laurence
Physics. a shimmering effect seen over a hot surface, such as a pavement or roadway, on a clear and calm day, caused by the irregular refraction of light.: Compare scintillation (def. 4).
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a male given name, form of Lawrence.
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How to use laurence in a sentence
laurence and Temeraire must learn how their partnership changes their roles, both in society and in war.
8 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books That Deserve a Screen Adaptation | Leigh Butler | February 3, 2022 | TimeJust after the new year, laurence penned “Atomic Power Being Tamed to Turn Industry’s Wheels,” looking back at 1953 as the year marking a transition from military to peaceful atomic energy, as if that had been the intent all along.
The Disneyfication of Atomic Power - Issue 107: The Edge | Jacob Darwin Hamblin | October 6, 2021 | NautilusSubplots begin to pile atop one another as laurence dodges one potential scandal and gets out ahead of another, using it to a publicity advantage.
With ‘Roadkill,’ PBS invites you to watch a narcissist politician who gets away with everything. How does that grab you? | Hank Stuever | October 30, 2020 | Washington PostHis first theater role was as Friar laurence in a UVA production of Romeo and Juliet.
Ben McKenzie’s Journey From Reluctant Teen Idol on ‘The O.C.’ to Sheriff of ‘Gotham’ | Marlow Stern | November 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTlaurence Fishburne is the titular character in the 1995 film of Othello.
Somewhere in the Afterlife, laurence Sterne must have been tickled to see his fiendish book infused with new life.
Crazy Cartography: Artists and Writers Conjure a Slew of Imaginative Maps | Lauren Elkin | April 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy editor, the renowned laurence Gandar, called me to his office to be questioned.
Mandela, My Source: One Journalist’s Memory of Clandestine Meetings | Benjamin Pogrund | December 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe's a live wire, laurence: very, very intelligent and he can keep a whole unit bubbling along.
Meet ‘Inspector Lewis’: Kevin Whately on ‘Morse,’ John Thaw, and the End of the Series | Jace Lacob | June 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTJohn laurence Berti, a learned monk of Tuscany, died; author of about 20 quarto volumes of divinity.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel Munselllaurence de Cinq-Cygne struggled valiantly against a cunning and redoubtable police-agency, the soul of which was Corentin.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophelaurence Corsini was elected pope by the conclave, after it had sat four months.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellAn old and trusted servant, thoroughly devoted to his mistress, laurence de Cinq-Cygne, whose fortunes he had always followed.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheShe was conscious of the notion expressed by Friar laurence: "These violent delights have violent ends."
Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy
British Dictionary definitions for Laurence
/ (ˈlɒrəns) /
Margaret, full name Jean Margaret Laurence, 1926–87, Canadian novelist and short story writer; her novels include The Stone Angel (1964)
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