Lauded as a hero by the Neapolitan court, Nelson was later to dabble in Neapolitan politics and become the Duke of Bronté, actions for which he was criticised by his superiors and his reputation suffered.

Lauded with numerous international design awards for his creative output, he worked in a variety of styles, including modern, Victorian, and Georgian.

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Lauded by the New Yorker as " one of the most successful woman composers of all time ", her bold and energetic compositions have been performed in concert halls around the world.

Lauded as " the finest of all gothic horror movies ", Bride is frequently hailed as Whale's masterpiece.

Lauded by many as " the most lonesome singer-poet ", Zhang Chu has remained a prominent figure on Chinese rock scene despite not releasing a new album since 1997.

Lauded by the New York Times as a notable book of the year, as well as an Edgar Award finalist, Our Guys was made into a television movie starring Ally Sheedy and Eric Stoltz.

Lauded by the renowned Mexican poet and intellectual José Emilio Pacheco as " the rise of a fresh and unique young voice ," Oscar Gonzales studied under Yale's eminent literary critics Harold Bloom, Manuel Durán, and Roberto González-Echevarría.

Lauded by the renowned Mexican poet and intellectual José Emilio Pacheco as " the rise of a fresh and unique young voice " in poetry, the book comprises three distinct parts that vary stylistically and thematically.

Lauded by critics, the album was one of the first drum & bass titles to achieve mainstream success, going on to be one of the best-selling drum & bass albums of its time.

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If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

His plans and dreams had revolved around her so much and for so long that now he felt as if he had nothing.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

He hovered over her to shield her, for spent bullets were thudding against the rear walls.

`` He works for my father '', the girl said, and then seemed to change her mind.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

All of her movements were careful and methodical, partaking of the stealth of a criminal who has plotted his felony for months in advance and knows exactly which step to take next in the course of the final execution of his crime.

Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

Silence walked at Pamela's side, its presence numbingly close, yet too far for her to hear.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

He waited at the car side for a moment, looking down at her expectantly.

Let Senora Brannon live in her father's house for a time.

He released her reluctantly for her enthusiastic reunion with Old Hap.

And she really tried to go a step further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as they now were for her and for Rod.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

And for the hundredth time that week, he was startled at her beauty.

Poetry for a Persian is nothing less than truth and beauty.

It remained, however, for Mando to teach me that Doric symbolized strength, Ionic wisdom, and Corinthian beauty, the three pillars of the ancient world.

The Acropolis had been scheduled for the treatment too, but apparently it was to take place at the time of the full moon when the Athenians themselves, out of respect for the natural beauty of the occasion, were wont to forgo their own usual nocturnal illumination.

Running counter to the destroying forces in the world are all the virtues that are innate in man, the capacity for love and brotherhood, the ability to appreciate beauty.

But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

It encompasses in its expanse areas where the natural beauty encourages a vacation of quiet contemplation, on the one hand, to places where entertainment and spectacles of all sorts have been provided for the tourist with camera.

A motley pack, chosen for effectiveness, not beauty.

I stood there, staring at her for a moment -- thinking mostly of her beauty and her poverty.

He plays his sax principally for beauty of tone, rather than for scintillating flights of meaningless improvisations, and he has a quiet way of getting back and restating the melody after the improvising is over.

The only man alive who seems qualified by his learning, his disposition and his addiction to a baroque luxuriance of language to inherit the literary mantle of Sacheverell Sitwell, Mr. Sansom writes of foreign parts with a dedication to decoration worthy of a pastry chef creating a wedding cake for the marriage of a Hungarian beauty ( her third ) and an American multimillionaire ( his fourth ).

Amber is fossilized tree resin ( not sap ), which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times.

During this time, Alexios was rumored to be the lover of Empress Maria of Alania, the daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia, who had been successively married to Michael VII Doukas and his successor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, renowned for her beauty.

Plato believed that for us to have a perception of beauty there must be a transcendent form for beauty in which beautiful objects partake and which causes them to be beautiful also.

For Oscar Wilde the contemplation of beauty for beauty's sake was not only the foundation for much of his literary career but was quoted as saying " Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful.

Hogarth, for example, thinks that beauty consists of ( 1 ) fitness of the parts to some design ; ( 2 ) variety in as many ways as possible ; ( 3 ) uniformity, regularity or symmetry, which is only beautiful when it helps to preserve the character of fitness ; ( 4 ) simplicity or distinctness, which gives pleasure not in itself, but through its enabling the eye to enjoy variety with ease ; ( 5 ) intricacy, which provides employment for our active energies, leading the eye on " a wanton kind of chase "; and ( 6 ) quantity or magnitude, which draws our attention and produces admiration and awe.

In contrast to romantic theorists Sircello argued for the objectivity of beauty and formulated a theory of love on that basis.