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It is hard to recapture the radical and exciting nature of early neo-classical painting for contemporary audiences ; it now strikes even those writers favourably inclined to it as " insipid " and " almost entirely uninteresting to us "— some of Kenneth Clark's comments on Anton Raphael Mengs ' ambitious Parnassus at the Villa Albani, by the artist who his friend Winckelmann described as " the greatest artist of his own, and perhaps of later times ".
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It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.
It is hard to see how the situation could be otherwise.
he knows that the land is hard and pitiless.
Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.
The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.
It is hard not to lay most of the blame for their failures on the pope.
It is hard for me to know how I feel about Lauro Di Bosis.
He's hitting the ball hard, in the batting cage, and his whole attitude is improved over this time last year.
When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.
The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.
Berlin's resilience is amazing, but if it has to hire its labor in the West the struggle will be hard indeed ''.
It is, I insist, hard to define the Rayburn contribution to our political civilization because it is so massive and so widespread and so complicated, and because it goes so deep.
It is a flavor that might take a little getting used to -- not because it is unpleasant, but because the flavor is hard to define in the light of our experience with other fruits.
Aeschbacher's work is very much akin to Schnabel's, but the sound on his Decca disc is dated, and you will have a hard time locating a copy of it.
This design is hard to beat for timber hunting or for packing in a saddle scabbard.
Paperweight may be personalized on back while clay is leather hard.
Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.
It is hard to understand how he concluded that most snakes do not grow appreciably after attaining maturity ; ;
Particularly hard for the therapist to grasp are those instances in which the patient is manifesting an introject traceable to something in the therapist, some aspect of the therapist of which the latter is himself only poorly aware, and the recognition of which, as a part of himself, he finds distinctly unwelcome.
is and recapture
It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.
Carbon dating of textiles found with the remains in the cave indicate they are contemporaneous with the period of the Revolt and it is believed that as they were buried with pig bones ( a Roman practice ); this indicates that the remains may belong to Romans who garrisoned Masada after its recapture.
But it is also used nostalgically, and modern space opera may be an attempt to recapture the sense of wonder of the golden age of science fiction.
Saladin's recapture of Palestine from the European Crusaders is considered inspiration for the modern-day Arabs ' opposition to Zionism.
After Terran rebels take over Terek Nor, Worf tries to recapture the station but is defeated by the rebels who have a new ship based on the design of the Defiant.
The novel is set in the weeks following Nick's recapture after several years on the run, alternating between moral arguments with his interrogator, who is trying to discover why the program's star pupil had absconded, and flashbacks of his career.
He is delivered by Lysimachus ; and the twain capture Cassandra and recapture Iphigenia in the hour of their marriage.
** 1270 – Before August – King Louis IX of France launches the Eighth Crusade in an attempt to recapture the crusader states from the Mamluk sultan Baibars ; the opening engagement is a siege of Tunis.
* Before August – King Louis IX of France launches the Eighth Crusade in an attempt to recapture the crusader states from the Mamluk sultan Baibars ; the opening engagement is a siege of Tunis.
" Recollection is a deliberate effort to search for and recapture something once known.
Hannibal's attempt to recapture the town is foiled by the appearance of Scipio's army.
He attempts to escape four times, in 1800 ( shortly before he was due to be released anyway ), 1802, 1806 and 1809, each time his sentence is lengthened by three years ; he also receives an extra two years for once resisting recapture during his second escape.
Judas Maccabeus wins the battle and is able to recapture Jerusalem soon after.
As the sailors recapture the ship, Ryback finds his way into the control room, where he is captured by Strannix.
* Rome's subjugation of Italy is completed by the recapture of Rhegium ( southern Italy ) from the Mamertines and the defeat of the Brutians, the Lucanians, the Calabrians and the Samnites.
" Narrowly avoiding recapture, Thornhill takes a taxi to the General Assembly building of the United Nations, where Townsend is due to deliver a speech.
Lestat demands that the procedure be used on him to allow him to be human once again, but soon finds that he has made an error and is forced to recapture James in his vampiric form so he can take his body back.
The poem tells the story of a horseback pursuit to recapture the colt of a prizewinning racehorse that escaped from its paddock and is living wild with the brumbies ( wild horses ) of the mountain ranges.
The primary strength of this system is the ability of pedestrian customers to take purchases home and allow retailers to recapture abandoned carts in a timely manner at a fraction of the cost of a replacement cart.
When the prison guards attempt to recapture him, Radek tries to flee but is shot and killed.
There is one other black defence: 1 ... Rd6 leading to the simple recapture 2. Bxd6 # ( this is essentially the same mate as that which follows 1 ... Be6 ).
In the theory of Lie groups the exponential map is a map from the Lie algebra of a Lie group to the group which allows one to recapture the local group structure from the Lie algebra.
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