Sentence examples for with a fillip from inspiring English sources
Its distribution network and prowess in areas such as big-data analytics make it an ideal partner for Apple, which faces stiff competition in the corporate arena from the likes of Google and Microsoft.Both partners in the alliance could do with a fillip.
Sometimes she did it with a fillip of observation ("I got onto the subway. A tomb for people's eyes"); sometimes with a flick of humor ("It doesn't really make your mouth water, does it, lentil soup?" Gordon asks. "Something watery — something brown — and hot carrots.
The story of Motown trying to find Marvin Gaye a duet partner, which hovers in the background of the new reissue "Marvin Gaye & His Women," is one of the great melodramas of American pop music — vexed, tragic, ultimately triumphant, and with a fillip of false optimism at the end.
It was witty, with a fillip of transgression, when Amy Winehouse sang, "They tried to make me go to rehab/I said no, no, no" on her album "Back to Black," which was originally released in 2006 and has brought her six Grammy Award nominations, including Album of the Year.
We first encounter the flamboyantly shameless would-be king in his cups, scrunched into a leather chair, with a wine bottle at his feet and a purple paper party crown askew on his head, while a TV screen behind him broadcasts footage of the King's son Edward, Duke of York, and his victorious army returning home — a narrative of success that Richard clicks off with a fillip of disgust.
At least Cairns, who must at the moment wonder why he hurried back from his one-day stint with New Zealand, gave Notts a fillip with a performance of twinke-toed ruthlessness, striking seven powerful fours in his 39.
China's efforts to make the yuan an international currency on a par with the US dollar are to receive a fillip with the International Monetary Fund widely expected to add it to a special basket of global currencies.
Plain dresses, given a fillip with epaulettes disembodied from the traditional trench coat, might be good for the boardroom.
Sharing a currency with weaklings will be a fillip in global markets, but for business the euro zone will matter ever less.
The trunk, which holds the fuel tank and a spare tire (which Trossi removed from the trunk top), finishes in a fillip with a Batmobile-style swooping wasp tail.
Crostini spreads — ricotta topped with fresh peas and a fillip of pea purée; artichoke hearts on a bed of whorled potato; a meld of pecorino, olives and sun-dried tomatoes — arrive via a rolling pin inset with tiny copper pots, a presentation at once absurd and adorable.
