(n.) Intellect; understanding; talent; -- used humorously.
Example Sentences:
(1) He offered up a further example of his lack of economic nous: his failure to notice that the Sun had not paid him for his column for 18 months.
(2) Up the hill, the prince was trying out his schoolboy French – " C'est un honneur pour nous d'être parmi vous … merci votre patience avec mon accent " – and was cheered for doing so.
(3) Steven Gerrard has neither the discipline or the tactical nous to play as a defensive midfielder, they said; and yet here he is having one of the best seasons of his career, inspiring all around him.
(4) They were able to present him with a thriving youth system, a new state-of-the-art training ground, boardroom nous, a strong recruitment team and the basis of a good squad.
(5) Nous sommes tous Français (We are all French).” By contrast, Hollande said that Trump’s excesses “make you want to retch” .
(6) Housing associations’ commercial nous and social entrepreneurship has delivered billions of pounds worth of housing.
(7) The favoured chant of the day is " On est chez nous! "
(8) We’ve got to look to kick on next season.” One definite arrival is the Belgian forward Divock Origi but, aged 20 and having competed in only two full seasons for Lille, he is another who cannot be asked to add nous immediately.
(9) It seemed only a matter of time before the close control and deft passing of the Spain forward set up a colleague with a scoring opportunity, yet in the absence of Agüero and Edin Dzeko City seemed to lack anyone with the nous to find the space Silva was looking to exploit.
(10) She revels in her naivete, as though by admitting her lack of City nous she is proving she is on the side of the people in the great battle between the pinstripes and the proles.
(11) By contrast, Rosneft is seen as bureaucratic, inefficient and lacking commercial nous.
(12) Growing up in Pretoria, the son of a Canadian mother and South African father, he taught himself coding and software, mixing geek talent with business nous: he designed and sold a video game, Blastar, by the age of 12.
(13) He was widely regarded as having the right experience, deft touch and nous to navigate the shoals and shifting currents of continental politics that would buffet the British ship of state as it left its European berth.
(14) The film kind of dupes us into finding Elle every bit as silly and superficial as her peers do, before revealing her whip-smart legal nous and steely sense of integrity (feminist).
(15) The Villa manager, who admitted Liverpool had "too much nous and experience for us", felt his side were "sloppy" in the second half, when Guzan made flying saves to repel efforts from Glen Johnson and Jonjo Shelvey and Suárez hit the woodwork twice.
(16) She has smart commercial nous but has also overseen Sky improve its public service credentials.
(17) Mr Allardyce reportedly impressed the FA with his sophisticated take on sport psychology and has a tactical nous sure to surprise, especially following Roy Hodgson.
(18) Zuma has regained it but now he will need the tactical nous to deal with the fallout," he said.
(19) Sayida Ounissi (@SaidaOunissi) Nous n'avons pas peur.
(20) Jenna Lyon at the J.Crew headquarters in New York Photograph: Danielle Levitt J Crew's USP is fashion nous mixed with accessibility – a relatively basic flowered T-shirt with high-waisted denim shorts, or a single-breasted navy blue blazer worn cape-style.
Sous
Definition:
(pl. ) of Sou
(n.) Alt. of Souse
Example Sentences:
(1) The catalyst was a series of confrontations between immigrant youth and the police in the Parisian banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois .
(2) The two teenagers were electrocuted while hiding in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, in October 2005.
(3) Vulnerable people such as the elderly and hospital patients are increasingly likely to consume food produced by new systems such as 'cook-chill' and 'cuisson sous vide'.
(4) Along the main water courses in the sparsely populated areas of the Sous-Préfecture of Tcholliré, the vectors of onchocerciasis were mainly Simulium damnosum s. str.
(5) Ever since the riots in Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005, all matches with North African teams had become potential triggers for trouble in Paris.
(6) In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which has seen some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt-out vehicles and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 'Yes to dialogue'.
(7) Their deaths by electrocution triggered riots on the boys' run-down estates in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, which soon spread across France.
(8) Nutritionists and food scientists have concerns about the food safety of sous vide products and the possible increase in food borne illnesses.
(9) The "Iles sous le Vent" are well staffed and well equipped, but other islands are under privileged.
(10) Of the sausage samples examined, 38% of the fresh pork sausage, 9% of the smoked pork sausage, and 1 sample (souse) of 16 samples of miscellaneous sausage products were contaminated.
(11) Yesterday the right-wing mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois, Gérard Gaudron, led a silent march of 600 residents between the destroyed fire station and the burnt-out pensioners' day centre in Mille-Mille.
(12) The challenge however is not to reshape Paris, but rather to extend its inherent beauty to its outskirts, les banlieues – a web of small villages, some terribly grand and chic (Neuilly, Versailles, Saint Mandé, Vincennes, Saint Germain-en-Laye), others modest and provincial-looking (Montreuil, Pantin, Malakoff, Montrouge, Saint Gervais) and others still, socially ravaged and architecturally dehumanised (La Courneuve, Clichy-sous-bois).
(13) It comes after an investigation by Channel 4 News estimated last month that more than 11,000 positions currently advertised on the government's Universal Jobmatch website may not actually exist, ranging from vacancies for sous chefs to dry-cleaners.
(14) "Most of the kids in this neighbourhood are the fourth generation of their family in France," said Mohamed Mechmeche, 44, a youth worker in Clichy-sous-Bois who after the riots founded the community pressure group Aclefeu.
(15) Even if they did, the warnings did not deter Bouna Traore, 15, and Ziad Benna, 17, from going into the electricity substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
(16) Activists and youth workers in Clichy-sous-Bois had said that if the case did not go to trial it would be a message that poor families on run-down estates did not deserve justice in France.
(17) While unemployment, poor housing, daily discrimination and racism have run local people into the ground in the poorest parts of Clichy-sous-Bois, it is the daily conflict with police that remains a tinderbox.
(18) It was here in Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005 that the deaths of two boys who had been running from police were the catalyst for the worst riots in modern French history.
(19) That same night, 15 cars were torched in Clichy-sous-Bois, a classic French banlieue of rundown postwar high-rises that are home to 30,000 people, overwhelmingly second and third-generation immigrants whose parents arrived in France as cheap migrant labour from north Africa.
(20) Photograph: Annabel Moeller Heston Shops selling blowtorches, sous-vides and gold leaf should be ready for a last-minute rush as Britain’s peculiar-fusion chef Heston Blumenthal makes his debut as a Radio 2 DJ and gives festive cooking tips.