(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.
Struck
Definition:
(imp.) of Strike
(p. p.) of Strike
() imp. & p. p. of Strike.
Example Sentences:
(1) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(2) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(3) HTC needs to move from being star struck fan to star of its own ads.
(4) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(5) A balance must be struck between meeting the hospital's needs for additional physicians and meeting the needs of the existing medical staff.
(6) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(7) In the case presented, this aided investigators in determining how many bullets actually struck the victim.
(8) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(9) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
(10) Hazard, nominated for the Ballon d’Or earlier in the day, broke away from his industrious defensive running to curl a shot on to the base of the far post early on while Willian struck the crossbar with a free-kick just after the interval.
(11) It is what struck me, too, about Gordon Aikman , a 29-year-old Scot with a terminal diagnosis of motor neurone disease.
(12) A s I watched Camila Batmanghelidjh being mobbed by the small crowd demonstrating about the closure of Kids Company outside Downing Street last week, it struck me that she was more like a character out of children’s book than a real person.
(13) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
(14) It struck the full back's hand, but there was no intent, and the players were very close together.
(15) April 2009 Newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson dies during G20 protests in London after being struck by police.
(16) What always struck me even then as slightly odd was that, regardless of the political complexion of a sect, the behavioural patterns of its leaders were not so different.
(17) London aided Ankara by closing down the Kurdish TV station, MED-TV, in the same month that BAE Systems, Britain's largest arms company, struck an arms deal with Turkey.
(18) Natasha Walter, the feminist author, was struck by the supportive atmosphere of Mumsnet when she was writing Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism , a few years ago.
(19) Hair ignited in room air only when struck repeatedly at high energy, but easily ignited in 100% oxygen.
(20) That's how many times Tony Gwynn struck out during his long career, a total that some players today seem to tally on a ten-game road trip.