(a.) Talking irrationally and wildly; as, a raving lunatic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(2) UPDATE: Aztec new rave Katy Perry performs onstage.
(3) A century ago, on April 29th 1885, the "Raving Reporter" Egon Erwin Kisch was born in Prague.
(4) As night fell, one teenager, Alex, who had slipped out of an independent school (she refused to say which one) was heading home, pausing only grab a flier advertising a "Snow Rave" for 16-18-year-olds.
(5) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(6) They were closely followed by Louise Redknapp and Kevin Clifton, whose American smooth received rave reviews from Revel Horwood.
(7) "I understand you're in town to check out our team," Roth told to Dempsey, the hint of a rave green collar visible beneath his grey sweatshirt.
(8) Whether or not Moore takes credit, his electro house and amped-up dubstep sound has found its way into the fabric of American subculture in a way no other rave genre has before.
(9) No, actually, I am referring to the new HBO series created by and starring ubertalented, zeitgeist-munching wunderkind Lena Dunham , which has just premiered to largely the ravest of rave reviews in the US.
(10) Online, Boyle has been one of the top five most talked-about subjects on the microblogging site Twitter all week, with the Hollywood actors Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore - who between them have nearly 1.5 million followers - raving about her.
(11) The film won awards at Sundance and rave reviews in unlikely places such as Variety and the Hollywood Reporter .
(12) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
(13) 'Jonathan Saunders, Preen, Berardi, Kane and JW Anderson are on fire' Those are the names you will be raving about now.
(14) I remember in 06 or so everyone was raving, clubbing, having fun.
(15) Shitdisco are from Scotland, sound less like anything "rave" than like the unremarkable row once made by such rock-groups-with-a-synthesizer as Classix Nouveaux, and will surely all be over by Christmas.
(16) It was these material conditions (more than the talent of individual singers and writers) that spawned the moments that went crashing through popular culture in the UK – from mod to punk, from 2 Tone to rave.
(17) That can’t be the only story we’re hearing – there are new things going on, new underground raves, but there needs to be more money going into making the arts and culture more prominent, so people can get involved more easily.
(18) Hard Festival's Richards wanted to lose the "goofy fashion" side of rave that EDC revels in.
(19) DanceSafe's Messer, a veteran of the idealistic PLUR (peace, love, unity, respect) oriented rave underground of the 90s, complains that the dance festivals offer a "packaged, containerised experience ...
(20) Ironic that an experimental music veteran with 20 years behind him should be leading a fresh charge into the 90s, setting up the framework for Autechre, Aphex Twin and the whole intelligent dance music (IDM) scene, but the rise of sampling, rave and techno was the realisation of a music that codgers like Kirk had only been able to dream of decades earlier, prior to the arrival of the technology.
Razing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raze
Example Sentences:
(1) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(2) MSF said the village of Lekongole has been razed to the ground.
(3) Helicopter crews have reported that entire villages have been razed there.
(4) His village was later razed and he felt too traumatised to return, he said.
(5) As a newly appointed prime minister in 1999, before becoming president on New Year's Day 2000, he began with a war in Chechnya , brutally suppressing an armed insurrection against Moscow's rule in the north Caucasus and razing the provincial capital, Grozny.
(6) The provisional structures that have been built in the area, including shops, cafes, churches and mosques, will all be razed as part of efforts to clear regions of the camp next to a motorway leading to the port, where there have been clashes with police.
(7) What is known is that a number of villages, including Likuangole, were razed to the ground.
(8) The massacre at Sharpeville , the first trial of Nelson Mandela , the razing of the black township of Sophiatown , signalled a regime prepared to shoot, jail or exile its opponents – and as Nakasa said, to bore the rest to death.
(9) When Katniss stands in the rubble of her district razed to the ground, it could be parts of Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan.
(10) The last one – a magnitude 8.1 in 1934 – razed around a quarter of Kathmandu to the ground and killed 17,000 people.
(11) Up to 15 people are thought to have been killed and more than 160 injured after a massive explosion and fire tore through a fertiliser plant and razed dozens of homes in a small Texas town on Wednesday night.
(12) Turn Britain's regions into subsidiaries of London, raze its business and political elites, and you have hardly any counterbalance to the might of the City.
(13) Moses wanted to extend Fifth Avenue through the square, ostensibly to ease congestion in Greenwich Village's dense maze of streets, but also to reward developers building on 10 blocks he'd razed to the south.
(14) Author deals with the possiblity of determination of various razes.
(15) But it is the first such modern museum in Poland , devoted to the 63-day insurrection in August and September 1944 that left 200,000 dead and incurred a terrible revenge when the Nazis methodically razed Warsaw.
(16) The result has been to raze the platform of the governing socialist party to a charred mess.
(17) Andy Warhol's first Factory location was razed in the late 1960s.
(18) But I don’t think this gets to the heart of why the razing of the temple rightly matters so much to us, and why such concerns can be as powerful as the ones we have for individual lives.
(19) First is that it goes the way of Badia East, razed for high-rises, or Bar Beach, site of a massive land reclamation project that is turning nine square kilometres of Atlantic Ocean into what developers are touting as “the Manhattan of west Africa”, a residential and commercial mini-city called Eko Atlantic .
(20) Britain can now boast its place as the world’s leading internet economy, but if no action is taken, our success stories could be razed to the ground.