Sentence examples for mackintosh from inspiring English sources

Pevsner, a funny foreigner in a shabby mackintosh, was ill at ease in country houses, and he sometimes omitted to penetrate up their drives, leaving certain treasures overlooked.

A quick glance at the clouds flitting across the sky each morning is usually enough to decide whether to leave the brolly behind or grab a mackintosh and galoshes.

The mackintosh garment was named for him.

The word mackintosh has become a general term for any raincoat.

The mackintosh, as it came to be known, was greatly improved when vulcanized rubber, which resisted temperature changes, became available in 1839.

The fabric used for a mackintosh was made waterproof by cementing two thicknesses of it together with rubber dissolved in a coal-tar naphtha solution.

As a state-school educated, regionally-accented, mackintosh-wearing commoner he personified the break with the old elite.

"[Mackintosh] was driven by a lifelong search for new forms in architecture and technology and was never a copyist," says Alan Dunlop, a Mack alumnus and professor of architecture at Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University.

Her BBC film Care (2000), starring Steven Mackintosh, was a fictionalised account of sexual abuse in children's homes, and won Bafta and Prix Italia awards.

West End musicals are still an unpredictable investment: this year saw the premature closure of Betty Blue Eyes, backed by Cameron Mackintosh, based on Alan Bennett's A Private Function and featuring an animatronic pig with the voice of Kylie Minogue.

Meanwhile, the short view column by James Mackintosh looks at the Chinese market, which has virtually doubled over the last year; half of the stocks on the Shenzhen exchange trade on a prospective price-earnings ratio of more than 50.