Like Saverio Mercadante, who also reassessed the strength and weaknesses of this period in opera, Pacini's style did change, but he quickly became eclipsed by the rising influence of Giuseppe Verdi on the Italian operatic scene, and many of his operas appeared to be old fashioned and rarely, if ever, appeared outside of Italy.

Like Lisitsian, they sing Verdi and the works of their native composers, including Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades.

Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.

Like the bell at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high.

Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.

Like Emerson, Alcott was always optimistic, idealistic, and individualistic in thinking.

Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

Like his father, Alboin was raised a pagan, although Audoin had at one point attempted to gain Byzantine support against his neighbours by professing himself a Catholic.

Like other children of the rich Meccan merchant families, Abu Bakr was literate and developed a fondness for poetry.

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.

Like his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced ; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney.

Like the BBC Micro, the Electron was constrained by limited memory resources.

Like the previous, this Aeolus was said to have had had twelve children-six sons and six daughters.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.

The RSC gave her the opportunity to play many of the Shakespearean heroines, including Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Ophelia in Hamlet, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and her Cleopatra, magisterial, ardent and seductive, in 1973, about which critics raved, and which is said to be a definitive performance.

Like his superior, Jaime Sin, the Cardinal Archbishop of Manila, he was an ardent opponent of Ferdinand Marcos.

Like his famous father, Tennyson was an ardent imperialist, and in 1883 he had become a council member of the Imperial Federation League, a lobby group set up to support the imperialist ideas of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain.

Like many students at the time, he was an ardent opponent of America's intervention into World War II and was an outspoken isolationist.

Like most Republicans elected in the 1994 landslide, Hayworth was an ardent conservative.

Like his father-in-law, Thrasea Paetus, he was distinguished for his ardent and courageous republicanism.

Like her contemporary Mary Wollstonecraft, she championed the rights of women and was an ardent supporter of the French Revolution.

Like Archer, Culberson is an ardent fiscal and social conservative.

Like his former boss, Spence, Wilson is an ardent social and fiscal conservative, and a strong supporter of the military.

Like most South Carolina politicians of his era, Rivers was an ardent segregationist.

Like his compatriots, Clock King becomes an ardent supporter of Maxwell Lord, partly due to the fact he is the only one willing to hire them.

Like his father, brother, and nephew he was an ardent Calvinist, and an adherent of the Polish Reformed Church, and defended it against the rise of the Counter-Reformation.

Like his father he was an ardent Roman Catholic, and effective leader of the large Catholic community in Staffordshire.

Like the Italian Stirnerites ( who influenced us through our late friend Enrico Arrigoni ) we support all anti-authoritarian currents, despite their apparent contradictions.

Like many Italian dishes, minestrone was probably originally not a dish made for its own sake, like for example the ancient Roman green onion soup " Patella Lucretiana ", or Lucrezio's dish.

Like other contemporary French and Italian philosophers, Vattimo does not want, or only partially wants, to rely on Heidegger for understanding Nietzsche.

Like most northern Italian cities, it was nominally a part of the Holy Roman Empire created by Charlemagne, but locally ruled by its bishops, the first being Guibodus.

Like most of the other former European Axis powers the Italian peace treaty was signed at the 1947 Paris Peace Conference.

Like " Ye Goatherd Gods " it is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter and uses exclusively feminine endings, closely reflecting the Italian endecasyllabo.

Like his Italian Bourbon counterpart his subjects revolted against him in January 1820 and he was forced to grant a constitution.

* Italian — Bandabardò: " La fine di Pierrot " (" The End of Pierrot "), from Tre passi avanti ( 2004 ); Gigi Finizio: " Pierrot ", from A te donna ( 1984 ); Litfiba: " Pierrot e la luna " (" Pierrot and the Moon "), from 17 RE ( 1987 ); Matia Bazar: " Mio bel Pierrot " (" My Lovely Pierrot "), from Il tempo del sole ( 1980 ); Novembre: " Come Pierrot " (" Like Pierrot "), from Novembrine Waltz ( 2001 ); Patty Pravo: " Come un Pierrot " (" Like a Pierrot " ).

Like the English playoffs, the Italian playoffs employ two-legged semi-finals, with the higher finisher in the league table earning home advantage in the second leg.

Like its male counterpart, the given name Julia had been in use throughout Late Antiquity ( e. g. Julia of Corsica ) but became rare during the Middle Ages, and was revived only with the Italian Renaissance.

* Matt Monro – Singer ( Born Terence Parsons on December 1, 1930 ) Dubbed " The singers singer " and " The British Sinatra ") Famous for singing the James Bond theme " From Russia with Love " and " On Days Like These " from the film " The Italian job ".

Like many Italian dishes, there is considerable variation in recipes and names across different regions.

Like Italian classicizing ideas in the 15th and 16th centuries, it spread through Europe in the mid to late 17th century.

Like Cincinnati, Hamilton had many German and Italian immigrants, whose influence showed in culture, architecture and food.

Like most of Majorana's papers in Italian, it languished in relative obscurity for several decades.

Like Latin, the v's are pronounced like u's ; for example vino ( wine in Italian ) is uino in Anagnino.

Like his father, Arne wrote in the popular galante style of the day and utilized both rudiments of English folk music and Italian opera in his compositions.

Like much of Greater Vancouver, Burnaby has always had large ethnic and immigrant communities: to cite two examples, North Burnaby near Hastings Street has long been home to many Italian restaurants and recreational bocce games, while Metrotown's ever-sprouting condominium towers in the south have been fuelled in part by more recent arrivals from China ( Hong Kong and Macau ), Taiwan, South Korea, and the former Yugoslavia.

Like their Italian predecessors the Russian Futurists were fascinated with dynamism, speed and the restlessness of modern urban life.

Like the Fascists, the Futurists were Italian nationalists, radicals, admirers of violence, and were opposed to parliamentary democracy.

Like its predecessor, the film was distributed through Universal by Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis.

Like the Italian piazza, the plaza remains a center of community life that is only equaled by the market-place.

Like other European revolutionary societies, such as the Carbonari of the Italian Risorgimento, the Young Turks had their origins in secret societies of " progressive medical university students and military cadets ", driven underground along with all political dissent after the Constitution was abolished by Hamid.