(n.) The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.
(n.) Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
(2) Attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing this week, Barack Obama wore, along with other participants, a bright purple silky Chinese-style shirt .
(3) For example, coats fastened at the hip with bracelet's length of heavy chain, but engineered so that they moved fluidly; a black and red tweed coat was based on a 1968 vintage coat, but the tweed remade in a rubberised, modern version; tunic-and-trousers offered as a cool cocktail hour look, a highlight being one all black look with a matt crepe top edged with silky black ruffles at the hip, over slouchy trousers.
(4) Thirteen isolates from one golden pheasant and three white silky fowls, three black silky fowls, three Japanese long crowers, and three Japanese bantams produced herpes-like cytopathic effects (CPE) in the CEF cultures.
(5) Basque specials include grilled kokotxas (gelatinous, subtly flavoured hake glands, an acquired taste) in green sauce, silky red piquillo pepper stuffed with oxtail, grilled scallop and spherical steak croquetas .
(6) We sail through the checkpoints without trouble – Rashid has no English but he’s proud of his ability to negotiate these checkpoints with silky smooth ease.
(7) Shorts are not exactly news but it was this summer that they really went mainstream, with every high-street shop in town doing silky summer shorts, Chloe-esque scalloped shorts and Rihanna-style sporty shorts, and these were simply the norm.
(8) Built by IBM , Watson, as the computer is known, can answer questions in a silky digital voice and knows a hell of a lot of trivia on everything from children's fiction to archaeology and the musical oeuvre of Maurice Chevalier.
(9) Interview with Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times 2009 In other words "An international reputation for his silky intermingling of hybrid movement forms an emotionally intense theatre."
(10) Popular with journalists and staff from Editora Abril – the offices of Brazil's magazine leviathan are just down the road – Ella offers silky, exquisite homemade pasta, springy gnocchi and tender milanesas (breaded steak in a superbly crunchy coating).
(11) Tonight, dressed in a thick tweedy, collared waistcoat, his hair tied back with a silky ribbon, he is an unmissable presence; the ruddy-cheeked pig farmer up to the city for the night.
(12) Iberian lynx: back from the brink of extinction ... and run down by cars Read more The silky sea mammal, native to the west coast of California and off the Guadalupe islands of Mexico, has now moved from the “near threatened” to the “least concern” category, largely thanks to the enforcement of laws such as the USA Marine Mammal Protections Act, it said.
(13) The Spurs outscored the Heat 36-17 in the final quarter, putting a silky gloss on the scoreline that belied just how close this contest was.
(14) Long’s ethereally light, yielding chips, which deliver a proper potato flavour, live up to the hype – as does the impeccably fresh haddock, which falls apart in firm, silky flakes.
(15) 6 Uncover and boil off almost all the liquid to give a silky sauce.
(16) It's sort of My Little Pony gone wrong … There was nothing wrong with Frank Lampard's goal during practice for last week's Ireland friendly and Robin van Persie showed off his silky skills during a childrens' tournament in the Netherlands.
(17) The hair became longer, lighter, softer, and silky, and it was occasionally discolored.
(18) The alkyl moieties in wax esters and alkyl diacyl glycerols from the liver of the dogfish, soupfin shark, and silky shark are almost exclusively saturated and monounsaturated, the main alkyl moieties being the C(16) and C(18) chains in both lipid classes.
(19) There was his silky style, his daunting courage and his principled stance – but what made them tangible was his transporting charisma, the gift of being able to touch people, amuse them, make them feel just a little bit more alive.
(20) Thus the colonization or noncolonization of the organs of the Silkie fowl embryo by melanoblasts seems to depend on environmental cues.
Sulkiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
(2) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
(3) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
(4) The sulky teenager has, in fact, got it slightly wrong: the family tradition is to be impregnated by the landlord of the Queen Vic – not, as in this case, the landlord's little brother.
(5) The Mirror also said that even Clarkson’s “most sulky fans” should find a lot to like about the show after his departure and the Telegraph welcomed Evans and co’s conservative approach.
(6) In the horse-related fatalities, the most common cause of accident was that the horse bolted or reared, causing the rider to fall off the horse or the cart or sulky.
(7) Updated at 7.45pm BST 7.35pm BST Asked on ITV about his pre-match team-talk, Mourinho reveals that he's giving his side the sulky wife treatment: "No words ... my silence is a good way for them to understand how I feel".
(8) Only rarely do we see a gem such as the glorious Quentin Tarantino interview, where he shouted at Krishnan Guru-Murthy : “I’m shutting your butt down!” As a rule, in print media, it’s your word against theirs regarding any sulky, ill-mannered, ball-stabbing shenanigans.
(9) This isn't the charming hero we're used to seeing Pitt play; he's jowly and sulky and racked with a sense of failure, a threatening and disciplinarian family presence.
(10) In a small room off the tunnel at Wycombe’s ground, as a tea urn belched steam into the freezing January air, he bemoaned, in his characteristically sulky way, a recruitment policy that had left him overburdened with attacking players but bereft of defensive cover.
(11) Brando was Johnny the biker in The Wild One (1953), a very camp figure, a gay icon, but a sulky kid who, when asked "What are you rebelling against?
(12) But in the case of Sulky Batman 3.0, it's way too po-faced.
(13) That sounds like a full-time job to me – try employing your sulky teenager or dog to do it for you.
(14) All those years spent in the dark, believing that colleagues were putting up with that sulky sourness in order to squeeze every moment from the day.
(15) The styles of the two men could not be more different – Ford's emotional careering from sulkiness to rage could not look more different, on TV at least, from Harper's gently superior thin-lipped smile.
(16) The meeting followed a four-year mutual sulky silence prompted by what Peter may (or may not) have said about Christopher being a Stalinist.
(17) Catch-22's author was then a sulky, ill-tempered 37-year old advertising executive in New York, who had thick, short, curly hair, a strong chin and a fleshy nose.
(18) When did your sweetpea become a massive sulky thing?
(19) It could be that their elimination is a liberation and they return to the free-flowing style of qualifying but the mood after the defeat by Nigeria was one of sulkiness and disaffection.