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On the topic of rhetoric Machiavelli, in his introduction, stated that “ I have not embellished or crammed this book with rounded periods or big, impressive words, or with any blandishment or superfluous decoration of the kind which many are in the habit of using to describe or adorn what they have produced ”.
The trajectory of the impressive professional career and turbulent private life that leads to this moment is traced via flashbacks in which Chaplin recalls his introduction to Hollywood and silent movies, his failed marriages and problems with the press, his dealings with the FBI, and the creation of his most beloved character, the iconic Little Tramp.
In the introduction, he described him as: “ Angelus not nuntius, ... his impressive personality, his sacerdotal words, the popularity he generated in public meetings "
The orchestral introduction builds to an impressive tutti, but many writers, including Hutchings and Girdlestone, have considered that after the entry of the piano this early promise is somewhat dissipated.
Further, Reynolds's impressive introduction did as much to re-establish Finch's reputation as Wordsworth's previous praise.

impressive and scale
The massive use of charcoal on an industrial scale in Early Modern Europe was a new type of consumption of western forests ; even in Stuart England, the relatively primitive production of charcoal has already reached an impressive level.
While the resulting development is impressive in its scale and confidence, the quality of its architecture has been praised and criticised in almost equal measure.
Numerous buildings and other constructions, including the city walls along the boulevard, are illuminated at night, creating an impressive effect-probably unique among Polish cities with respect to the size of Toruń's Old Town and the scale of the illumination project itself.
One features a rear chamber of especially " impressive " scale and quality.
It is an impressive architectural replica of the original Gračanica of Kosovo, but built in a scale eighteen percent larger than the original.
However, no less impressive was the scale of problems at Newstead, where the yearly income had fallen to just £ 800 and many repairs were needed.
The scale of the ditches indicated an impressive monument.
Within many of the sites structures are impressive gateways ; the ones of monumental scale being placed on artificial mounds, platforms, or sunken courts.
Regent Street is an example of the Beaux Arts approach to urban design: an assembly of separate buildings on a grand scale, designed to harmonise and produce an impressive overall effect.
Among the most impressive is a scale model of the Endurance.
The station has four lines, two of which are sidings, and is quite impressive in scale.
The most impressive example was in the textile industry, which created massive new factories staffed by unskilled workers that displaced the small scale and home workshops of weavers in New England.
The Auditorium is a heavy, impressive structure externally, and was more striking in its day when buildings of its scale were less common.
While a Conservative victory was thought likely, the scale of the victory surprised many people ; the Conservative wins in Camden, Greenwich, Hammersmith and Haringey were particularly impressive.
The writers of the WPA Guide to New York City ( 1939 ) noted " Their smallness has the effect of making the building itself seem smaller than it is, so that its scale is scarcely impressive, even when seen at close range.
IGN echoed this assessment, calling the animation " stunning and fluid ," and noted the differences in graphics between Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow, stating that the latter was on a " broader and more impressive scale ".
The grand scale of its-long facade, central dome and two end pavilions, the richness of its white marble, and its use of the currently-popular Romanesque style contributed to its being seen as an impressive monument for the new province.
Although their work is visually impressive and often controversial as a result of its scale, the artists have repeatedly denied that their projects contain any deeper meaning than their immediate aesthetic impact.
Few were left unimpressed by the scale of the capital ships ; Noel Wade of The Top Shelf was one who felt while the big ships were visually impressive, they had no impact on the player's style of play.
North Korean architects studied in Moscow or Soviet satellites, and brought back socialist worker styles and huge celebratory people's architecture on a grand and massively impressive scale.
Although the scale of the ruins are impressive, their sculptures and hieroglyphics attest to the decline of Egyptian art.
Although not on such a large scale as the concerts held at Hyde Park, London and Philadelphia, it was still a momentous occasion for Russia, and had an impressive line up.
The grand scale of its 500-ft ( 152-m ) long andesite façade, central dome and two end pavilions, the richness of its white marble, and combination of Baroque rigorous symmetry, use of domes and sculptural massing with the rusticated surfaces of the currently popular Romanesque Revival style contributed to its being an innovative and impressive monument for the young province.
Sumption's narrative history of The Hundred Years War between England and France ( of which three volumes have so far been published 1990 – 2009 ) has been widely praised as ' earning a place alongside Sir Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades according to Frederic Raphael, and as a work that ' deploys an enormous variety of documentary material ... and interprets it with imaginative and intelligent sympathy ' and is ' elegantly written ' ( Rosamond McKitterick, Evening Standard ); for Allan Massie it is ' An enterprise on a truly Victorian scale ... What is most impressive about this work, apart from the author's mastery of his material and his deployment of it, is his political intelligence '.

impressive and project
The mid-engined car appeared the most impressive, although it was known at the time that such a layout would struggle to meet the noise, vibration and harshness ( NVH ) requirements of the project.
This becomes all the more important to ensure the desired level of protection in field formations to safeguard the impressive gains of a focused project like ' Project Tiger '.
However, the results, according to Fouts, were not as impressive as had been reported from the Washoe project.
The entrance way to the Studio has had its original plasterwork carefully restored ( a project which is soon to move on to the impressive main foyer ).
This was a short-lived project, but during its brief career it reproduced impressive figure drawing and lithographs by Spare and others.
Although the final result is impressive with underground monuments such as the Catacombs of St. John and the underground museum of the Agora, they do not comprise highlights for the city and access is still very limited or not permitted even to the locals by the Archaeological Department of the Thessaloniki underground Metro project.
Perhaps the most impressive addition of the modernization project is the Bing Performing Arts Center which features a two-level 800-seat theater, a suite of practice rooms, a few large classrooms for band, orchestra, and choir classes, a black box theater, a dance studio, and a room filled with electric pianos for the purpose of composing electronic music.
In addition to generating these several data sets and constructing quantitative indicators of key variables that might turn out to be correlates of war the project has completed and published an impressive variety of statistical analyses and interesting and promising hypotheses.
Invited by Mark Chiarello to join " an impressive list of artists " for what Bolland terms " a nifty new project ," Bolland jumped at the chance.
While its PowerPC emulation handles most applications and the emulator already has an impressive feature set, the project still lacks features needed for a complete emulation of the PowerPC experience:
Whereas previously Baldwin could barely bounce in the direction he wanted, he eventually became more proficient at controlling his leaps and using his powers in various ways, such as to deliver impressive blows, and even to project a stream of kinetic energy from his bubble field at a distance.
Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt ( Blue Book's first director ), held Hynek in high regard: " Dr. Hynek was one of the most impressive scientists I met while working on the UFO project, and I met a good many.
A very impressive project is the Balik-Aral program for out-of-school youth conducted by NEU in close coordination with the Department of Education, Culture and Sports ( DECS ) and the Iglesia Ni Cristo Social Services Department.
The building is much more impressive outside than inside and its meagre contents show how little thought was put into the whole project.
Some of the numbers related to the building of the stadium are impressive: the development of the project required 370 vellum boards ; five months were consumed in earth moving and excavation ; a stream was redirected by the movement of 340 cubic metres of earth ; the volume of concrete used was equivalent to the construction of 83 10-storey buildings ; 280 million sacks of cement were used ( if placed side by side they would cover the distance from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro ); and 50, 000 tons of iron were used ( which would circle the Earth two and a half times ).
Furthermore, as the club evaluated that the current school sound and lighting systems are inadequate to produce an impressive performance for the audience, it was decided to steer the project into a new direction.
This was not a practical language translator, but it was an impressive science fair project for the early 1960s.
Bromley notes, " though the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry ( www. carm. org ) is a very impressive counter-cult Web site, it is by and large the sole project of one man with a Master of Divinity degree.
Two years after that magical 1985 season Mississippi State unveiled the most dramatic advancement for its baseball facilities ever ‹ an impressive $ 3. 5 million project that would give MSU the biggest baseball stadium in the league.

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