, Eldridge Smerin and Future Systems - adding a touch of near-gravity here, whimsy there and pure theatre elsewhere.
(6) "It's very important to hold on to our whimsy," he says when I ask him about it.
(7) However, Keating's highly contrived plots and acute sense of whimsy failed to find favour in the US.
(8) Whenever his writing threatens to descend into the period's standard responses of disdain or whimsy, his ear catches the unique accent of an ordinary voice and elevates it to the dignity of print.
(9) But the narrative skips along, lightened by jokes and whimsies.
(10) Under the new name Mumford & Sons (a bit of nu-folk whimsy: no blood relations here), their earliest gigs, remembers Lovett, "were awful.
(11) Alice has all the makings of a long-term classic: a bold, funny and mercifully whimsy-free take on Lewis Carroll, accompanied by the fizzing musical panache of Joby Talbot’s score.
(12) At the same time, he largely dispensed with his breathless, gossamer sentences, which often teetered on the brink of preciousness and whimsy, and ushered in a style that was much leaner and more sinewy: "Dick!
(13) Her father was a country doctor who had seen his share of death and who liked to say there were only three subjects for art: sex, death and whimsy.
(14) The Edwardian classic by Lucy Maud Montgomery about a feisty, freckled orphan girl sent to live on the island unsurprisingly features heavily in PEI's tourist industry promotions, such that some shops resort to having Anne-free zones to lure visitors wearied of the whimsy.
(15) Amelie The Berkeley Repertory Theatre trades northern California cool for Montmartre whimsy when it offers this musical, adapted from the Jean-Pierre Jeunet film.
(16) When in the mid- 1930s he went to Mousehole, the Cornish fishing village, to pursue primitive realism, it was because "I could see in it Rousseau, Modigliani, Bonnard and Matisse – these painters had more meaning for me than the whimsy of Paul Klee" (Dylan Thomas liked Klee).
(17) For all the lovers of his whimsy, there are equally ardent critics.
(18) (Second place in that poll are the Dresden Dolls, but I guess MLB wasn't big on pretentious open letters and forced whimsy.)
(19) I caught my breath and took a seat, giving up on any whimsy about first class.
(20) Industry insiders I talked to thought the next generation of comics would bring in a new era of whimsy and mild observation.