(1) Go Kings go!” The pun-filled press release issued by De Blasio also helpfully included the lyrics to Sinatra’s and Newman’s classic tunes, in case anyone had forgotten.
(2) Bad pun aside, investors are concerned that the company's high growth-rates are tapering.
(3) January 12, 2016 Shorten hastily responded to that debate on Twitter with a pun-laden non-answer, saying: “Cos you asked … my favourite lettuce is one that doesn’t have a 15 per cent GST on it.” Bill Shorten (@billshortenmp) Cos you asked @workmanalice - my favourite lettuce is one that doesn't have a 15 per cent GST on it.
(4) The following day, politicians and eurocrats began scrambling to hammer out a larger rescue package for Greece: 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian That was the time when puns about Acropolis Now, and ‘making a drachma out of a crisis’ were in vogue: Greek debt crisis, 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian But there wasn’t much time for jokes.
(5) Hemingway’s daughter, Corey, is in a marquee at the back of the site, painting a teddy bear onto some MDF, in the pursuit of a Teddy Boy pun that either doesn’t work, or I don’t get, but it looks great.
(6) The outcome of 53 patients operated on either for posttraumatic ulnar neuropathy (PUN) or non-traumatic cubital tunnel syndrome (CTS) was reviewed after 3 years follow-up.
(7) In a report called "Un-Finnished Business" (you can always rely on the rating agencies for a bad pun), the analysts write: We think the risks to growth in 2012 and 2013 are rising.
(8) In all experiments, supplementing TRP-deficient diets with D- and L-TRP significantly increased feed intake, rate and efficiency of gain and decreased plasma urea N (PUN).
(9) Systemic LH, FSH, glucagon, cortisol, PUN, NEFA, estradiol, and testosterone were not affected by insulin or level of feeding.
(10) The first of April is normally a day of frothy fun, where newspapers and brands compete to produce the best jokes and the worst puns to fool their readers.
(11) The unfortunate design hasn’t gone unnoticed and attracted puns galore when it was posted on Reddit over the weekend .
(12) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian The signs of wealth are everywhere, from the luxury gated village of the Pun Hlaing Golf Estate to the towers around swimming pools of Star City , both projects of the Pun empire.
(13) Emad Hajjaj, a popular Jordanian cartoonist, drew an elderly Palestinian woman by her sagging UN tent saying – in an untranslatable pun on the words “Charlie” and the colloquial Arabic “I have been” – that she had lived as a refugee for the 67 years since the creation of Israel in 1948.
(14) During the war years, his snappy, escapist films brought joy to audiences on the home front, while he was the only Hope (puns on his surname have always been de rigueur ) for thousands of troops overseas whom he entertained on his various tours from 1941.
(15) Second, the yuck factor: isn't it just beyond tasteful (no pun intended) for a woman to put her nipple into another woman's baby's mouth?
(16) The report tackles a number of issues which, excuse the pun, have been ‘bubbling’ up over the last year.
(17) Sorry and all that, but the pun was too good to use: Genre?
(18) Was The Wine Show supposed to be a deliberately awful pun on The One Show?
(19) The comedian Rob Auton, 30, has seen off competition from acclaimed pun-slingers including Tim Vine and Gary Delaney to pick up TV channel Dave's annual award for one-liners at the fringe.
(20) An experiment was conducted with 36 crossbred finishing pigs (18 male castrates and 18 females) to evaluate the effect of bromocriptine implants on growth, feed intake, feed efficiency, plasma urea nitrogen (PUN) and carcass characteristics.
Voluptuous
Definition:
(a.) Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.
(a.) Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
(2) We have diligently done this, with one exception: today's star-in-waiting, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, with whom we have been in email contact but were unable to speak to in time for this column.
(3) The Voluptuous Horror ... are purported to be converts to a movement known as "anti-naturalism" and they've got an album bearing that phrase, but they don't sound especially transgressive or perverse, which is fine – just think of their music as a way in, an access point, to an art netherworld so out-there it prompted one onlooker to hail the band's live extravaganza as "an unholy stage show of such immense countercultural gravity that I just want to scream 'Hail Satan' at the top of my lungs".
(4) The interior of the £40m shop, grouped around two voluptuous escalator wells, is the stuff of Vincent Korda's 1936 film Things to Come brought up to date.
(5) A DVD of the first series was spotted next to presidential candidate Barack Obama on his campaign plane, fashion designer Michael Kors has called the drama an inspiration and the catwalks at New York fashion week were filled with the sort of brightly coloured and simply structured dresses that Sterling Cooper's voluptuous office manager Joan Holloway would be eager to wear.
(6) They were not her invention, but they are now identified with her uncompromising, demanding vision and it shapes the way we in our turn see them: seductive, voluptuous, speaking of an uncorseted ease.
(7) In Borgen, Nyborg is shown trying to struggle into a pre-approved black suit, ahead of a debate; she also worries about having been called "voluptuous" in another dress.
(9) Or as ex-Parisian and writer Adam Gopnik puts it in his book Paris to the Moon: "Paris marries both the voluptuous and the restricted.
(10) No one today, least of all myself, can begin to match Tynan’s voluptuous prose.
(11) She begins to sew her shroud from her first chapter, when she copies out the Brontë grave tablet in Haworth church, voluptuously listing those who died of consumption: Charlotte's mother, Maria, her sisters Maria, Elizabeth, Anne and Emily, and her brother Branwell.
(12) Here was architecture as tourist magnet; travel agents offered weekend breaks to Bilbao simply to see Gehry's voluptuous sensation.
(13) I came to know and love them in reverse order: first the incandescent and subtly erotic Gertrud (1964), discovered in my early 20s shortly after it premiered; then the gut-wrenching Ordet (1955), which I initially hated when I first saw it in my teens, misconstruing its climactic miracle as a tool of religious propaganda; and finally the voluptuous and mysterious Day of Wrath (1943), which I didn't appreciate or understand until my 40s, when I finally saw it in a decent 35mm print.
(14) Listening to the voluptuous precision with which he articulated his dream of feasting "on the swelling, unctuous paps of a fat, pregnant sow", it was good to be reminded of the matchless clarity of the Richardson voice which remains one of the great treasures of my theatre-going lifetime.
(15) On Friedrichstrasse: “A bodily dream rising and falling with voluptuous breath then descends upon the street, and everything races, races, races with uncertain step in pursuit of this all-encompassing dream.” 7.
(16) A generation of postwar cinephiles rhapsodised over her earthy voluptuousness, her hourglass figure, her "bedroom eyes", her cascading brunette tresses.
(17) For someone so attracted to the irresistible nature of the horrible – what one commentator labelled "abhorrent sublime" – Kembra's band, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, so-named because one of her favourite movies is the eponymous actor's 1975 film Trilogy of Terror, aren't the uneasy listening experience you might imagine.
(18) She has offered her voluptuous cleavage and fine facial features as a way to glamorise the female labour of feeding family and friends.
(19) He did a production of Cymbeline with Vanessa Redgrave at Stratford that was sort of voluptuous in its lucidity … And his Richard III [with Christopher Plummer and Edith Evans] was very striking.” Vicky Featherstone, the Royal Court’s current artistic director, described Gaskill as a “brilliant, uncompromising theatre director, and a legendary figure as artistic director of the Royal Court in the 1960s.
(20) A voluptuous, young and healthy looking American Eagle model adorned with a bright pink bra and a sparkling smile, several stories high above Times Square in New York City, is asking us to "show your support".