(1) This new Batman was considered by fans and comic-book aficionados to be the real deal and a long overdue riposte to the infamously camp 1960s Batman TV series, starring a paunchy Adam West as the caped crusader.
(2) Saturday saw Lybke, hungover but still in paunchy Teutonic demigod mode, glad-handing the crowd who were eddying through his gallery.
(3) Paradise Lost , a film starring Benicio del Toro as the paunchy drugs baron, recently opened in the UK and two biopics are in the works, one tentatively entitled El Patrón and slated for release in 2017, starring John Leguizamo; the other from Spanish director Fernando León de Aranoa and starring Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz.
(4) It's about self-delusion, responsibility, the fear that can come with middle age, and a particularly British form of exhibitionism – a sexless, paunchy thing founded on boredom and boyish mischief.
(5) More likely, the four-to-five day meeting will primarily be about cementing his unchallenged leadership role, and entrenching the personality cult in which he has cloaked himself like some kind of paunchy, latterday Superman.
Punchy
Definition:
(a.) Short and thick, or fat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The impressive choice of drinks ranges from local cider to unusual rosés from Navarra and punchy Toro and Bierzo reds, all selected by charming Nubia, wife of Juan Mari.
(2) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
(3) Advertise the role Write a punchy advertisement for your website and distribute it via social media.
(4) Finally it has been confirmed that Cheryl Cole , the formerly punchy but now ever-so-ladylike doyenne of British showbiz, is shipping out to Los Angeles to take her place on the US X Factor judging panel.
(5) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
(6) That famous smoky vocal , London-inflected and adorable; punchy Paul Epworth production; eye-watering sales.
(7) With its brightly punchy tomato sauce, good mound of rocket, decent if sparingly distributed mozzarella and porky, spicy salsiccia sausage, my sampler largely backed up such hype.
(8) In lurid images of blood-splattered dollars fluttering down over warlords in conflict zones, accompanied by a menacing soundtrack worthy of a horror classic, the film seeks to distill in punchy form the central message of the book: that Hillary and Bill Clinton, since leaving the White House famously “dead broke” in 2001, have amassed a vast fortune of more than $200m by blurring the lines between public office, their philanthropic foundation, lucrative speaker fees and friendships with dubious characters around the world.
(9) Somehow, though, this Carry On, if slightly punchy, seaside resort is as rock-solidly English as a jaw-jutting bloke in a pub who might just grunt "You looking at my caravan?"
(10) The final day of these championships was nearly as punchy as Bolt.
(11) I was really spoilt for choice, torn between a lentil and watercress salad with an unusual citrussy dressing, and buttery purple sprouting broccoli on toast, but on a sunny day, thejameskitchen's lively, punchy green soup seemed so perfectly spring-like I couldn't resist.
(12) It's incredible – though not, perhaps, quite so punchy and addictive as her toast piled with anchovy paste, or her escarole salad, made of raw hearts and pickled outer leaves, both of which bedazzle with top notes of lemon, anchovy and parmesan.
(13) It is a punchy dish which involved nothing with a pulse other than the chef who cooked it.
(14) Economic outlook The chancellor has predicted that the economy would contract by 3.5% in 2009, but would bounce back in 2010 with expected annual growth of 1.25%, and a punchy 3%-plus in 2011.
(15) As my half century approaches, that's quite a punchy proposition.
(16) After two hours, the ending, when it comes, is surprisingly punchy.
(17) At his ill-timed press conference, four days after Closer magazine printed photos of Hollande in a crash helmet on a scooter reportedly riding to meet Gayet, 41, the president was punchy, defiant and, on the political front, supremely professional.
(18) "Editorially I think the show will be more punchy on C5, and if anything will be more risqué," says Adrian English, head of broadcast at media agency Carat UK.
(19) Three Asian patients, since adolescence, had myoclonic jerks and tonic-clonic seizures during card games, draughts, and a local game "punchi."
(20) Later she delivered a punchy performance of Rolling in the Deep, the other standout song from 21.