(n.) A spark; the least particle; an iota; a tittle.
Example Sentences:
(1) But there's not a scintilla of doubt in Kurzweil's mind about this.
(2) "I don't believe that the Conservative and Liberal coalition has yet come to terms with the fact that they've no mandate to run Scotland, no mandate whatsoever, not a scintilla of a mandate," he said.
(3) Its conclusions, a number of which point unerringly to the guilt of Sacco and none of which add a scintilla to the case against Vanzetti, are analyzed in this paper, which is in two parts.
(4) So whether any of the above is the same as wielding a scintilla of power or real influence over anyone but the already terminally idiotic is deeply debatable.
(5) Belittling comments like these don't warm Republicans' hearts to help Obama advance one scintilla of an issue in his second term.
(6) He says only journalists and politicians would be interested in putting names to salary numbers that look like lottery wins and there is "not one scintilla of evidence that such a policy would improve corporate governance".
(7) They are totally untrue and are not supported by a scintilla of evidence.
(8) The Abbott government trumpets turnbacks as the key to stopping the flow of unauthorised boats, and the Coalition is keen to exploit any scintilla of difference between itself and Labor when it comes to deterrence policies.
(9) Doctors have never been much given to saying sorry, presumably because to admit a scintilla of self-doubt would paralyse the scalpel hand while opening up the prospect of a damages claim worth at least a couple of hip replacements.
(10) Billy Hayes, general secretary of the CWU, said: "Shares will make no scintilla of difference to postal workers who are far more concerned about their jobs.
Stencil
Definition:
(n.) A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.
(v. t.) To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.
Example Sentences:
(1) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
(2) Qassem is one of a small band of graffiti artists in the Afghan capital who, encouraged by a group of western "art activists", are set on bringing tagging, wall-painting and graphic stencils to public spaces across the city.
(3) Kaltenbach's step test (individually by stencils defined normal ranges of the heart rate during a 6 minute submaximal exercise and a 6 minute recovery period; age and sex dependent work load relative to body surface area) is able to mimic everyday efforts in an easy and reliable way.
(4) Stencilling – If you want to get started with spray cans, precut stencils are pretty easy to get your hands on and you can make some really nice things by overlapping the same patterns with different colours.
(5) It was facing closure earlier this year and needed £120,000 to survive – until the Banksy stencil arrived next to the club's gates.
(6) The envelope contains a small red card with the number 23 stencilled in black and a handwritten invitation to deliver a talk of my choosing at the semi-annual convention to take place in mid-January in Berlin.
(7) Leopard and Barcode, one of the artist’s celebrated early stencil works, had been situated on the side of a house on Pembroke Road, Bristol.
(8) "He's sort of like Batman," Matt Adams, a Williamsburg resident, said as he photographed the Japanese-themed stencil.
(9) Leopard and Barcode, one of the artist’s celebrated early stencil works, had been situated on the side of a house on Pembroke Road, Bristol .
(10) A piece of engine cowling featuring a Rolls-Royce stencil, which was found in South Africa earlier this year , is “almost certainly” from the Boeing 777 that went missing more than two years ago with 239 people on board, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said on Thursday.
(11) Retrospective evaluation of the nomogram showed that it can separate normal labour from labour destined to result in an abnormal outcome, such as longer first and second stages, a greater incidence of instrumental delivery, and babies with low Apgar scores.It is suggested that the use of a stencil representing normal labour progress, together with Philpott's partogram, will be of considerable use, both in specialist and in general-practitioner units.
(12) Glenn Ligon – Call and Response Often using words as image, Ligon’s stencilled paintings, neons and films detail the experience of black America.
(13) Two years later, when “The Four” were invited to contribute to the London Arts and Crafts Exhibition, he sent a rather heavily proportioned settle, with stencilled patterns and beaten metal panels, made by Margaret Macdonald.
(14) That’s me,” he said of the stencilled outline shown in one of the clips.
(15) "It's quite easy to be a bad stencil artist, but it takes a lot of work to get the images he gets."
(16) Dj Lu’s pineapple hand-grenade stencil is one of the most famous and prominent symbols on the streets of Bogotá - a comment, he says, on the way land is used in Colombia , where soil that was once for crops is now full of landmines.
(17) Instead, the site showed images of only one painting, a stencil of a man and a woman standing in a doorway and appearing to embrace, but in fact looking over each other's shoulders to read their smartphones, which illuminate their faces.
(18) I am very optimistic about the future of an independent UK.” In front of Jackson’s stencil is David Burns, a wheelchair user from Dorset, who describes himself as “a self-unemployed artist”.
(19) The artist's work, even when removed from outdoor locations, can command huge sums: in February a painting of two policemen kissing that had originally been stencilled onto a pub wall in Brighton was sold at a Miami auction for $575,000.
(20) But their identities can be gleaned by cross-checking photos submitted online against silhouette stencils applied by Perry to the pots shown in clips he has released.