Sentences with word «entendre»
"Entendre" is a French word that means "to understand" or "to realize." It is often used in English to refer to a word or phrase that has a double meaning or can be understood in two different ways. Full definition
Debt overhang and ongoing deleveraging on the part of firms and households are the main culprits as well as higher structural unemployment and the stultifying double entendre of more or less permanently high taxes and excessive regulation relative to our economic competitors.
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The basic liturgy of liberalism is the Festival of Reason, which in 1793 placed a Goddess of Reason (who may or may not have been a prostitute conscripted for the occasion, in one of the mocking double entendres of Providence) on the holy altar in the Church of Our Lady in Paris.
Throughout all of these works, Ward treats the word «till» with double entendre in both noun and verb form, representing both a receptacle for capital, and allusion to the hidden or unacknowledged labor required in its acquisition.
The size of your overhang (double entendre intended) is a measure of your ability to withstand a reduction in income.
«But I think we also liked the idea that a lot of these artists are creating these worlds, these almost cell - like environment spaces, and that they are reflective of the world or their own life, so in a way the title could have this kind of double entendre for us.»
Sugru also has a couple of great graphics on their Joy of Fix page, The Joy of Fix: A Sugru Guide to Fixing, and The Joy of Sugru, both of which are safe for work, but are filled with double entendres about the joy that comes from having a fulfilling fix life.
The double entendre title represents not only the end of mankind but is also the name of the bar at the end of a pub crawl, friends — Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan...
The double entendre meaning of «couch» is illuminated by Rabbi Judah's ancient remark that Jerusalem men were lewd: «One would say to his colleague, «On what did you dine today?
There is only one guy in the game, as one of the hosts it's his job to fill the airwaves with as many double entendres as possible.
Your message goes from mundane to a triple entendre with a single flipped word.
(Nice double entendre there).
Am I the only one who is seriously creeped out by the idea of hearing a sexy woman's voice making doubles entendres while I'm reeling in a freaking fish?
Eventually this crew is joined by Odessa (Gabourey Sidibe), a Jamaican housekeeper at the hotel who's a whiz at safecracking (and double - entendre wisecracking).
As written by Dean Lorey and directed by Bob Balaban, the film never rises above the level of double - entendre humor regarding the eating of human flesh.
Tomorrow Never Dies was better, mainly because of the presence of a great villain in Jonathan Pryce's media mogul, and had the staples of any Bond movie — great action, gadgets, beautiful women, double entendres left and right.
Installations featuring these works are often titled with a double entendre related to musical notation, audio devices, and sound constructs, such as Higher Resonance, Tone, and Absorb / Diffuse.
She could be a cohort, though, or an Imperial entanglement (Double entendre not intended, but noted all the same).
«It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it,» said Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries, who is taking the stage at Austin's South by Southwest (SXSW) to explain how this double entendre applies to big data.
What if Clare Fergusson were a single male pastor (say, a Southern Baptist) having regular lunch dates with a married woman in his church and whispering double - entendres into the telephone?
The double entendre continues in Jabez's prayer as an adult, «Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from hurt and harm» («b, «my affliction,» «my ouch,» that is, his obesity).
Double entendres work for me.
But City are not invincible (double entendre DEFINITELY intended).
He proceded to post several of these, including one of the (fully clothed) congressman with his two cats that featured a double entendre headline.
Plus, this was clearly a double entendre used in a somewhat casual environment... so how is this even news?
But sex addiction is particularly hard to talk about (agh, double entendre alert!)
References to sex and cute entendres are best avoided in online personals.
Characters in sitcoms that thrive on double entendre jokes showing they are always on the prowl to score.
The plot is fun, the visuals and music are great, and the jokes and double entendres land well.
She puts a spin on her own grinning innocence, relishing the groaning double entendres like «She'd never had her ticket punched before.»
There are lines («My tears are real — you are fake») that made me laugh days after, and Vitaly mutters some kind of double entendre halfway through that I missed and wish I hadn't.
The rules in Hollywood for animated movies are that good animals come from adorable species and children are the primary audience, despite rote efforts at adult entendre.
Sure, it all conforms to the production code enforced back then, with just a little entendre slipping through, but that doesn't make it toothless or corny.
The Double Entendre Game!
by Walter Chaw There's just no currency in deriding James Bond for being a clichéd, doddering, misogynistic boy's club that trundles into the new millennium with the same entendres, leering, and boom - boom the franchise has ridden for four decades now.
The sexual dialogue is, in fact, pretty tame, mostly relying on double entendres even Mae West might have rejected in her prime.
Sometimes, nutrition comes in unlikely packages — but before we make this subversive animated film sound like a pile of spinach, know that, for the most part, it's exactly the R - rated single - entendre sex fest the title implies.
The double entendres now flow both ways, and most of them fall flat.
As the tagline reads «No Nuts, No Glory» you can expect a number of double entendres based around male genitalia.
Universal has been promoting «Fifty Shades Freed» in recent months with the single - entendre tagline, «Don't Miss the Climax.»
I also love how the dialogue is laced with all those double entendres reminiscent of 007.
Pope.L's double entendre text drawing, Black People Are Trying, seemed to comment on the other exhibited artists as well as the election of Barack Obama as the country's first black chief executive.
Layered wordplay, gesture, repetition and double - entendres accumulate to multi-faceted compositions that reflect and loop back on themselves as fabricated truths about relationships, neurosis and everyday life.
This, I was told, was called Smoking Circle (after Baldessari), 2013, her double entendre duet with the California artist known for obliterating parts of his images with similar bright circles.
The double entendre invites us to consider the logic of distinctions between monument and ruin, how we live and how we die, how we create and whom we destroy.