(n.) One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
Example Sentences:
(1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(2) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
(3) Back to my favourite Tunisian poet: “If, one day, a people desire to live, then fate will answer their call.
(4) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
(5) We don't have to be like the long-ago poet who once wrote : "Did you exist?
(6) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
(7) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(8) As a sports writer, he never missed a deadline, which was surprising for a poet.
(9) Liu Xia, a poet, has never been accused of a crime but has been under strict house arrest since shortly after the news that her husband had won the Nobel prize.
(10) By the time he joined the Army, he had begun to believe he was "more deep and true as a poet than a painter".
(11) He began his career as a professor at Yale, specialising in the Romantic poets.
(12) Perhaps, too, it’s the reason why another great Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, blew hot and cold about him.
(13) She said: "It is fascinating to see how we change as poets.
(14) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
(15) Before her detention, the poet told the Guardian she was not particularly interested in politics and seldom read her husband's works, adding: "But when you live with such a person, even if you don't care about politics, politics will care about you."
(16) One former Clifton College student, Stuart Delves, compared the relationship between students and some of the English teachers at the school in the late 60s and early 70s to the film Dead Poets Society.
(17) The international community must honour the dying wish of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo by taking immediate steps to protect his wife, the poet Liu Xia , who has endured years of government persecution, friends and supporters have said.
(18) The accused candidates include poet Vladimir Neklyayev, 64, and former deputy foreign minister, Andrei Sannikov, 56, who were both beaten by riot police during the protests.
(19) "All I had was the poet's name and a few lines of the poem.
(20) The group is named after Ezra Pound, the American poet who sided with Mussolini during the war.
Schiller
Definition:
(n.) The peculiar bronzelike luster observed in certain minerals, as hypersthene, schiller spar, etc. It is due to the presence of minute inclusions in parallel position, and is sometimes of secondary origin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phil Schiller, Apple's head of marketing, said the phone had made a "great start" and that sales were double those of the iPhone 4 launch in summer 2010.
(2) Updated at 6.51pm BST 6.30pm BST And now Phil Schiller on the Macbook line... (It's a safe bet these won't be free...) Schiller is Apple's head of marketing.
(3) Android phones, said Schiller, are "often given as a free replacement for a feature phone and the experience isn't as good as an iPhone ."
(4) The patients were followed from 1 to 16 years by the triple cytologic, Schiller test and colposcopic examination: none of them showed any recurrence either of intra-epithelial or of invasive type.
(5) While the rumour mill – and the name of Apple's software – had led many to expect that the phone would be called the "iPhone 5", Philip Schiller, the head of marketing, demonstrated the 4S and insisted that it was a complete overhaul of the iPhone 4 released 14 months ago.
(6) Schiller is back on, we've been hearing about the iPhone 5S "our most forward-thinking phone yet".
(7) DNA sequence analysis identified each cDNA encoded epitope including the carboxyl-terminal portions of cytokeratins 8 and 19 (as cataloged by Moll, R., Franke, W.W., and Schiller, D.L.
(8) Subjective parameters (leukorrhea, bloody discharge, odorous discharge, more than three weeks vaginal discharge, itching, pain, burning) and colposcopy (Schiller test reactivity, squamo-columnar junction location, abnormal transformation zones, vascular striae, deepithelialized areas or frail epithelium) appeared more favorable in the treated group, the colposcopic finding of phlogosis being the only unfavorable finding more frequent among the treated patients.
(9) Nevertheless, isoluminant stimuli are not fully accepted as appropriate tools in isolating central mechanisms (Logothetis, N.K., Schiller, P.H., Charles, E.R.
(10) German analyst Markus Schiller, an expert on North Korea’s missiles and rockets, said a geostationary satellite might be a more ambitious goal for the country than a lunar flyby or crash-landing.
(11) Schiller's test, using a weak aqueous solution of iodine, leaves an area of carcinoma unstained but colors normal cervical epithelium a dark brown.
(12) The lesion showed the typical microscopic features including Schiller-Duval bodies and colloid bodies.
(13) Overall 1,021 patients with endometrial carcinoma were treated between 1965 and 1982 at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Radiology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena.
(14) The transplanted tumours maintained not only morphological characters, such as Schiller-Duval bodies, but also the ability to synthesise alpha-fetoprotein, lactic dehydrogenase 1, liver and bone type alkaline phosphatase, and some human serum proteins.
(15) Beats Electronics, which makes and sells headphones and speakers, will be overseen by Phil Schiller, Apple’s head of worldwide marketing.
(16) 6.50pm BST iPhone 5S: camera "Most of us just want to take a picture," Schiller says - a dig at Samsung's tons of options which quickly overwhelm you.
(17) Schiller says the new ruling breaks the chain that has trapped women in relationships they want to leave, empowering them to walk away if a marriage fails.
(18) Du Bois read German literature and philosophy - Goethe, Heine, Schiller, above all Hegel.
(19) The observations lead the author to the following consequences: The in situ lesion of the cervix should be treated with a vaginal hysterectomy in combination with a removal of a vaginal cuff after a Schiller test.
(20) Light microscopic examination showed characteristic features including papillary, reticular, tubular and solid growth patterns, complete or incomplete Schiller-Duval bodies and intracellular or extracellular periodic acid-Schiff-positive material.