(1) (3) A 2006 Bobcat movie in which the lead ... pampers her pooch.
(2) A small group of us, including a student recovering from exams, a woman with a broken heart and a pair that had stayed at Zamzam before and vowed to return, gathered for some pre-departure pampering.
(3) When it comes to tuition fees, do not believe the voices who tell us that the average Briton thinks students are a pampered lot who should get with the government's plans and count themselves lucky.
(4) There would be no capitulation, no surrender, no private jet into pampered exile.
(5) It seemed a fairytale romance, ideal fodder for the glossy fan magazines, as both were young, attractive, rich and pampered.
(6) Jeremy Corbyn is criticised in much of the media for questioning a system that engorges a tiny minority of wealthy executives while buying the acquiescence of millions through a pampered existence of material excess.
(7) Social maladjustment in the child was significantly related to maternal guilt (P less than 0.05) and pampering (P less than 0.02).
(8) The catch is that you have to fail, or rather pass, a breathalyser test to be allowed in – to make sure that you still have alcohol in your system, that you’re properly hung over and not a healthy type who just fancies some pampering.
(9) And all of it is completely wasted on the very people who can afford it; the ones who book into them not out of greed or even a tinge of hunger, but because they like the way the lighting flatters their complexion and the toiletries in the bogs make them smell like one of Dita Von Teese's freshly pampered armpits.
(10) The privately owned chain is still a relative minnow, controlling just 5.8% of all grocery sales in the UK, but only Pampers nappies are bigger sellers than its Mamia brand, and 8% of our fresh fruit and veg, and over a fifth of all premium steaks, are bought in Aldi stores.
(11) Decca went from being a pampered, uneducated aristocratic child to a fierce civil rights campaigner in the US; Diana remained unapologetically devoted to Mosley to the day he died; Nancy lived a somewhat lonely life in Paris, writing novels.
(12) But the arms race to provide ever greater pampering, cuisine and luxury threatens to endanger their renaissance.
(13) Yes, there are many reasons why the apex of society is such a stitch-up for the pampered and privileged, but the internship filter is certainly one of them.
(14) The pampered plutocracy Last year, the Institute for Fiscal Studies looked at an ever-worsening financial crisis, which will see the amount of public debt owed per person rise from its 2010 level of £15,000 to £23,000 in 2017.
(15) He, too, has a grown-up child – an arrogant and pampered one.
(16) So it's off to LA for a weekend of "luxury pampering" while Bullard sets about Emily's house with his team of long-suffering design lackeys.
(17) Perhaps it's because Allen is, these days, a pampered celebrity – "everything is done for you by minions," he says of the film-making process – that celebrity is the one subject on which To Rome With Love feels authentic and personal.
(18) But a systematic policy of pampering the wealthy, be they domestic or foreign, allied to a callous disregard of the interest of our own young, has led to the economic polarisation we see today.
(19) It was an enormous pleasure to be so pampered despite our age.
(20) Twitter has taken some heat for this, creating 1,600 millionaires since its IPO in November 2013, adding to the perception of a pampered tech elite detached from the soul of the city.
Pandering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pander
Example Sentences:
(1) "They are soul-less creatures pandering to the NRA ."
(2) While some might deride the deliberate mainstream branding and design, saying it panders to convention, this is exactly what Hannah feels her community needs.
(3) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
(4) It displayed his immense talent for impressions, had simple but hilarious observations and was able to appeal to a diverse audience without pandering or carpet N-bombing as a punchline.
(5) But Baptiste never seems like he’s polemicising, still less that he’s pandering to the expectations of a mostly white audience.
(6) The film thus panders to the tendency of Germans to see themselves as victims of Nazism and war rather than perpetrators.
(7) It’s amazing to see a new generation of activists, who understand that we can no longer compartmentalise issues or pander to governments or industry to create the change we need.
(8) The Institute of Directors, meanwhile, said it was “astonished by the home secretary’s irresponsible rhetoric” and accused her of pandering to anti-immigration sentiment and putting internal party politics ahead of the interests of the country.
(9) Such pandering was a mistake because they would never be satisfied until Britain left the EU, McFadden argued.
(10) In Bristol he is expected to attack politicians who "pander to prejudice or xenophobia".
(11) As the neck of the latebra approaches the blastoderm, it flares out to become the nucleus of Pander.
(12) The Canadian government, which had lobbied hard for the project, said it was disappointed, and the oil industry accused Obama of pandering to his base.
(13) He had absolute control of a very rowdy crowd without pandering to them at all, and was so delightfully silly that it actually turned them into a pleasant bunch of people.
(14) Itʼs quite a feat when you think about it, to cast oneself as a great feminist crusader while you perfect the art of self objectification and then go on to spend your entire career pandering to the male gaze.
(15) Instead, this is empty rhetoric from a weak prime minister who is pandering to the backbenchers that forced out Andrew Mitchell."
(16) Consequently, the candidates and their remarks are seen as pandering to black voters.
(17) So everyone – from Cochran to McDaniel to the "Democrat" Childers – panders to those voters.
(18) Keita has promised to continue along these lines, but his campaign hinged on national honour and dignity, pandering to public opinion in the south openly hostile to any understanding with the forces that plunged Mali into chaos.
(19) She will, for example, remind the others if they play fast and loose on the immigration debate, that conceding ground to half truths and lies ultimately panders to prejudice.
(20) Why media-bashing should be such a popular pastime among key Republicans is relatively easily explained by reference to opinion surveys which suggest that the politicians are merely pandering to the prejudices of rightwing voters.