Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

`` Behind that Charlie Chaplin moustache and that truant lock of hair that always covered his forehead, behind the tirades and the sulky silences, the passionate orations and the occasional dull evasive stare, behind the prejudices, the cynicism, the total amorality of behavior, behind even the tendency to great strategic mistakes, there lay a statesman of no mean qualities: Shrewd, calculating, in many ways realistic, endowed -- like Stalin -- with considerable powers of dissimulation, capable of playing his cards very close to his chest when he so desired, yet bold and resolute in his decisions, and possessing one gift Stalin did not possess: The ability to rouse men to fever pitch of personal devotion and enthusiasm by the power of the spoken word ''.

Behind the sand embankment and sea wall lay a level shelf of sand, narrow at either end and extending up to 200 yards ( 180 m ) inland in the center.

Behind this portcullis lay the king's burial chamber.

Behind these incidents lay his family's resentment towards Lord North for refusing to elevate the Holland barony to an earldom.

Behind his numerous reforms lay a comprehensive program influenced by the doctrines of enlightened absolutism, natural law, mercantilism, and physiocracy.

Behind them lay the spent remnants of Jourdan and Houchard's columns, some 13, 000 strong, together with 6, 000 fresh troops of Landrin.

Behind the Russbach lay the Wagram escarpment, which constituted an excellent observation point.

Behind this act of retribution lay a national reawakening among the scattered Armenians in the world, which had begun in the end of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Behind Legal Quays lay Thames Street, with its warehouses, sugar refineries and cooperages.

Behind this growth lay the rapid industrialisation of the nineteenth century which left much of the working population throughout Scotland's Central Belt from Glasgow to Edinburgh living in the housing stock built at the end of that century but accommodating far more people.

Behind Legal Quays lay Thames Street, with its warehouses, sugar refineries and cooperages.

Behind this window lay, among other things, more packages and newspaper bundles, empty cardboard boxes lashed together with rope, the frame of a baby carriage, a rake, and old umbrellas tied together.

Behind it lay the city and fortress of Megiddo, where the revolting forces had gathered.

Behind these lay the Awraba, the band of Ferhun, the Banū Walīd, the Zenata, the Banū Irnian and the Banū Merasen of the band of Qāsim, Lord of Sa.

Behind this wall lay the private units, bilik, each with a single door for each family.

Behind the two divisions lay a line of small craft tasked with repeating Duncan's signals so that the entire fleet could see his intentions.

Behind the music stage lay the park's worst-kept secret: a hole in the fence used by local children to sneak into the park without paying admission.

Behind this early " retirement " lay Fallmerayer's " known convictions, which, particularly in religious matters, are incompatible with the teaching profession.

Behind that fleet lay the overwhelming power of the German Army.

Behind Britain's sea shield lay her numerically small ( but fully professional and highly effective ) army, the ' Old Contemptibles.

Behind it lay the original sanctuary of Amun, the offering table room and a later sanctuary with several side-rooms and stairs to the roof.

Behind the religious facade, there probably lay a display of realpolitik in bringing charges against the Phocians, instigated by the Thebans.

* Leaking State Secrets: Behind the scenes at China Daily

Image: Communication University of China campus 8. jpg | Behind No. 1 Teaching Building

On October 17, 1959, The New York Times reported that Walter Reade Jr. was rushing to release Behind the Great Wall, a travelogue through China made by Italian director Carlo Lizzani, accompanied by a process called " AromaRama " to send scents through the air-conditioning system of a theater.

Based on his experiences, he wrote La Porta Proibita ( Behind The Forbidden Door ), a highly critical book about post-Maoist China.

* Behind The Forbidden Door: Travels in Unknown China ( La porta proibita, 1985 )

" Behind a gloomy Victorian shrubbery there's a gloomy Victorian mansion, but behind that lurks one of the most extraordinary gardens in Britain ... it contains whole continents, including China and Ancient Egypt-not to mention Italian terraces and a Scottish glen.

Tang's best-known films are her first two, The Arch ( 1970 ) and China Behind ( 1974 ).

The bleak portrait in China Behind of both communist China and capitalist Hong Kong brought upon it a thirteen-year ban by the British colonial authorities.

* Behind Red Star over China ( 2006 account from China Daily )

She worked on a film based on Rachel DeWoskin's memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China.

Behind an improved defense the team would finish 7 – 9 in 1983, but it would be their last season in Baltimore.

He also wrote " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), which contributed to the development of techno, and the international hit " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), a synthpop song for which he sang the vocals through a vocoder and which would later be covered by a number of international artists, including Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton.

:< sup > 32 </ sup > Behind him he leaves a glistening wake ; one would think the deep had white hair.

In VH1's " Behind the Music " Grand Funk Railroad episode, Knight stated that the original contract would have run out in about three months, and that the smart decision for the band would have been to just wait out the time.

Hall would later say in an interview for VH1's Behind the Music that he looked like " the girl I always wanted to go out with " on that album cover.

Impressed with Divine's performance in Women Behind Bars, playwright Tom Eyen decided to write a new play that would feature him in a starring role.

Behind the scenes the Irish state worked with the Allies ; in 1940, the government agreed provisionally with Britain that it would accept the entry of British troops and put its own armed forces under their command should the Germans invade Ireland-see Plan W. There was a provisional German plan for an invasion of Ireland, known as Operation Green, but it was never carried out.

Behind him, the woman he had been pursuing would anxiously peer out from her hiding place inside a barrel.

He has been critical of No Child Left Behind, supporting a modification that would, in his words, " give states the freedom to adopt best practices for their students by returning flexibility and control to the educators and parents who are the real experts on education ".

He would later appear in a VH1 Behind the Music special on Studio 54 to recount his experiences.

In 2010, Hugh Hefner's former girlfriend Izabella St. James, in her memoir " Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion ", wrote that the house was in need of renovation: " Everything in the Mansion felt old and stale, and Archie the house dog would regularly relieve himself on the hallway curtains, adding a powerful whiff of urine to the general scent of decay.

DeWitt would go on to co-produce and host the 2003 NBC-TV television film Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company, with actress Melanie Deanne Moore portraying her during her time on Three's Company.

The first bill Van Hollen introduces every session is the Keep Our Promise to America's Children and Teachers ( PACT ) Act, which would fully fund No Child Left Behind and IDEA.

ABC executives promised Lunden a prime time program ; Behind Closed Doors would be on the network schedule.

Kerry voted for the No Child Left Behind Act and argues that it should be " fully funded " which would entail funding several programs up to authorized levels of funding.

Behind the scenes, it was widely known that the match would be Goldberg's last in WWE.

Behind the scenes, Gilbert endorsed Borden by telling a dirt sheet that Sting would be a megastar in the future.

Behind the public scenes, however, the Acting Governor had confided to fellow Republicans that ordering the Guard into San Francisco would ruin him politically.

Behind the British armour, on the high ground to their north east would be two brigades of 44th ( Home Counties ) Infantry Division and concentrations of divisional and Corps artillery.

* Phil Collins would re-record " Behind the Lines " for his debut solo album Face Value ( 1981 ).

" Behind the batsmen, Rod Marsh and his captain Ian Chappell would vie with each other in profanity ", and Tom Graveney wrote " It was an open secret that he used to encourage his players to give a lot of verbal abuse to rival batsman when they were at the wicket in an attempt to break their concentration.