Sentences with phrase «as fop»

He is a womanizer, has loose morals, and emerges as a fop, a dandy, a mere boy compared to Anna.

That image of Honeyghan as fop might have amused Bumphus, the 28 -1-1 former WBA junior welterweight champion, had he chanced to see it.

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I have felt the freedom now for so long a time that I am sure of my relation toward it; and I could no more harbor any of the thieving and depressing influences that once I nursed as a heritage of humanity than a fop would voluntarily wallow in a filthy gutter.

The windswept, bumbling fop that is Boris Johnson (who somehow currently presides as the Mayor of London) has seen fit to approve Tottenham's plans to redevelop White Hart Lane into a 56,000 capacity stadium by turning the current North Stand around and building out into the vacant car - park situated directly behind it.

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive (FOP) is a rare, but devastating genetic disease where bone is grown within soft tissue, such as skeletal muscle.

Most importantly for individuals with FOP, the study identifies HIF - 1α as a therapeutic target — knowledge that will likely contribute to the development of more effective treatments for FOP and related common disorders of heterotopic ossification.

The company tested that potential therapy, a type of protein known as a monoclonal antibody, on mice with their own form of FOP and lo and behold, they stopped growing unwelcome new bone.

In studies of cells, the team was surprised to learn that a family of ligands they had never considered as relevant to FOP, called activins, were switching on the mutant form of ACVR1; activins typically curb signaling by the normal receptor.

Kaplan's research suggested that FOP had an inflammatory component — and, as it happened, one of the activin ligands, called activin A, was involved in inflammation.

Twenty years after he first stumbled on FOP, Economides and his colleagues report today that the gene mutation shared by 97 % of people with the disease can trigger its symptoms in a manner different than had been assumed — through a single molecule not previously eyed as a suspect.

The balance of expression of mutant and wild - type ACVR1 protein is likely to affect ligand binding dynamics, receptor oligomerization, internalization, and / or activation of downstream signaling pathways, as well as receptor response to environmental triggers that are clinical features of the natural history of FOP.

However, malformation of skeletal bones during embryogenesis also occurs in FOP patients and illustrates that the underlying genetic mutation occurs in a gene with functional importance in regulating chondro - osseous differentiation during embryonic skeletal development as well as in adult musculoskeletal tissues.

With that, Tarantino brought out the star - studded cast with whom he'd rehearsed the first draft script for three days: Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis Warren, Kurt Russell as the cruel bounty hunter John Ruth, Tim Roth as the English «bit of a fop» Oswaldo Mobray, Amber Tamblyn as Daisy Domergue, Walton Goggins as Chris Mannix, Michael Madsen as John Gage, Bruce Dern as Confederate Gen. Smithers, James Parks as stagecoach driver O.B., Denis Menochet as the Frenchman Bob, Dana Gourrier as Minnie, Zoe Bell as Six Horse Judy and James Remar as Jody.

I have to make the movie work, and Kevin Bacon with a ponytail and a cravat dressed as an 18th - century fop will look ridiculous»... Shaw walks the finest line, even if he did have that look in all the comics.

Michael Sheen («Masters and Johnson «-RRB--- as Boldwood, Bathsheba's lovelorn neighbor — is also strong, but when is Sheen not good... Unfortunately, there is a weak link in the cast, and that is Tom Sturridge (On the Road)-- as Sergeant Troy — who in the book is supposed to be such hot stuff that he causes the independent Bathsheba to lose her head, yet here comes across as a dewy - eyed fop.

Much of that is down to Hugh Grant's effortless performance as Charles, the loveless fop whose route to a woman's heart includes quoting The Partridge Family and saying «gosh» a lot.

Earl came to FOP as a result of his owner passing away.

Of course, we also need volunteers to help staff our FOP events, as well the FOP booth at community events like Fiesta Hermosa.

In addition, FOP promotes the use of Hermosa Beach parks to the community and promotes the parks as a valuable resource to the city's residents and visitors.

He had grown his hair long and no longer had the bleached Rod Stewart do, but he wore a short beard and a pearl drop earring in one ear, which gave him the air of a 16th - century courtier and put me in mind of a portrait that hangs in Tate Britain — Marcus Gheeraerts's Captain Thomas Lee, fancifully kitted out as half fop, half bare - legged warrior.

The important point is that a man wearing shorts with a blazer comes across as a foppish fool as well as a foolish fop, while a man wearing a dashiki / barong tagalog / guayabera and trousers looks elegant, entirely appropriate for business, weddings, high - end parties and serenading.

Mr. Sisson currently serves as General Counsel to the Colorado State Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police («FOP»).