Sparing no expense to build the edifice, the synagogue features a majestic ark made of white marble.

The rural peasants provided the pharaohs with both the manpower to build their majestic monuments and the food to support the workers.

In a 2008 Rolling Stone review, Andy Greene writes that when released in late 1974: " it was greeted by a collective shrug by the rock critical establishment " and concludes: " He's released many wonderful albums since, but he's never again hit the majestic heights of this one.

Isaak Glikman heard around ten minutes of the music Shostakovich had written for the first movement in late April, which he described as " majestic in scale, in pathos, in its breathtaking motion ".

It is a favorite tourist destination in the late October to December and in the summer, where thousands of tourist climb the majestic Mt.

Outside is a statue of General James Wolfe in a small plaza from which there are majestic views across to the former Greenwich Hospital ( the Old Royal Naval College and now the University of Greenwich ) and then towards the river, the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf, the City of London to the northwest and the Millennium Dome to the north.

As Union forces under the command of General John M. Schofield began their hasty withdrawal from Columbia, they began destroying important buildings along the line of withdrawal by fire as a defensive tactic and many of Maury County's majestic antebellum homes were destroyed.

While photographs and portraits portray Stalin as physically massive and majestic ( he had several painters shot who did not depict him " right "), he was only five feet four inches tall ( 160 cm ).

Homer describes her as the formidable, venerable majestic queen of the shades, who carries into effect the curses of men upon the souls of the dead.

Homer describes her as the formidable, venerable majestic queen of the shades, who carries into effect the curses of men upon the souls of the dead, along with her husband Hades.

Basil was a stocky man of less than average stature who, nevertheless, cut a majestic figure on horseback.

' The Vice-Chancellor who matriculated me was the majestic Liddell, who, with his six feet of stately height draped in scarlet,

The free and expressive style of Song high culture has been contrasted with majestic Tang poems by centuries of subsequent critics who engage in fierce arguments over which dynasty had the best poetry.

Following the establishment of Fort Snelling in 1820, the falls became an attraction for tourists, writers and artists who sought inspiration even if Hennepin's descriptions were not as majestic as hoped for.

The jaguar stands today, as it did in the past, as an important symbol for the sacred and profane lives of those who coexist with this majestic feline.

In 1947 for the Inter American Conference, Master Santiago Martínez Delgado painted a majestic mural under commission of the then director of the OEA, Honorable Alberto Lleras Camargo and Conference organizer the Honorable Laureano Gómez, two men who later became Presidents of Colombia.

And rightly so, as they rode these majestic and fearsome beasts to war and vanquished all who challenged them.

It is even said that the Elven farmers and labourers who live near the majestic White Tower of Hoeth never plough their own fields as every year there is another crop of novices eager to test and demonstrate their skills.

Caruzzo, and with such majestic location overlooking the Valley of the Kings, the hotel tells its visitors about the glamorous guest list who has visited it … as it became a compass for legendary stars, luxury travellers and mystical adventurers.

Iggy Singh ( GB ) broke the world record with a majestic leap of 8. 75m only to be beaten again by training partner Liam Collins who jumped a world record 8m96.

She also carries within her a yearning, a majestic quasi-religious sensibility which finds its apotheosis in the deification, as she dies, of her pet parrot who floats above her deathbed masquerading as the Holy Ghost, the love she shows to the parrot being symbolic of her altruism.

Pierre Fournier ( June 24, 1906January 8, 1986 ) was a French cellist who was called the " aristocrat of cellists ," on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound.

This attention softened a little the generally sour disposition of the old pianist, who did not forgive the new school for knowing something ; he took my hand and said with the air of majestic condescension: The style is good, as for the rest there is nothing astonishing ; you are my grandchild ( alluding to Stamaty, who was his pupil ), but for god's sake, who advised you to play such music.

This record saw some contributions from Czesław Niemen, who played his Moog synthesizer psychedelic parts in a majestic rock suite called " Szalony koń ".

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

His figure was pleasing and majestic, but when angry, his eyes became so terrible that “ the wretch on whom it was fixed instantly fell backwards and sometimes expired ”.

A competition for the majestic façade of the San Giovanni in Laterano was won by architect Alessandro Galilei.

Although Jefferson wrote that Congress had " mangled " his draft version, the Declaration that was finally produced, according to his biographer John Ferling, was " the majestic document that inspired both contemporaries and posterity.

In the churches of the Germans his emissaries saw no beauty ; but at Constantinople, where the full festival ritual of the Byzantine Church was set in motion to impress them, they found their ideal: " We no longer knew whether we were in heaven or on earth ," they reported, describing a majestic Divine Liturgy in Hagia Sophia, " nor such beauty, and we know not how to tell of it.

In the Island of Mozambique, the hospital, a majestic neo-classical building constructed in 1877 by the Portuguese, with a garden decorated with ponds and fountains, was for many years the biggest hospital south of the Sahara.

In 1963, Chagall was commissioned to paint the new ceiling for the Paris Opera, a majestic 19th-century building and national monument.

Thus, Nephthys was also seen in the Pyramid Texts as a supportive cosmic force occupying the night-bark on the journey of Ra, the majestic sun god, particularly when he entered Duat at the transitional time of dusk, or twilight.

It was considered one of the most grand of thoroughbred horse racing parks with its majestic Mediterranean style architecture and was considered the Jewel of Hialeah at the time.

The island was wiped away in a storm including its majestic lighthouse which fell into the sea.

Cohoes is named for its most famous landmark, the Cohoes Falls, a majestic waterfall that was discovered by the region's original settlers, the Mohawk Nation.

Port Angeles was also used in the last scene of the 1994 movie of Wyatt Earp when Wyatt and Josie were on the boat out from the harbor with the majestic Olympic Mountains in the distance.

Sikeston ’ s downtown area includes Malone Park, the city ’ s oldest park, and the historic First Methodist Church columns, six majestic pillars that remain as a reminder of the 1879 church which was destroyed by fire in 1968.

* The majestic church of the Grimbergen Abbey, dedicated to Saint Servatius, patron saint of the city, was rebuilt several times since its foundation in 1128.

He wrote of William the Conqueror in Historia Anglorum: He was of just stature, ordinary corpulence, fierce countenance ; his forehead was bare of hair ; of such great strength of arm that it was often a matter of surprise, that no one was able to draw his bow, which himself could bend when his horse was in full gallop ; he was majestic whether sitting or standing, although the protuberance of his belly deformed his royal person ; of excellent health so that he was never confined with any dangerous disorder, except at the last ; so given to the pleasures of the chase, that as I have before said, ejecting the inhabitants, he let a space of many miles grow desolate that, when at liberty from other avocations, he might there pursue his pleasures.

Sir Joshua Reynolds in his Discourses praised his " simple, grave, and majestic dignity " and said he " stands in general foremost of the first best painters ", especially for his frescoes ( in which he included the " Raphael Cartoons "), whereas " Michael Angelo claims the next attention.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said of the Crown that it " links us all together with the majestic past that takes us back to the Tudors, the Plantagenets, the Magna Carta, habeas corpus, petition of rights, and English common law.

Their style is also said to be solemn and majestic.

Burnham said, I want you to save this majestic animal, not only because it is in danger of extinction, but of more importance, some day it might provide domestic sheep with a strain to save them from disaster at the hands of a yet unknown virus.

The main image is an Amitabha which is said to represent the transition of solemn and majestic Northern Wei sculpture in to the more life-like style of the Tang.

In a review for the Objectivist magazine The Intellectual Activist, Harry Binswanger said the book provided the first " full, systematic, non-fiction expression " of Objectivism, and said it was filled with " many electrifying ideas, elegant formulations, and majestic overviews.

" The New York Times review criticized the films slow pace and said that the film " moved like a majestic snail, as do all Ray films.