(1) He adds: "Educating Essex was all part of that explosion of all things Essex – Towie and fake celebrities.
(2) It’s more important than ever to be quicker to the punch,” notes Lee, “to have better scouts and have a better line in to what’s buzzworthy in the UK.” However, it remains unclear whether a bigger corporate deal for ABC or its parent Disney is in prospect, like those made by other US companies this year (MTV owner Viacom’s Channel 5 acquisition, Liberty Global and Discovery buying Hollyoaks and Towie producer All3Media).
(3) For most countries, non-native content is nothing unusual, as anyone who has found Towie improbably belching itself out of a hotel telly abroad can confirm, but the assumption had reigned for many years that anything featuring foreign tongues would make Britons squirm away in horror.
(4) Scott Mills: Weekend Anthems is available from iTunes now Mick Norcross (Towie) Photograph: Rex Towie's answer to Brian Potter 1 Nando's vending machine Chicken on Tap!
(5) It's almost saying you can be like this, you don't have to look glossy and like you're off Towie [The Only Way is Essex]."
(6) Also in his sights are the game's governing body ("Just received my weekly warning letter from the FA headquarters"); and the likes of Alan Sugar, former QPR manager Neil Warnock and the entire cast of TOWIE .
(7) Wrestling perfected staged reality years before Towie GH The most offensive thing you can say to a wrestler is that wrestling is fake.
(8) "And in any case shows such as Towie and Geordie Shore are popular for the same reason as Big Brother – characters."
(9) A place that reveres not achievement-free celebrity, but astonishing skill, granite determination and good grace, the land not of TOWIE but of Bradley Wiggins, Nicola Adams and Laura Trott.
(10) Going TOWIE Low on animal costumes and high on fake tans, rarely will you see a better turned out, carefully coiffured and perfectly made-up crowd than at Chelmsford.
(11) W hat I like about this site,” says Grayson Perry as he surveys a scrappy bit of land in Wrabness, north-east Essex, “is they wouldn’t film Towie here.” Flagrant structured-reality slander aside, the largely excellent Grayson Perry’s Dream House follows the process of building a fully habitable and rentable house to Grayson’s artistic specifications, as commissioned by Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project (but don’t let that put you off).
(12) 3 Gaffer tape To put over some of the TOWIE cast's mouths when they talk in a rude manner.
(13) It's not "enhanced" reality, in the sense that Towie (The Only Way is Essex) is, it's just plain reality; but there is a sense of hyper-reality about it.
Toy
Definition:
(v. t.) A plaything for children; a bawble.
(v. t.) A thing for amusement, but of no real value; an article of trade of little value; a trifle.
(v. t.) A wild fancy; an odd conceit; idle sport; folly; trifling opinion.
(v. t.) Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime.
(v. t.) An old story; a silly tale.
(v. t.) A headdress of linen or woolen, that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women of the lower classes; -- called also toy mutch.
(v. i.) To dally amorously; to trifle; to play.
(v. t.) To treat foolishly.
Example Sentences:
(1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(2) The "Dream Toys" for Christmas list includes a few old favourites alongside some new, and sparkly, additions.
(3) In a statement, Fisher Price said: “We recently learned of a security vulnerability with our Fisher-Price WiFi-connected Smart Toy Bear.
(4) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
(5) An observational study was made of 1-2-year-old children, and of mentally handicapped children functioning at a similar level, to determine the extent to which they involved themselves in play with toys and other objects and the extent to which their day was "empty".
(6) The only 2 significant sex-of-parent x sex-of-child effects occurred at 18 months; fathers gave fewer positive reactions to boys engaging in female-typical toy play, and mothers gave more instruction to girls when they attempted to communicate.
(7) Incidental teaching and traditional discrete-trial procedures were used to teach two children with autism the expressive use of two color adjectives to describe preferred toys and food items.
(8) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
(9) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).
(10) Soft organic material (meat, cucumber peels) was found in four patients, chicken bones in six, pins and needles in six, other nonorganic materials (toys, stone, broken thermometer) in six.
(11) There are signs that Disney intends to respect its expensive new toy.
(12) However, when toys were absent, there were no significant differences in visual attention between ADHD and normal boys.
(13) White is doing his own bit to turn back the clock: at his gigs, he enforces a strict ban on the audience shooting pictures or video; at home, he only allows his children – Scarlett, eight, and Hank, six – to play with mechanical toys.
(14) Cars, furniture, books, dishes, TVs, highways, buildings, jewellery, toys and even electricity would not exist without water.
(15) Although it remains unclear why he chose to place the muddled woman in a kitchen – clinging to her mug and surrounded by children's toys – as opposed to say, in a laboratory or a truck, he claims all the words were authentically spoken by "women in dozens of focus groups around the country", prior to being stitched together in this latest triumph for the fashionable, verbatim school of drama.
(16) Many parents think hard about what kind of books to buy for their children; mull over the suitability of various TV shows and films; and compare the educational and entertainment value of different toys.
(17) That found parents play an important role in the choice of toys and “they consider construction toys to stimulate creativity and can be used differently each time a child plays with them”, the ONS said.
(18) The provision of structure in the form of thematically related toy sets, instructions, and modeling did not reduce the discrepancy between demonstrated play behaviors of toddlers with SLI-E and their normally developing peers.
(19) Now they’re having to downsize, changing cities and dispose of all their toys, like their big trucks and Ski-doos, but nobody wants to buy that stuff because they can’t afford it either.” “It’s very depressing,” says Seibel, who’s still unemployed despite sending several hundreds of resumes, including to McDonalds, where he was told he was overqualified.
(20) Parents' initial nonverbal responses to the toys, however, were more positive when the toys were stereotyped for the child's and parent's gender than when they were not.