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The daring 17th century author Li Yu combined tales of passionate love between men with brutal violence and cosmic revenge.
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After a daring flight, which kept Germany in suspense for more than two weeks, they were finally spotted at the castle of Saaleck in Thuringia, whose owner was himself a secret member of the O. C .. On July 17th they were confronted by two police detectives.
The belfry was not any more placed beside the church as was common in the 17th century, but on the facade itself, usually surmounting the octagonal central church and producing daring vertical compositions.
For example, Angélique and the Sultan, part of the bestselling French Angélique series by Sergeanne Golon, in which a 17th century French noblewoman is captured by pirates, sold into the harem of the King of Morocco, stabs the King when he tries to have sex with her and stages a daring escape.
daring and century
In the 18th century, Lully's most important successor was Jean-Philippe Rameau, who composed five tragédies en musique as well as numerous works in other genres such as opéra-ballet, all notable for their rich orchestration and harmonic daring.
Over the past quarter century, John Ciardi has come to be regarded as a mid-level, mid-century formalist, one who was replaced in literary history by the more daring and colorful Beat, Confessional, and Black Mountain poets.
Built on the request of Innocent XII and created by Francesco De Sanctis in the eighteenth century, this daring architectural feat with its ramps and stairs that intersect and open out like a fan definitively provided a solution for connecting the square and the Trinità Church above, providing the city with a particularly intriguing attraction that is adored by tourists from all over the world.
These restrictions were taken seriously ; in the 18th century, even a wealthy Cagot had his hand cut off and nailed to the church door for daring to touch the font reserved for " clean " citizens.
The coolness with which Abershaw met his death prolonged his notoriety, and his name was commonly used as a synonym for a daring thief in the early years of the nineteenth century.
She also was known as one of the most daring fashion plates of the 20th century, arguably the most important patron of the surrealist couturier Elsa Schiaparelli.
Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction.
Former Australian Test batsman Jack Fingleton described Harvey's innings as " a superb century, rich in youthful daring and stroke production ".
It is, in some respects, the most daring achievement of Gothic architecture, and consists only of a transept ( sixteenth-century ) and choir, with apse and seven polygonal apsidal chapels ( thirteenth century ), which are reached by an ambulatory.
The architecture of Tillamook has been called a tremendous engineering feat and one of the most daring of the nineteenth century.
daring and author
and the author, who seemed the embodiment of France's rising spirit of resistance to her conquerors, was much complimented for his daring military action.
After Alliance between Church and State, his next and best-known work, Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist ( 2 vols., 1737 – 1741 ), preserves his name as the author of the most daring and ingenious of theological paradoxes.
That the writer of a play far more daring than Etheredge's She Would if She Could — and far more brilliant too — should at once become the talk of the court was inevitable ; equally inevitable was it that the author of the song at the end of the first act, in praise of harlots and their offspring, should attract the attention of the king's mistress, Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland.
" In The Futon Critic's list of the 20 best episodes of 2000, the episode was placed at # 1, with the author calling it an even more daring episode than " Hush ", another acclaimed episode from the fourth season.
1321 ), French publicist in the reign of Philip the Fair, was the author of a series of political pamphlets embodying original and daring views.
daring and Li
Li Jiancheng's and Li Yuanji's sons were all executed as well, with Emperor Gaozu not daring to oppose the action.
daring and Yu
Other writers ( e. g., Yu Hua ( 余华 ), Ge Fei ( 格非 ), Su Tong ( 苏童 ) experimented in a more avant-garde ( 先锋 ) mode of writing that was daring in form and language and showed a complete loss of faith in ideals of any sort.
Han Yu wrote in many modes, often with discursiveness and experimental daring.
daring and combined
Their combined army freed Chile with a daring assault over the Andes in 1817, defeating the Spaniards at the Battle of Chacabuco on February 12 and marking the beginning of the Patria Nueva.
In the founding years, Avon combined the best of English and American secondary school traditions with a daring and radical modern curriculum, and the school found many early successes despite facing the challenges of being a young institution.
is a term used in manga and anime to describe a giant robot or mecha, with an arsenal of fantastic super-powered weapons, extreme resistance to damage unless the plot calls for it, sometimes transformable or combined from two or more robots and / or vehicles usually piloted by young, daring heroes, and often shrouded by mystical or legendary origins.
These long-dead genetic blueprints were combined to produce a clone with the genius of Napoleon, the ruthlessness of Julius Caesar, the daring of Hannibal, and the shrewdness of Attila the Hun.
daring and tales
Scholar David Carlyon has cast doubt on the " daring political jester ", calling historical tales " apocryphal ", and concluding that " popular culture embraces a sentimental image of the clown ; writers reproduce that sentimentality in the jester, and academics in the Trickster ," but it " falters as analysis.
More recently Selwyn College has seen the foundation of an extreme sports society which has shocked the nation with tales of its courageous and daring exploits ; notable feats include ironing on the roof of the Pitt building and an attempt to wake board behind the college men's 1st VIII.
Patton grew up hearing tales of daring raids and stunning cavalry attacks from the Gray Ghost himself.
Despite this, they are among the most loyal subjects of the Phoenix King and the tales of their daring and dangerous exploits are many in number.
Catering to a male audience, these magazines featured glamour photography and lurid tales of adventure that typically featured wartime feats of daring, exotic travel or conflict with wild animals.
daring and passionate
According to the historian Cassius Dio, Vindex " was powerful in body and of shrewd intelligence, was skilled in warfare and full of daring for any great enterprise ; and he had a passionate love of freedom and a vast ambition " ( Cassius Dio, 63. 22. 1-2 ).
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Marcello Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).
Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).
With the former are associated the emotions of joy and sadness, love and hate, desire and repugnance ; with the latter, daring and fear, hope and despair, anger.
Greatly daring, he even rescues love from the convention which had made it the prerogative of the nobly born ; contrasts the titles " woman " ( wîp ) and " lady " ( froûwe ) to the disadvantage of the latter ; and puts the most beautiful of his lyrics — Unter der linden — into the mouth of a simple girl.
: Although her identity as a runaway child is the first facet of her character that is introduced to viewers, Sayoko is better known as daring, sensitive girl who is ready to risk all for love.
Plutarch, consistently with his heterosexual message, then goes on to tell how love also inspires women to great courage: " And here, methinks, we have very opportunely mentioned Alcestis ; for although the temper of women has little to do with Mars, Love many times drives them to daring attempts beyond their own nature, even to death.
Chuck leads a daring escape in the air and they end up falling in love.
Years before, he had been driven out by powerful tobacco plantation owner Major Singleton ( Donald Crisp ) for daring to fall in love with Singleton's daughter Margaret ( Patricia Neal ).
Eleven Minutes is a gripping and daring novel, which sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love, inviting us to confront our own prejudices and embrace our " inner light ".
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The competition between Holly and Sebastian for the center ring develops into a romantic triangle as well, with both Sebastian and Brad vying for Holly as the aerialists ' acts become increasingly daring and dangerous.
Julius Buths received this instruction from Mahler personally, prior to a 1903 performance in Düsseldorf ; however, he chose instead to place the long pause between the fourth and fifth movements, for which Mahler congratulated him on his insight, sensitivity, and daring to go against his stated wishes.
As an opinion leader, he was known for his daring and controversial positions on such issues as multicultural problems in Dutch society, political dualism between government and parliament, and the structure and expansion of the European Union.
The few days that intervened between his conviction and execution he spent in sketching with cherries on the walls of his cell scenes from his daring exploits on the road.
Hannah is doing something rather daring in treating her future child and her vow as her own, between her and the Lord alone.
After a series of daring jumps between ships, the two run out of deck space.
The personal daring of these Indian Women and the roles they played as negotiators between their people and the palefaces have lifted them above considerations of race into the ranks of the great women of all time.
In books of collected journalism such as Der rasende Reporter ( The Raging Reporter ) ( 1924 ), he cultivated the image of a witty, gritty, daring reporter always on the move, a cigarette clamped doggedly between his lips.
The building was the setting of 2008's Academy Award-winning documentary, Man on Wire, about tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring 1974 walk between the towers.
Muhu is also famous for having the only still-working windmills in the whole country of Estonia, and for the Battle of Moon Sound in September-October 1917 between Russian and German naval forces ( and three daring British submarines ).
These dual ranks, with his reputation for extraordinary daring and his family connections to Confederate leaders, allowed him to play an important liaison role between the South's army, navy and civil government.
The police arrived and Caron made a daring escape, darting between an arresting officer's legs.
It was a daring move, as Hakim had to maintain the right balance between tradition and innovation to keep his local audience happy, while moving towards global audience.
The noted performance artist and researcher Stelarc performed many daring suspensions in the 70's and 80's, including hanging himself between skyscrapers.
" Here Darwin was drawing on his experience of the natives of Tierra del Fuego and daring to think that there was little gulf between man and animals despite the theological doctrine that only humanity possessed a soul.
It is framed as a dialogue from Jesus to the apostles ( it varies significantly as to at which stage in time between the manuscripts ), instigated by a series of extremely daring and outrageous questions and requests by Bartholomew.
The news of what happened between Khabbab and his slave mistress spread throughout Makkah instantly, astonishing people about Khabbab's daring.
Roger Ebert called it " daring, and well-acted ", but also said that it " exists uneasily somewhere between comedy and satire.
" Unusually the chorus features timpani and the transition between verse and chorus creates a daring modulation from C minor ( dorian ) to G-flat major.
While the “ Tripolines ” suffered between 20 to 30 men killed in the action that Lord Horatio Nelson was said to have lauded as “ the most daring act of the age ,” Decatur ’ s force of 70 volunteers suffered only one man wounded in taking the ship to begin her destruction by fire.
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