“At a spankingly spruced-up Corran Park, the home crowd were roaring hoarsely inside the opening minute.”

“Stylish prints, an Art Nouveau chandelier and some antique bits of furniture ensure that the £12.5m refit doesn't look too spankingly brand new.”

“Price's manipulations of cup forms, variously geometric and biomorphic, amounted to a surprise attack on the history and the aesthetics of modern art, spankingly refreshed and made the artist's own.”

“It was one of those spanking bright days when the world seemed to have been washed clean by the wind and rain.”