Certainly, America took Prokofieff and his Classical Symphony seriously, and with a good deal of pleasure.

Time stood still for these people, and their load of pleasure was so commingled with the shocks and pains of the dromozoa that the words of the Lady Da took on very remote meaning.

: The audience took great pleasure in screaming, " BITCH!

While imprisoned, he became actively involved, as an actor, writer, producer, and set-designer, in the amateur theatrical productions which took place in the camp, finding them " a source of great pleasure and amusement ".

Although educated Indians " by and large took a vicarious pleasure " in seeing the British rulers humbled, the ruling upper classes sided with the Allies.

In Ovid's Ars Amatoria Pasiphaë is reduced to unflattering human terms: Pasiphae fieri gaudebat adultera tauri —" Pasiphaë took pleasure in becoming an adulteress with a bull.

Paine's " libertine " text leads the young man to " bold slanders of the bible ", even to the point that he " threw aside his father's good old family bible, and for a surer guide to pleasure took up the AGE OF REASON!

Rococo style took pleasure in asymmetry, a taste that was new to European style.

His main interest was in entertainment, though he also took pleasure in athletics and mechanical crafts.

Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, " hard, enduring ", which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλήναι " to endure "; Doig offers the further possibility that Virgil was aware of Strabo's remark that the native North African name for this mountain was Douris.

" Because craftsmen took pleasure in their work ", Morris wrote, " the Middle Ages was a period of greatness in the art of the common people.

Raeder took a great deal of pleasure in criticising Hitler's SS security because he had taken a loaded handgun with him during his lunch with Hitler, but was not searched ; after the lunch, Raeder produced the handgun, and then subjected Hitler's SS bodyguards to a lengthy lecture about their incompetence.

She took pleasure in decorating the house – especially with furnishings from Asia – and clothing the family in tasteful apparel.

He took pleasure in the successes of the boys he had informally adopted over the years, retained his interest in reform, accepted speaking engagements, and read portions of Ragged Dick to boys ' assemblies.

He took pleasure in these killings because they allowed him to maintain his iron-fisted rulership.

Friar Marcos de Niza ( 1539 ) writing of the " Chichimecas ": that from time to time " they of this valley cast lots whose luck ( honour ) it shall be to be sacrificed, and they make him great cheer, on whom the lot falls, and with great joy they crown him with flowers upon a bed prepared in the said ditch all full of flowers and sweet herbs, on which they lay him along, and lay great store of dry wood on both sides of him, and set it on fire on either part, and so he dies " and " that the victim took great pleasure " in being sacrificed.

It's a very unusual performance in that he's very funny, he's physically comic, but he's also strangely graceful, a pleasure to watch ... It looked very expensive even though it wasn't and that's a feat ... The earlier script I saw was disappointing ( but ) they took it back and worked on it and it's hugely improved.

Unlike white audiences, black audiences presumably always recognized blackface performance as caricature, and took pleasure in seeing their own culture observed and reflected, much as they would half a century later in the performances of Moms Mabley.

All unexplained sounds heard in the woods were attributed to Bohpoli, believing he took a special pleasure in hitting the pine trees to create noise.

He took his penis in his hand so that he might obtain the pleasure of orgasm thereby.

According to Frum, " AEI represents the best of the conservative world ... But the elite isn ’ t leading anymore ... I think Arthur took no pleasure in this.

Roger North wrote that " I have known the Court of King's Bench sitting every day from eight to 12, and the Lord Chief Justice Hale's managing matters of law to all imaginable advantage to the students, and in that he took a pleasure or rather pride ; he encouraged arguing when it was to the purpose, and used to debate with counsel, so that the court might have been taken for an academy of sciences as well as the seat of justice ".

Biographer Ann Rule described him as " a sadistic sociopath who took pleasure from another human's pain and the control he had over his victims, to the point of death, and even after.

In 1877 McCarty was involved in a conflict with the civilian blacksmith at Fort Grant, an Irish immigrant named Frank " Windy " Cahill, who took pleasure in bullying the young McCarty.

The extant fragments of the Histories ( some discovered in 1886 ) show sufficiently well the political partisan, who took a keen pleasure in describing the reaction against Sulla's policy and legislation after the dictator's death.

In Alsace, Marshal Villars took Baden by surprise and captured Haguenau, driving him back across the Rhine in some disorder, thus creating a threat on Landau.

By the end of 1934, Himmler took control of the camps under the aegis of the SS, creating a separate division, the SS-Totenkopfverbände.

As time went by, Ribbentrop took to restructuring the Foreign Office by creating new offices like the Agency for News Analysis which fought with the Propaganda Ministry for control of German propaganda abroad, and by creating an inner circle of loyalists, many of whom had come from the Dienststelle.

But spammers eventually took advantage of this, creating messages with an innocuous-looking text / plain part and advertising in the text / html part.

Sun Microsystems took another approach, creating NeWS.

Pope Innocent III ’ s increased involvement in Imperial elections took historically documented form when he called the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 during which time he beckoned about 1200 bishops, abbots and nobles from around Europe to assist in either tweaking current laws or creating new ones to further influence the masses in supporting the Pope as the universal authority of the Empire.

In 1972 they started manufacturing the Saab B engine, and in 1977 Saab took advantage of Scania's experience with turbochargers and added one to the engine, thus creating one of the earliest turbocharged " family cars " with the Saab 99 Turbo, which has been listed by Popular Mechanics as the second best turbocharged car ever made.

It is usually assumed, based on Plato's Parmenides 128c-d, that Zeno took on the project of creating these paradoxes because other philosophers had created paradoxes against Parmenides's view.

Inspired by their example, regional families of Central European builders went further, creating churches and palaces that took the local German Baroque style to the greatest heights of Rococo elaboration and sensation.

On the basis of that speech, France, Italy, the Benelux countries ( Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg ) together with West Germany signed the Treaty of Paris ( 1951 ) creating the European Coal and Steel Community the following year ; this took over the role of the International Authority for the Ruhr and lifted some restrictions on German industrial productivity.

Osborne took literary revenge by creating a fictionalised and pseudonymous Richardson — a domineering and arrogant character who everyone hated — in his play Hotel in Amsterdam.

He took the scat singing idea and applied it to the works of Bach, creating The Swingle Singers.

In December 2011, several separate incidents took place in rapid succession, creating a large public discussion about the position of Haredim in Israeli society, and leading to widespread incitement in both directions-seculars about Haredim, and Haredim about seculars.

Also in 1964, in a seismic political shift, the Brazilian military took control of the government and abolished all existing political parties, creating a two-party system.

As the news of his TV father's death was being reported, Howard released a statement: " His love of creating, the joy he took in it whether it was drama or comedy or his music, was inspiring to grow up around.

As a result, Nyaya scholars again went to great pains to identify, in each case, what it took to make knowledge valid, in the process creating a number of explanatory schemes.

He had many of the best scholars chosen as candidates and took great care in choosing them, even creating terms by which he hired people.

Colonel André Dewavrin ( also known as Colonel Passy ), who had previously worked for France's military intelligence service, the Deuxième Bureau, took on the responsibility for creating such a network.

The Catholic Church took interest in creating a mission in the area, and in 1841, Stevensville was founded.

County government took several steps forward in the 2000s, creating a new Plan Commission, re-instituting a county economic development organization, and establishing the county's first Park and Recreation Board between 2000 and 2004.

After the People's Republic of China took control of Mainland China in 1949, the Republic of China government based in Taiwan continued to control the Dachen Islands off the coast of Zhejiang until 1955, even establishing a rival Zhejiang provincial government there, creating a situation similar to Fujian province today.

He restored the Cathedral to the form he believed it took in the Middle Ages, working with original materials where possible and creating imitations when the originals were not available.

Rapid economic growth took place during this time period, with lumbering, milling, and shipbuilding creating many jobs.

Still devoted to the Polish cause, he took part in creating the Polish Legions.