Sentence examples for as a cuckoo from inspiring English sources

With Nature's all-powerful help, I've always hoped to be reborn as a cuckoo, drawn to the nests of strangers.

Ms. Posey, 43, also stars as a cuckoo from cuckoo-ville boss in "Price Check," a comic drama that will have its premiere at the festival.

As a cuckoo sang in a nearby acacia grove recently, its melodic call was punctuated by a more ominous sound, the pounding of South Korean artillery.

At the mid-70s height of the Troubles, Barry operates as a cuckoo in the nest, undertaking a reverse occupation of England by an Irish outsider.

There's "chicken and waffles", which arrives as a cuckoo spit of candyfloss on a stick inside which, like the bluebottle in the spider's web, lurks a chicken nugget.

Accordingly, Mr McCain has abandoned his earlier opposition to Mr Bush's tax cuts and re-emphasised his support for appointing conservative judges.But many activists still regard him as a cuckoo in the nest.

After all, sighting a female senior executive in Switzerland is about as rare as seeing a cuckoo, and the changes at Davos seem to be moving about as fast as boardroom reforms in the U.S.

In order to achieve his amorous designs, Zeus frequently assumed animal forms, such as that of a cuckoo when he ravished Hera, a swan when he ravished Leda, or a bull when he carried off Europa.

Chalet Le Fenil didn't have stuffed sheep grazing in the hallway, like that of his neighbor Valentino; but all else was as Swiss as a Tiffany version of a cuckoo clock, with here and there expressions of wry artistic humor as well as art pieces at once imaginative and enticing.

They begin snacking on the berries as they listen to a cuckoo singing in the distance.

His description of Barclays office politics, as BZW grew like a cuckoo in the nest, is instructive, terrifying and wonderfully entertaining.