| 单词 | parlour game |
| 例句 | A bored eternal, dressed as a Chinese mandarin, he lured unwitting space travellers to his domain to play apparently innocent parlour games with lethal consequences. Michael Gough obituary 2011-03-17T19:38:43Z The whole thing is a parlour game with a budget of millions and absolutely zero jeopardy. Off with their heads! Why The Masked Singer is TV's most brutal gladiatorial contest 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z It may one day be a popular parlour game. Hare v Kinnock 2010-04-12T19:00:00Z It's sometimes brilliant – but as another middle-aged, middle-class sleight-of-hand expert takes to the stage, the sense of it all being a cosy parlour game is hard to avoid. Trick questions: Dynamo and Penn and Teller have brought very different magic styles to our screens 2011-07-29T09:44:00Z For each film, it might be a parlour game for critics to try to distinguish one twin's work from another. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z It's a whole new parlour game for movie nerds. Awakening to the commonest film title 2010-12-29T13:24:00Z But you can also treat the concept as a parlour game – one easily applied to film. What if Star Wars had never existed? 2011-03-18T14:19:16Z The question of who wrote O has become the Washington parlour game of the winter. O, A Presidential Novel sparks search for anonymous author 2011-01-19T21:25:12Z But as a digital parlour game, it is good literary fun. Can Inkvite rejuvenate collaborative fiction? 2013-04-21T13:30:01Z The hunt for these killers will only ever be a parlour game played for our own entertainment and at the victims’ expense. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, why are dead women’s bodies still being used as entertainment? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Photograph: Hulton Getty In his 1970s campus comedy, Changing Places, David Lodge invents a memorable literary parlour game called Humiliation in which players confess to embarrassing gaps in their reading. Share your literary humiliations 2010-07-19T12:26:00Z I'm not convinced it ever truly did stem from one, really, with its mix of 1950s formality and oddly polite Victorian parlour game, yet it was a gentle, endearing illusion. Some radio voices never age. Sadly, their owners do 2010-08-04T08:52:00Z When manic, Leigh would sometimes play a parlour game called "Ways to kill babies", in which her guests were invited to mime unusual ways to dispose of an unwanted child. Bipolar memoirs: What have I done? 2013-04-26T06:30:11Z Marvellous, funny and affecting, the Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale is much more than a parlour game. Venice Biennale: how much is that fox in the mini-mart? 2013-06-02T18:30:01Z Participants were then either sent home to bed wearing a sleep-tracking device, or kept awake in the laboratory all night with activities including parlour games. Junk food cravings linked to lack of sleep, study suggests 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Other members of her family have also invited visitors for the weekend, though, and as the bewildered guests soon discover, when it comes to playing parlour games, the Blisses are champions. This week's new theatre 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Ali Catterall It's always a fun parlour game: name the things we do now that, a few decades hence, we'll regard with the same bafflement as we do, say, smoking on Tube trains. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z Speaking to the Times, he said he will be holding on to his current job and accused Tory MPs of playing "political parlour games". This is not the time to change Conservative leader. minister argues 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Assessing celebrity bookcases is a pandemic parlour game. Why we’re obsessed with Zoom backdrops: from Anna Wintour to Meryl Streep 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The parlour game of the week for Washington pundits, therefore, involved trying to weigh whether Amash’s candidacy would hurt Biden or Trump more. 'Are you a spoiler?': why critics fear Amash's Libertarian bid may ensure a Trump win 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z What is a revisionist colour sidebar take on the managerial achievements of José Mourinho, but the kind of counterfactual “parlour game” EH Carr, chronicler of the early Soviet Union, would have raged against? Everything exists in a vacuum in the month that never was | Barney Ronay 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z In the parlour game Six Degrees of Separation contestants are challenged to find the shortest path between an arbitary actor and Kevin Bacon. The best and worst celebrity isolation videos 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z It didn’t feature among the parlour games of the 19th century. Question time: my life as a quiz obsessive 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z His first review, of a thriller by Francis Durbridge at the Fortune theatre in London, began with a wry observation: “The conventional stage whodunit is about as exciting as a vicarage parlour game.” Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington to step down 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Divining, assessing and adjudicating the mental health of this US president has become more than just a parlour game. Donald Trump’s sanity is not the question. The real issue is how he got into office | Gary Younge 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Truth or consequences, a parlour game in which players are penalised for dishonesty or wrongdoing, is mostly fun – but it also reflects a broad moral consensus about the unacceptability of lying. In Moscow, Riyadh and Washington, this is the age of the shameless lie 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z Though there was no doubt plenty of competitive energy in their real-life friendships, there was always enough success to go around to make envy just a parlour game. Ian McEwan: ‘Who’s going to write the algorithm for the little white lie?’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Another Washington parlour game is seeking analogues for Trump in past presidents: the demagoguery and racism of Andrew Jackson, the corruption and mendacity of Richard Nixon, the celebrity and media savvy of Ronald Reagan. Facing Trump, a historian appeals to America's soul: 'I think we'll survive' 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z For players of Washington’s favourite parlour game—predicting where Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between Mr Trump’s campaign team and Russia might end up—this combination of rule-breaking and chaos looks apposite. Was Donald Trump’s campaign too chaotic to pull off a conspiracy? 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Jones’ appointment resolves a succession question that became a kind of parlour game on both sides of the Atlantic after Carter, 68, announced his retirement in September. Vanity Fair: Radhika Jones confirms she'll succeed Graydon Carter as editor 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z The appointment of Jones, 44, will resolve a succession question that became a kind of parlour game for media watchers on both side of the Atlantic after Carter, 68, announced his retirement in September. Radhika Jones to succeed Graydon Carter as Vanity Fair editor, sources say 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Millennial The starting gun on the tedious inter-generational parlour game “Who is going to pay for my house?” From bae to millennial, 11 words that make the heart sink 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Here’s a fun parlour game: play Fully Qualified Survivor to an impressionable friend and tell them its a lost Bowie album, recorded just before Hunky Dory. Michael Chapman: the man who connects Elton, Bowie, Nick Drake and Sonic Youth 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z IT HAS become something of a parlour game among Australian politicians. Bashing the boat people 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Hence the popular parlour game among scientists: speculating on who will get the Nobel prize for impressive discoveries. Reward the forgotten foot soldiers of science 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z "This is why I am Labour right to my fingertips. I'm not interested in machine politicking and Westminster parlour games, but rooted politics - that's about making a real and lasting difference to people's lives." The Owen Smith story - BBC News 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z A favourite parlour game in the Westminster village right now is to name Boris Johnson’s first cabinet, and to ponder which role Michael Gove might occupy. Brexit: how a fringe idea took hold of the Tory party | Matthew d’Ancona 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z But scientists and historians who try to estimate what might have happened if, say, Darwin had fallen off the Beagle and drowned, are often accused of playing parlour games. Second thoughts 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Mr Osborne said talk of leaving the EU was "not some political parlour game", highlighting the recent fall in the value of the sterling to illustrate his point. David Cameron: No prospect of EU vote re-run - BBC News 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Mr Osborne said talk of leaving the EU was "not some political parlour game", highlighting the recent fall in the value of the sterling to illustrate his point, Lord Howard and George Osborne at odds over EU exit - BBC News 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Yet it is based on what is probably the world’s most popular modern parlour game. Death of a troll | Alina Simone 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Related: Utopias, past and present: why Thomas More remains astonishingly radical But utopianism is an academic parlour game precisely because it can be divisive, entertaining and challenging. Free love or genocide? The trouble with Utopias 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Guessing when the referendum on the UK's EU membership will be held is Westminster's current favourite parlour game. EU referendum: Guessing game over poll date continues - BBC News 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Yet this battle may end up wasting precious political capital on a Roman parlour game. Atwitter about Matteo Renzi 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z So it might be a bit of a Westminster parlour game. Who'll be UK's next EU Commissioner? 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The parlour game begins with people being randomly divided into two groups: Mafia and Innocent Civilians. Death of a troll | Alina Simone 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z And with the quincentenary of Thomas More’s Utopia falling this year, the parlour game is again being dusted off. Free love or genocide? The trouble with Utopias 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z An essayist for called him "the Kevin Bacon of terrorism", alluding to a parlour game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which players find different ways Bacon is connected with other actors. The man who 'plotted' America's darkest day 2013-09-11T20:28:54Z Who knew a mannered, genteel parlour game could be such a minefield? The World Snooker Championship is a joy – but turn off your phone first 2013-05-05T14:02:51Z So after the endless speculation and selection parlour games, what to make of Warren Gatland's 2013 British and Irish Lions squad? Gatland's Lions squad has the X factor 2013-04-30T19:32:24Z Unlike the high-powered tech whizzes who play the parlour game, the people who play Epic Mafia tend to be high-school and college students looking for a good way to waste time. Death of a troll | Alina Simone 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z "The origins lie in a kind of parlour game we used to play in the evenings," says Adrien Le Ray, one of the 12 performers. French fun with old rock ballads 2012-10-05T23:25:12Z Predicting the limits of human athletic prowess has been a popular parlour game among number crunchers. Athletic performance: Faster, higher, no longer 2012-08-02T15:10:00Z ONE of Wall Street’s favourite parlour games is to speculate about who will follow Warren Buffett as head of Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway: Unexpected loss 2011-03-31T10:44:34Z Any student of crime statistics knows that these maps are rubbish, since they are based not on the authoritative British crime survey but on a parlour game called "police recorded crime". All the crime map shows up is Whitehall's pointless zest for data 2011-02-03T20:30:01Z Before the Christmas decorations are down thoughts turn to the diminished status of the FA Cup and prompt the annual parlour game of discussing how to revive it. FA Cup seeks ways to inspire revival 2011-01-06T20:49:03Z With all this in mind, picking the City starting XI is the impossible parlour game. Mancini finds that 25 into 11 won't go 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z The debate over timing would look like an irrelevant parlour game. Viewpoint: Who's right in the banking reforms debate? 2010-06-28T20:11:00Z Only the other day I was interested to see an old pack of cards, used for playing a parlour game of Astronomy, in which the name Herschel is used. Astronomical Discovery Raymond was in a sulk, and refused to join in any of the parlour games which were usually resorted to in wet weather. Soldiers of the Queen It must be a good rubber, however, for the parlour game is neither relaxation nor pleasure. Scotch Loch-Fishing It is a favourite performance on the stage, and not seldom tried as a parlour game. Psychology and Social Sanity In another parlour game of a rather interesting kind the youngest in the room begins by saying— "I apprentice my son to a butcher; the first thing he sold was a pound of M." A History of Nursery Rhymes The public debts reached amazing figures, while Negro legislators voted each other wads of public money as a kind of parlour game, amid peals of hearty African laughter. A History of the United States But such people will no doubt be able to claim rebates, and rebating is one of the most healthy and instructive of our British parlour games. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 Table turning as a parlour game is about as stupid and aimless an amusement as I know. Seen and Unseen Bowls, croquet, golf, walking, quoits, billiards, parlour games and quiet gymnastics without apparatus are good, if played in moderation and much more gently than normal people play them. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment "It's important, though, in a way—important to me; and any ways more important than smokin' a pipe an' watchin' you play parlour games." Hocken and Hunken We danced, and then followed songs and parlour games, and it was in the small hours when the merry goodnights were all said and we had retired to rest. My Brilliant Career And then, in a lower voice still, for her niece was now close to her, "The Burnabys look the sort of people who would enjoy a parlour game," she said rather crossly. From out the Vasty Deep In vain I counted sheep getting over a hedge, added a hundred up backward and forward, tried deep breathing, and other little "parlour games." Seen and Unseen He assumes that I have invented a new parlour game, and has been trying to work out the moves. The Red Thumb Mark Here is another little thing that I have worked out, which is superior to parlour games in that it combines their intense excitement with sound out-of-door exercise. Literary Lapses It is, for all the world, like the parlour game of Consequences, wherein each person fills up a form unknown to the others. Without Prejudice For ivory is everywhere an evil thing before which the quest for gold sinks into a parlour game; and when its charms seize such a tribe as the Fans, “conclusions pass their careers.” Travels in West Africa This, which is true of all the churches and republics of history, is also true of the most trivial parlour game or the most unsophisticated meadow romp. Manalive |
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