(1) Watson answered in a mellifluous computerised voice – think Stephen Hawking with extra zing – and in a neat visual trick its screen avatar changed colour depending on how sure it was about each answer.
(2) • workersplaytime.net Chosen by Sink the Pink co-founders, Glynfamous (Glyn Fussell) and Amy Zing (Amy Redmond) Soho Burlesque Club Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Soho Burlesque Club Soho Burlesque Club – at the Hippodrome Casino – is a properly late-night cabaret experience.
(3) He admits to lacking the entrepreneurial zing of contemporaries such as Jamie Byng of Canongate; as he tells the story of his rise through the ranks, it sounds as if he triumphed by being able to keep his cool when faced with managers who had no feeling for books at all.
(4) It's those "extras" that give Secret Cinema its zing: live performance, music, food, dress-up – all sorts of tricks layered over a main-event screening, the details of which are kept a secret until the last moment.
(5) Their European foray this season has seen them become the first Kazakh side to be guarantee a place in the group stage of a Uefa competition – when Celtic knock them out they go into the glamorous Europa League – and that means Zing!
(6) Just a dash of juice or a sprinkling of zest can bring zing to even the most warming of winter dishes – Betty Bee's rib-sticking stew and Anna Thomson's split peas for example – but it was the fresh simplicity of Erum Gulmann's fruit salad, served with a rich, sweetly spiced Indian yoghurt, that stole my heart.
(7) It’s good to see the government has a plan for knights and dames – where’s their plan for jobs?” said opposition leader Bill Shorten, before yelling “zing” and insisting that deputy opposition leader Tanya Plibersek to “give him some skin”.
(8) The moment was intended to feel surreal, as though you were entering Miles’s mind, but as the door began to swing, a deep rumble erupted into a volley of zings and swishes – those troublesome tape decks – as if the scene had plunged into a battle in outer space.
(9) Since it arrived in a burst of glitter eight years ago, best friends Amy Zing and Glynfamous have turned their event from makeshift east London disco into a lavish, 3,000-capacity megamix of stage shows, live music (Little Mix!
(10) Something I think that women generally struggle with in this industry is saying, ‘Actually, I do this, and I’m good at it, and you need to recognise that.’ So reading nominations from people nominating themselves, and their friends, was really lovely, and also seeing men nominate their peers.” One of the judges, Zing Tsjeng , the UK editor of Broadly, pointed out that compared with other journalism awards a lot of younger women were being nominated.
(11) But there's evidence that the public doesn't find the line so zing-y.
(12) Illustration: Alexander Wells Markram's belief in the need for teamwork is rooted in his own experience as a brain researcher and his conviction that only neuroscience is capable of solving the deeper mysteries of how the electrical signals zinging between neurons produce consciousness and how interferences or malfunctions in those electrical channels produce disordered or "diseased" thinking.
(13) Applying some Eastern zing to the symbol of Welsh pride – the leek – it's supremely healthy, packing in spices, peppers and leeks bursting with flavour into a colourful lip-smacking dish.
(14) Chris Pratt as the rogueish leader and Zoe Saldana (green this time, not blue) zip around in cool ships saving the day, zinging each other with jokes.
(15) Press coverage zings with unlikely stories about Davis – that he howls in his prison cells when the five-times daily call to prayer rings out; that the CIA plans a "Hollywood-style heist" to spring him; that he is the linchpin of the CIA's drone programme.
Zinger
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Reportedly, her teleprompter conked out, inadvertently taking thousands of fresh “Obama Teleprompter” jokes with it, so she ad libbed, ultimately going 10 minutes over her allotted time while hurling out rewarmed zingers and bewildering anecdotes.
(2) "Trickle down government ... is not the answer for America," is obviously one of the famous Mitt Romney Zingers that we have promised.
(3) Still, Farage poses a few rhetorical questions and, as he seems to seek rational discussion instead of comic zingers, so I am happy to answer them here seriously.
(4) You decided to stay home and that’s OK.” But Clinton had a zinger up her sleeve: “I think Donald just criticised me for preparing for this debate.
(5) Although this zinger owes its origins to the fact that Thatcher's gag-writer, Sir Ronald Millar, happened to be a dramatist of the Fry generation, he could expect that the reference would be understood by a significant proportion of the press and the electorate.
(6) He started telling his own variation on the classic in March 2014, and today he delivered his own zinger: Ta-da!
(7) In a tetchy BBC Question Time encounter with Ukip’s Nigel Farage , it was Brand who produced the zinger, with the jibe that his opponent was “a pound-shop Enoch Powell ”.
(8) The story of the Grantham family has reached 1924, and, according to Mrs Hughes, “Downton is catching up with the times we live in.” “That is exactly what I’m afraid of,” replies Carson, suggesting yet more resistance to impending modernity – which, of course, means plenty of opportunity for baffled zingers from the Dowager Countess.
(9) It’s about a set of principles.” He acknowledged his shortcomings, however, by running through the long list of advice he has received of late: some stylistic, like removing his glasses or changing his tie, and some more strategic: “Nail that zinger.
(10) That latter detail unfortunately undermined some of the hilarity of the Snapchat zinger, since complying with a law enforcement directive about which you really have no choice isn’t really that funny.
(11) He saves a zinger for the planted follow us, accusing the ALP of " inter generational theft " 5.14am BST Abbott's third motion of indulgence to acknowledge the death of Paul Ramsay who is described as the creator of a "mighty business empire, but he never lost his soul".
(12) They had seen him, heard the zingers, taken a picture or two, and now they were heading to the parking lot, to get a head start on the traffic.
(13) You can focus on how things look and how they played and who won the zinger-off rather than on the underlying issues.
(14) Glenn looks pleased until Hollywood hits him with an under-baked zinger.
(15) As the candidates deliver their zingers, you can take their words and create your own debate lines.
(16) Updated at 8.38am GMT 8.32am GMT First set: Djokovic 1-1 Wawrinka* (*denotes server) Wawrinka starts with a 217km ace, followed by a zinger that Djokovic connects with but can't control.
(17) Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) Romney walked into that pension zinger.
(18) Obama: While the president generally struggled to get his "zingers" across, over-larding them with too much detail, he did get in a pithy dig about Romney's vague budget proposals which he claimed didn't add up.
(19) Updated at 8.07pm BST 8.00pm BST The Guardian will be live blogging tonight's debate, starting in a few hours, at which point we will subject you to, among others, these shady characters: Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox) "Can I use my zinger now?"
(20) Clearly, the early word that Romney would offer "zingers" was a misdirection, as he avoided most cutesy or canned lines.