(1) Ishaq Siddiqi, market strategist at ETX Capital , summed up the markets: Equities looking perky, US dollar gaining lost ground versus other currencies, gold reversing previous session gains... and bonds falling out of favour on risk-on mood currently sweeping price-action.
(2) Mental visual imagery interferes with vision: the Perky (1910) effect.
(3) When I asked a Swedish friend what the tent, pastel kitchen units, and perky crockery displays in All of Sweden is Baking brought to mind, she replied, immediately: “Ikea and summer weekend cabins.” Phillips has not even lost hope of selling the format to China, which has no tradition of covered ovens, let alone baking – despite the fact that one broadcaster has turned her down on the grounds that Chinese audiences won’t watch a television programme “that makes you fat”.
(4) One Wild Moment was previously remade by Hollywood in 1984 as Blame it on Rio, with Michael Caine as the older man who embarks on an affair with Michelle Johnson's perky teenager in a version that also provided an early role for Demi Moore.
(5) Fleet Street Fox, media blogger, aka Susie Boniface Jane Austen is a perfectly good writer, and I enjoy reading about perky young girls and smouldering, tightly breeched heroes as much as anyone.
(6) On interest rates, the Bank of England still has the pedal to the metal, and George Osborne has made sure the housing market is perky verging on pesky .
(7) In a recent Grantland podcast , the head of the US network Comedy Central suggested that the success of perky shows such as Parks And Recreation was due to Generation Y's more optimistic outlook on life.
(8) His chatter on- and off-air has a smooth, perky tone perfect for linking Zack FM favourites such as REO Speedwagon and Madonna.
(9) Entertainment Weekly, which has had the inside line on Abrams’ film, has posted an intriguing look at the perky orange-and-white ball droid, which we believe begins the movie as an aide to X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron, but has been seen in the company of Daisy Ridley’s Rey, and even on board the Millennium Falcon, in trailers and TV spots.
(10) Skylarks are smallish, brown birds with a perky crest and streaky plumage.
(11) Before that, his teenage band the Jades had released two entirely unexceptional doo-wop tracks in 1958 and two years later he had chanced his arm as a solo singer, recording in the perky, post-rock'n'roll style that predominated in pre-Beatles America.
(12) It's a bit late now for Sir Mervyn to talk of taking away the punch bowl, just as perky ministers boast of green shoots, turning corners and Danny Alexander's "increasing momentum" .
(13) There's perky, honeyed jazz from the live band when guests step on stage and plenty of warm laughter from the live audience, which sits rather awkwardly on radio: it's not always clear what the laughs are about, and it's odd to hear the midday news, for example, signed off with unexplained guffaws.
(14) This interference was interpreted as showing the assimilation of the signal tone into imagery, i.e., the effect described by Perky in 1910, occurred in the auditory modality.
(15) While the perky Jack Russell was banned from the Oscar nominations owing to an academy rule, he did take the coveted Palm Dog gong at Cannes in May 2011 and triumphed in the inaugural Golden Collar awards in LA in February.
(16) Here is Alfred Drury's perky 1930s statue of Sir Joshua, palette in hand and manner breezily conversational.
(17) Then I looked at the lyrics, and what strikes you is the crazy dichotomy of the very perky music, and these incredibly revolutionary lyrics.
(18) And the truth is, most of them were never in a recording studio again (2007) ON STEPHEN GATELY BEING GAY I had no idea… on my mother's life (2008) ON USING A "BANG" (BAND AUTOMATIC NAME GENERATOR) Some of the suggestions I got were Perky Gravy, Silk Radius, Witless and Curly Spam (2007) ON THE BEST THING ABOUT THE X FACTOR It's real, everything is real, nothing is staged (2007) ON GIRL BANDS There's a common perception that behind the scenes it's all catfights and screaming rows.
(19) These are riddled with misogyny (the cook on the Good Ship Venus serves up a stew of female gynaecological waste products) and other bigotries, including the perky verse in Four and Twenty Virgins when the “village cripple” who “wasn’t up to much” is laid on his back so that he can be “fucked with his crutch”.
(20) Grazia Daily , for example, recently ran a whole article about how Kardashian dresses her "designer booty", cooing over how her "perky posterior ... wiggles with abandon in a suede pencil skirt", as though the journalist were a thigh-rubbing Benny Hill fan as opposed to a writer for a magazine ostensibly aimed at women.
Perry
Definition:
(n.) A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.
(n.) A suddent squall. See Pirry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Academisation and a school system on the brink | Letters Read more Perry Beeches has been a favourite of Cameron, as well as former education secretary Michael Gove and his successor Nicky Morgan .
(2) Perry and I are on our way to the Silicon Drinkabout , a get-together for anyone connected to the tech scene, hosted every week by a different local bar.
(3) Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, and Rick Perry, the Texas governor, are both headed to South Carolina for most of the next week.
(4) UPDATE: Aztec new rave Katy Perry performs onstage.
(5) Some will be here a day, some will be here weeks.” 9.14pm BST Earlier today, Texas governor Rick Perry declared McLennan County a disaster area and said he plans to request federal aid.
(6) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
(7) When Japan was finally opened to western influence by Commodore Perry in 1854, Shakespeare's works – via Lamb's Tales – followed closely behind.
(8) The party was founded to fight for a better deal for thousands of local co-operatives during the first world war, and in the years afterwards elected a handful of MPs (including Sam Perry, the father of Fred Perry the tennis champion).
(9) Perry himself said that “anxiety seems to be a theme” of the submissions from remainers.
(10) It would be hugely problematic for Perry if any clear evidence were to emerge that he stopped the funding because he did not want a public integrity unit, especially one led by a Democrat, probing too closely into alleged improprieties .
(11) Perry said she was insured but asked: "How much will that cost to renew now?
(12) Perry, Cruz, Cornyn and other politicians frequently turn to TPPF to help make the intellectual case for reducing government involvement in healthcare.
(13) ‘Britain brilliantly placed to lead the world’ “Driverless cars have huge potential to transform the UK’s transport network – they could improve safety, reduce congestion and lower emissions, particularly CO2,” said the transport minister, Claire Perry, who committed to the regulatory review of road law.
(14) Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan are all not so far-fetched names for a run in 2016.
(15) Perry said Lehmberg, who is based in Austin, should resign after she was arrested and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in April 2013.
(16) In a parliamentary debate last month, Claire Perry, a Conservative MP who has campaigned for tighter controls, said that 60% of nine- to 19-year-olds had found porn online, while only 15% of computer-literate parents knew how to use filters to block access to certain sites.
(17) Psychotherapist Philippa Perry gave a talk at the ICA earlier this year, entitled "How To Be Happy".
(18) Perry said the identify of the insurgent was not known.
(19) This privileged access reflects not only the networking skills of Labour MP Graham Allen, the founding chair of the Early Intervention Foundation and a self-confessed fan of Perry, but a genuine interest among policymakers in ideas that appear to address pressing issues for austerity Britain.
(20) At his presidential announcement last week, former Texas governor Rick Perry called the withdrawal from Iraq “a national disgrace” and argued that the US had “won” the war in 2009 only to see the Obama administration squander its victory by leaving.