(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.
Pesky
Definition:
(a.) Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, there is that pesky matter of public debt, which is still 90% of eurozone GDP.
(2) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
(3) If anyone in Macclesfield wants, for a small fee, I will come round to your house, lift the pesky varmint out of the bath with finger and thumb and fling it out of the window.
(4) I'd known I was a girl since I was four, if you'll excuse the cliche, but everyone told me I couldn't be, because of a pesky penis between my legs.
(5) Stokes sent a downward header towards the far corner from seven yards but the pesky keeper again meddled, diving full length to push it to safety.
(6) 7.55pm BST 8 min: Bayern are determined that they will prevail but pesky Dortmund just keep disrupting their attempts to build moves.
(7) The fate of the American car industry, that pesky stimulus package, impending financial and ecological doom.
(8) However, the same pesky proprietary screws are present, and it's never a joy to encounter fused (read: expensive to replace) displays.
(9) Hopefully users will be able to finally do away with pesky pins and iTunes passwords.
(10) They want to get round the pesky one-person-one-vote principle that democracies anachronistically cling to in the face of economic reality.
(11) And all because those pesky London house prices mean having room for a baby is a pipe dream.
(12) A lot of women have the idea that IUD, IUS and also injectables can affect future fertility in the long term, and there is really no evidence for that.” Mumbled misinformation aside, long-acting reversible contraception has a trump card, as one IUS-using friend put it: “Once it is installed in your body, you can’t not take it, so it gets rid of that pesky human error.” It’s a thought that has struck policy-makers, too.
(13) Once you start measuring a citizen’s worth and standing by their financial muscle, women will be disadvantaged, with their pesky career breaks and maternity leave entitlements.
(14) Unusual among grains, quinoa has a high protein content (between 14%-18%), and it contains all those pesky, yet essential, amino acids needed for good health that can prove so elusive to vegetarians who prefer not to pop food supplements.
(15) Yet the coalition's reflex response remains to defend the City against the pesky meddling of Brussels.
(16) There’s the constant traffic belching fumes that linger in the humid air; the uneven sidewalks that have a pesky habit of vanishing halfway along the street; the sheer distances to cover in this elongated, ever-expanding metropolis.
(17) Interviewed this morning about the interim report of Sir Howard Davies's Airports Commission , the London mayor sputtered with frustration at Britain's inability to get its act together and keep up with its international rivals: "You go to Hong Kong, they're flying every hour of the day and night," he said, forgetting to mention that in the Chinese territory decisions can be made without too much regard to the pesky demands of voters on the flightpath.
(18) He's still a pesky and dangerous playmaker, although his effectiveness of late has been sapped by a knee injury that the Spurs certainly will exploit.
(19) The old joke that the BBC would be an efficient, well oiled machine if it were not for the pesky programme makers, seemed to be taken seriously at the top.
(20) 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 .