Sentence examples for maunder from inspiring English sources

As a portrait of male friendship, the "Trip" films are a triumph of the lean British comic style over the maunder and the mush of American bromance — Jason Segel and Seth Rogen pinching each other's blubber.

This is also, by the way, a chance for me to maunder on about what it was like when I was younger.

I remember, my Papa he couldn't cook but he was a wonderful critic and we learned a lot.' They both maunder on for what feels like several hours about this wonderful patriarchal peasant society where the men spend all their time talking about food, and the women spend all their time preparing it.

Or maunder, letting itself down like rain into a river immersed in getting on with what it separates: the sulk of damp soil; the stiff articulation of the shore, the giddy vowels sprayed over the drag and ebb of voices leaking through the rain over the town.

We now understand this better and see it as a sign of the wild fluctuations which occurred in the approach to and during the Little Ice Ages of low solar activity which caused the Jet stream shifts and cold contrasting (but sometimes very warm) weather in temperate latitudes - eg mid-late 1600s (Maunder minimum) and early 1800s (Dalton minimum).

For a translator, even one as experienced as Michael Hofmann, this book cannot have been easy, not so much on account of the Berlin dialect - "Wat jibt's denn Neuet?" rather than "Was gibt es denn Neues?" - but because of the sometimes slapdash German, the scenes that maunder or run out of puff, and the garish palette of effects.

Russell was forced to resign in 1895 when she married Edward Walter Maunder, her boss in the Photographic and Spectroscopic Department of the Observatory.

I had noted the practice when putting the Observatory's 1894 journals online, and later wrote about it and an article by E. Walter Maunder, one of the Observatory's assistants, on "Making a Spider Line Reticule".

'It's normal biosecurity,' says Andrew Maunder, commercial director of Lloyd Maunder Ltd ('West Country family butchers since 1898'), handing me a sealed polythene bag with a zip-up protective suit inside.

'We're in it together,' says Andrew Maunder - 'the consumer, buying out of ignorance; the supermarkets, buying out of ignorance; and me, the producer, thinking I'm clever and saying I'll do it cheaper.

That whole chain of events is wrong, and I would not want to be a part of that.' Brave words, but why does Lloyd Maunder persist in growing standard birds?