(v.) A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.
Example Sentences:
(1) The winner of the Saltire prize will have to generate 100 gigawatt hours over a two-year period, not 100GW
(2) Milne and his wife Moira live in a former coastguard’s station on the highest point overlooking Trump’s course, which now has the Mexican flag fluttering alongside his Scottish saltire flag.
(3) "A few saltires," as Salmond said after waving one around at Wimbledon, so as to own the Murray victory, "doesn't really harm at all."
(4) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said the £10m Saltire prize was the world's most valuable government-funded prize for technology innovation, but critics complained that it was a wasteful "vanity project".
(5) It confirms that the saltire will continue to serve as the national flag of Scotland and that the choice of national anthem will be made by the Scottish parliament.
(6) And protected behind a privacy screen, four Lib Dem workers stoically continued working away on their campaign, as scores of raucous SNP supporters, their saltires, SNP placards and balloons above their heads, greeted Sturgeon’s arrival.
(7) In the ballroom, couples at a lunchtime tea dance swirl around an interior decked with miniature saltires – and on 30 November, St Andrew's Day will be celebrated with the help of the association's pipe band, a "Scottish disco", and one Gerry Trew, "with his tribute to Rod Stewart".
(8) The first minister claims that he was the first to recognise that the Pentland Firth could be the Saudi Arabia of tidal energy, but it is increasingly clear that his Saltire prize is becoming the Millennium Dome of marine energy."
(9) This picture shows a discoloured, ragged Ineos flag flying behind the Scottish Saltire: Photograph: Sean Farrell A second look at a sign for the Grangemouth Business Centre shows that "BP" has been covered up with white tape.
(10) But hold on to your hats and your seat-backs, your Union Jacks and Saltires.
(11) As the journalist Iain Macwhirter writes in an alarm-bell-ringing essay published this week by the Saltire Society , "Scotland has a national political system, but is in danger of losing a national media."
(12) We heard from Catalans seeking a secession vote on what they think about Scotland’s own independence vote , and plenty of Saltires found their way to the streets of Barcelona.
(13) The saltired, heather-dusted frock coat has already been tailored, and awaits your beloved, skeletal frame.
(14) No doubt a thistle or a Saltire will be on the shortlist.
(15) The announcement of the Saltire prize has brought huge international publicity," he said.
(16) Writing for the Guardian , as the independence movement prepares to mark a year to go before the referendum, on 18 September 2014, Bell said: "The campaigns to date have been a tedious parade of union jacks versus saltires, of pop identity about caring Scots versus heartless Tories."
(17) In fact it looks like more of the same – but under the saltire.
(18) It is striking that the referendum has turned out not to be about certain things: Braveheart , kilts, the saltire , hating Sassenachs , Rabbie Burns, Renton’s rant in Trainspotting about the Scots allowing themselves to be “ colonised by wankers ”.
(19) The saltire, perhaps with a wee silhouette of Holyrood behind it, could be a kitemark to denote the highest band of democratic excellence.
(20) The Saltire prize has been endorsed by National Geographic, but opposition parties today dismissed it as a publicity-stunt, a view privately shared by some senior renewables industry figures.
Satire
Definition:
(a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
(a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
Example Sentences:
(1) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(2) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(3) A Cairo heart surgeon inspired by the US news programme The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has captivated Egyptian viewers with a new style of satirical TV show poking fun at politicians on air for the first time.
(4) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(5) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
(6) One particular poem attacked by Liao, he said, is not praising a disgraced party official, but is actually satire.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Some recent statements on gay marriage from Ireland: "This is really a kind of a satire on marriage that is being conducted by the gay lobby.
(8) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(9) Homegrown talent Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s not much in the way of English-speaking talent, but Papi Jiang has become China’s biggest internet sensation after her satirical rants on topics of popular culture went viral on Youku (A Chinese version of YouTube) earlier this year.
(10) The satirical animus is what vibrates the molecules.
(11) Vice, folly and humbug – it is the point of satire really.
(12) So yes, it might sound far-fetched, the sort of proposal that lends itself to endless satire from the triumphalist neoliberal right.
(13) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
(14) So we’re eagerly awaiting Mike Bartlett’s darkly satirical verse drama.
(15) But Oliver now seems to have accepted his fate as a satirical news anchor who covers the Trump campaign, wading into the recent phallus-based Trump news in his headlines section on Sunday night.
(16) "But I think, as comics, we need to be braver and address what's happening in the world, and in this country, with satire based on real knowledge of the political situation."
(17) We wear its many dysfunctions as a badge of honour, proudly swapping real-life stories that elsewhere in the world would belong in the realms of sci-fi or satire.
(18) In a related development, on Saturday, I was supposed to host a discussion with Roger Drew, a writer on the political satire The Thick of It , about the 2012 Leveson-inspired Goolding inquiry episode .
(19) Laughing in the face of danger: the state of satire in the Muslim world Read more “The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table.
(20) The game's co-writer Dan Houser has described it as a satire on Los Angeles, and more specifically a modern Hollywood fading into insignificance in an era of outsourced production.