(1) Rachel Cooke 7 THAI FOOD David Thompson (Pavillion Books, 2002) Buy it Australian chef David Thompson first went to Thailand almost accidentally when some holiday plans fell through, and was smitten by the country and its food.
(2) Molly Smitten-Downes, United Kingdom Facebook Twitter Pinterest At first glance, Molly Smitten-Downes' reassuringly double-barrelled name and cheery Leicestershire visage makes her the ideal Eurovision voting option for viewers desperate for Britain's immediate withdrawal from the EU.
(3) Vogue describes Miliband as smitten too, but in a more buttoned-up way: "She applies intellect but also psychology to the dossiers that she's studying," he said of Clinton.
(4) Some were so smitten by the island that they bought homes there, including Joseph P Kennedy, father of future president John F Kennedy.
(5) We were instantly smitten and eventually moved in together, sharing 18 happy years.
(6) Sharif later admitted that he had briefly imagined himself in love with Streisand, and also recalled being smitten by Ava Gardner , his co-star in Mayerling (1968), in which he brought a suitable intensity to the doomed Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, and Gardner, with some incongruity, played his mother.
(7) I don’t know how long I shall survive, having been smitten with this disease.
(8) As the film opens, Plath (played with consummate Gwyneth Paltrowness by Gwyneth Paltrow) has been smitten by the brash, handsome Hughes (played with verve and dash by Daniel Craig, who resembles the young Richard Burton, but seems a bit old for these scenes).
(9) Six years after the Steve Earle-produced Day After Tomorrow , she is making tentative plans to record another album (“I’m constantly aware of the need to be current and to make sure that the next album is always better than the last one.”) There is also the concert circuit, with which she is currently smitten.
(10) This year's British entrant, Molly Smitten-Downes, managed slightly better, her 40 points earning her a 17th place.
(11) Meanwhile Little Em'ly had been quite forgotten, as I was now smitten by Mr Spenlow's daughter, Dora, the most adorable and stupid girl you could ever hope to meet.
(12) I was smitten from the moment I saw her and swore to myself she was the girl for me, even though I was only 10 years old.
(13) Fox and Pollan met when she played his girlfriend on Family Ties and he was helplessly smitten when she told him off one day for being rude.
(14) Smitten-Downes had been among those tipped to place highly with self-penned song Children Of The Universe and wowed a lively audience in this year's host city of Copenhagen.
(15) Madonna Ashcombe House, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire The American superstar was smitten by the 18th-century, six-bedroom manor house when she first visited it, and immediately offered £10m for the 1,200-acre estate.
(16) The restaurants in New York are quite magnificent and I've met this charming actress called Ethel with whom I'm smitten.
(17) They fell easily into conversation and before long, Jenny was smitten.
(18) This interpretation leads us to the conclusion that, at the time of writing, Gramsci was in full possession of all his mental faculties, although worried by his long imprisonment and smitten by a profound disillusion as a result of the deformation of the "socialist" system.
(19) Smitten by the films' star, Kimberly Williams, he asked her to appear in the video; they fell in love, married in 2003, and have two sons.
(20) Stannis is quietly smitten, as most men would be by a malevolent force with great boobs spilling out of a corset whose hobbies include shagging, bleak threats and setting fire to massive piles of stuff on beaches.
Stricken
Definition:
(p. p. & a.) Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
(n.) Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21.
(v. t.) Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.
() of Strike
Example Sentences:
(1) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(2) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
(3) US military aircraft and personnel arrived in Nepal on Sunday and were due to begin helping ferry relief supplies to stricken areas outside the capital.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An aerial view of the stricken Dharahara tower in Kathmandu.
(5) Advancing to the edge of the Ireland penalty area, he tries to pick out Thierry Henry, but his pass is wayward and a panic-stricken, back-pedalling Ireland defence clears.
(6) A brief image from the television feed before the gravity of the situation became apparent – as a physio reaches and tries to turn over the stricken midfielder – was widely available, especially in postings from outside the UK, where the match was shown on other networks.
(7) The EU, ECB and IMF, the troika of bodies keeping the debt-stricken Greek economy afloat, have signalled in no uncertain terms that they want some €8bn of the nearly €12bn package to come from pension and pay cuts, arguing that this will be the fastest way to get the best results.
(8) The leader, a veteran communist, went into the discussions saying their focus would be the EU-IMF financial assistance Cyprus has sought as a result of its banking system’s heavy exposure to debt-stricken Greece.
(9) Some health officials believe the blood of survivors may help Ebola stricken patients fight the disease.
(10) The CDC and other health agencies have been operating for months on the assumption that Zika causes brain defects, and they have been warning pregnant women to use mosquito repellent, avoid travel to Zika-stricken regions and either abstain from sex or rely on condoms.
(11) Torres realises his opponents is stricken and streams past him and into the area.
(12) BP has begun drilling two relief wells to halt the oil a day flowing out of the stricken Macondo well.
(13) London's mayor said the single currency had been responsible for having "exacerbated" the international financial crisis and warned the coalition government that Britain should not be expected to contribute to any new bailout of the crisis-stricken Greek economy .
(14) The family lived near the Cité Soleil slum where hundreds, possibly thousands, have been stricken.
(15) Shops in Greece must be free to offer buy-one-get-one-free deals and determine their own product sell-by dates as part of wide ranging reforms to regulations that have prevented the debt-stricken country from recovering after the financial crash, according to a leading thinktank.
(16) The lymphocytes of cancer-stricken persons showed an evident rise of the sialic acid content, combined with a shift of the sialic acid distribution to higher O-acetylated derivatives, as compared to the controls.
(17) Last week, Brown signed into law a more-than-$1bn plan to fast-track emergency relief to drought-stricken cities and communities, including food aid and drinking water.
(18) Kehazaei’s grief-stricken mother, Goldone, said through tears: “I want to donate his organs and I’m worried his heart will fail as well if we keep waiting.” She said the family was “furious” with the Australian government.
(19) Being from poverty-stricken rural communities, many would have been in poor physical condition.
(20) In an attempt to discourage potential migrants, European ministers cancelled a naval operation aimed at rescuing stricken smugglers’ boats.