What's the difference between quiff and stratagem?

Quiff


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
  • (2) Like Paul Hollywood's salt and pepper quiff, there's no visible means of support.
  • (3) Nostalgia has had its niche in pop ever since 70s stars such as Showaddywaddy and the late Les Gray of Mud cheerfully recycled the rhythms and quiffs of the 50s.
  • (4) By contrast, most bad guys in big summer blockbusters find themselves contending with a tornado of special effects, leaving actors even as brilliant as Benedict Cumberbatch, as he was in Star Trek Into Darkness, with little to do but race around with their quiff blowing in the wind.
  • (5) Yet Frost failed to convince Private Eye (launched in 1961), which routinely portrayed him in cartoons – scenes of toga'd Roman decadence were popular in the Profumo scandal phase of Harold Macmillan's rule – as "Juvenile, the court satyr with faithful audience of Daily Mail columnists," a man whose quiff cost 25 guineas at fashionable Raymonde's salon, the Eye told readers.
  • (6) But there were reasons to admire the Everlys other than their vocal harmonies: with their giant quiffs and Hollywood smiles, Phil and Don exuded American cool, while their songs (many written by Nashville husband and wife team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant) mixed sweet ballads like Devoted To You with sly high-school tales ( Poor Jenny ) and teen angst wails such as When Will I Be Loved .
  • (7) And secondly, his appearance is all the answer I need: a slight, young-looking, 42-year-old with thick, black-rimmed glasses, wavy vertical quiff and a blue-grey smock shirt that could be part of a uniform on, say, an intergalactic space vessel.
  • (8) With his yellow ties and generous quiff, he stands ever ready to slam the unions and moan about Europe.
  • (9) He’s tall with square shoulders, his hair shaved at the sides with a floppy quiff on top.
  • (10) In the morning he'd had a Roger McGuinn bowl cut, but at the Haçienda his hair was up, an Elvis quiff.
  • (11) Ever mindful of his image, he was photographed with a bloodstained bandage swathing his rakish quiff.
  • (12) They lower her in and her two burly sons (in drainpipes and teddy-boy quiffs) shovel earth on top.
  • (13) Morrissey's style also caught his eye, as Howarth also wore his hair in a quiff, inspired by David Tennant's Doctor Who, and liked flowery shirts.
  • (14) He sometimes receives visitors with his jacket off, and, at 54, still wears his hair in a boyish quiff.
  • (15) To the south-west we can see the cliffs of Moher sporting a quiff of black cloud; to the west is Inis Oírr, the island where we spent the previous night.
  • (16) I remember going to gay bars in London that Bowie was known to frequent and it gave many of us courage not to hide, to have confidence in ourselves.’ In 1975 Bowie veered off into new territory, exploring his love of Philly soul with the Young Americans album , and introducing a look that has echoed through both gay clubs and soul weekenders ever since: the extravagant quiff or dyed wedge cut, teamed with a tailored shirt and baggy trousers.
  • (17) "The boy looked at Johnny," she sings, and then a rockabilly nightmare of switchblades and erotic pain unfolds in a glassy stilled imagery of sex and death: Johnny goes down on his knees and all he can see are "horses, horses, horses…" The iconography of this song is reproduced in a 1983 self-portrait in which Mapplethorpe poses in a leather jacket wielding a switchblade with his hair slicked into an ornate meta-rocker quiff.
  • (18) Composite: Getty But, then again, even the most strait-laced Conservative leaders were once pop-pickers: in his biography of Michael Howard, Michael Crick revealed that Howard sported an Elvis quiff in his youth.
  • (19) The Stratford Halo, at 43 storeys, is the biggest and boldest, wrapped with dubious purple pinstripes and topped with a jaunty quiff – and hosting a gaudy light show by night.
  • (20) Impish, irreverent and sporting combed-forward hair with a quiff at the front, the former Cambridge Footlights star, a Methodist minister's son from Kent, seemed to embody the new, impatient generation.

Stratagem


Definition:

  • (n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In nearly every case husband and wife agreed on the choice of stratagem, a majority of the couples forming the sample opting for disassociation.
  • (2) This article contains a potpurri of surgically related stratagems, alternative techniques, and philosophies.
  • (3) The ready selection of rCD4-resistant variants has obvious relevance for rCD4-based therapeutic stratagems.
  • (4) Skills we develop in the clinical setting can be combined with practice audit to produce the ideal management stratagem.
  • (5) He suggests that this is the dynamic that drives unthinking partisan allegiance ("What's most distinctive about the current presidential election and our political culture [is] … how unconditionally so many partisans back their side's every edict, plaint and stratagem"), as well as numerous key political frauds, from Saddam's WMDs to Obama's fake birth certificate to Romney's failure to pay taxes for 10 years.
  • (6) Abraham also posited an alternative stratagem for government to cash in on Channel 4, which is allowing it the financial freedom to invest and grow the wider UK creative economy.
  • (7) The hypothesis of asymmetric otolith function asserts that physiological or anatomical differences in the two sides of the bilateral gravity-sensing otolith apparatus of the inner ear may be well compensated on Earth, but when exposed to novel gravitational states, the prior compensatory stratagems may be ineffective, leading to unstable vestibular responses and causing the phenomenon of space motion sickness.
  • (8) The model stipulates that given exposure to sustained aversive maternal control and a maternal communication style which is subtle and devious, the child comes to adapt with approach, stratagem-based behaviours and heightened vigilance for evaluative information (i.e.
  • (9) The use of a differential probing stratagem, based on the hybridisation of specific oligonucleotides to either pUC13 polylinker or unaltered PYK 3' UTR sequences, allowed for discrimination between mutant (plasmid borne) and wild-type (chromosomal) PYK transcripts.
  • (10) Recent pharmacological studies utilizing human intracranial artery preparations have addressed two distinct therapeutic stratagems.
  • (11) His inspired stratagem is to embrace the national rugby team, the darlings of the formerly ruling Afrikaners and, for most nonwhite South Africans, a symbol of brutal and humiliating repression.
  • (12) The implications of this observation pertain to toxicity effects when EDTA is incorporated into ocular drug products for stability purposes, or novel stratagems for improving ocular bioavailability of topically applied drugs are employed.
  • (13) Though the cabinet had rejected such a stratagem - dubbed Big Pines - in December 1981, Oxford professor Avi Shlaim suggests Eitan and Sharon aimed to implement it in stages, via Peace for Galilee.
  • (14) It is proposed that these changes in surface antigenicity constitute an evasive stratagem used by the parasite to deter the host from mounting a potentially lethal inflammatory response.
  • (15) This paper presents a series of stratagems designed to minimize the potential psychological problems of children who require dermatological surgery.
  • (16) The technical stratagems to model the nose are: (1) alignment of the premaxilla and (2) anatomic placement of the alar cartilages with sculpturing of the overlying soft tissue.
  • (17) Rotating the detector in close apposition to the head has required various stratagems to avoid detector-shoulder contact: the selective reduction of camera shielding, the use of long bore collimators, and the 30 degrees angulation of the camera head for slant hole collimation.
  • (18) In public, Walker employs moderate, conciliatory rhetoric, while privately, he gushes over more anti-union stratagems to come.
  • (19) These concepts may be important in designing treatment stratagems for intracellular pathogens.
  • (20) The slower antigenic change found for NA further supports the potential for NA-specific infection-permissive immunization as a useful stratagem against influenza.

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