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daring and display
Blouses have more daring cuts and ample waist display is common.
Blouses have more daring cuts and ample waist display is common.
With a voice as silvery and luminous as a full moon, Harmer constructs daring metaphors to convey emotional perplexities ... songs like the rueful ' Tether ' display Harmer's gift for setting human drama to fresh melodies.
But the corps was engaged on the same field, May 3, 1863, in an action that made it famous with a brilliant display of dash and daring.
These recordings display an artist who had an uncanny sense of sophistication in terms of ornamentation and a fearless bravura approach to the most daring virtuoso pieces.
Public enthusiasm for " those daring young men in their flying machines " encouraged Army pilots to display their skill in an effort to gain public acceptance of the airplane as an ever-capable instrument for American's expanding society.

daring and figure
His daring and notoriety made him an iconic figure in Australian history, folklore, literature, art and film.
" This aria (" What power art thou who from below ") is accompanied by shivering strings, probably influenced by a scene from Act IV of Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera Isis ( 1677 ) but, as Peter Holman writes, Purcell's " daring chromatic harmonies transform the Cold Genius from the picturesque figure of Lully ( or Dryden, for that matter ) into a genuinely awe-inspiring character-the more so because Cupid's responses are set to such frothy and brilliant music.

daring and composition
), Preston preferred to work instead with hand-colouring and to experiment with new techniques, resulting in daring works of radical design, composition and unadulterated colour.

daring and landscape
Stillman's photographs, in their daring perspectives, in their creative synthesis ( inspired by Ruskinian ideas ) of aesthetic feeling and a scientific / scholarly perspective on architectural form, and in their incorporation of the Greek landscape and the modern Greek context of ancient ruins, show a startlingly modern sensibility for their time, a way of seeing utterly different from the commercial photography of contemporary Greeks and foreigners, whose representations tended to cater to the set expectations of the foreign philhellenic and touristic market.

daring and elements
We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.
While he upholds what he calls the great achievements of these revolutions and what he claims they have proven in terms of the possibility of people being able to create a better world, at the same time Avakian has been developing new thinking which he characterizes as real ruptures with elements of the past understanding and experience, a synthesis which he describes as reviving the " viability and, yes, the desirability of a whole new and radically different world, and placing this on an ever firmer foundation of materialism and dialectics … a source of hope and of daring on a solid scientific foundation.
Lluís Permanyer claims that " the gallery at ground level is the facade's most outstanding feature, a daring combination of wrought iron and stone in which decorative historical elements such as a cypress, an olive tree, horns of plenty, and the Catalan coat of arms can be discerned ".

daring and personal
Simon seems to have shown great personal valour and daring as well as being particularly brutal with those close to him who betrayed him-as for example, Martin Algae, lord of Biron.
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.
Ewing's daring defense of the fort and escape through Price's lines made headlines throughout the western theater, and eventually Ewing received the personal thanks of a grateful President, Abraham Lincoln.
Dextraze was a daring leader, he made a name for himself by “ undertaking a number of risky rescues, he once landed his personal helicopter to pick up four missionaries and was forced to keep the rebels at bay until escape was possible.
What a pondering of alternatives within one's choice before the final decision in favour of the daring and unusual prefix, so personal, so attractive ; the final solution of some element in a design that had hitherto proved refractory.

daring and drama
Sanjurjo apparently preferred the drama of flying with a " daring aviator ".
According to Anninsky, " more daring critics drew a parallel with Gogol ... whose final years sort of pre-dated the future drama of Pisemsky: breaking away from the ' progressive Russia ', the ' betrayal ' and the ostracism that followed.

daring and also
It was Maire Gullichsen who acted as the main client, and she worked closely not only with Alvar but also Aino Aalto on the design, inspiring them to be more daring in their work.
" Ticket to Ride ", also released as a single, was felt by Lennon to be " heavy " in its sound compared to the group's previous output and daring in its reference to a boy and girl living together.
The film also won the International Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1949, where it was cited for " a daring inquiry in a clinical case dramatically performed.
" If I owe this triumph to the valour of my troops … you also contributed to it no less by your steadfast daring, by your sage counsel and by your remarkable foresight.
On 23 April 1666 the admirals joined the fleet, and on 1 June 1666 began the great Four Days Battle, in which Monck showed not only all his old coolness and skill, but also a reckless daring which had seemed hitherto foreign to his character.
Rosemary's " slowness " was also unconventional and daring for a debut ( two of the queen's nieces remained in a mental hospital because they were mentally ill ).
However, she also quickly gained a reputation as a skilled and daring pilot who would stop at nothing to complete a difficult stunt.
" Woods also states that " his sense of rubato, while still incredibly daring, is perhaps more un-erring than of even Wilhelm Furtwängler.
Contest audiences of 1971 also noticed that some Combine corps were attempting " Total Programs "-a phrase describing daring, controversial theme-based competitive innovations in costuming, marching and music that were clearly different and more radical than the then-standard norms.
Eliot also alludes to the lines near the end of Marvell's poem, " Let us roll all our strength and all / Our sweetness up into one ball ," with his lines, " To have squeezed the universe into a ball / To roll it toward some overwhelming question ," as Prufrock questions whether or not such an act of daring would have been worth it.
* Helena Bonham Carter as Ingrid Formanek, a daring strong companion to Robert who also knows her limit and agrees to leave Baghdad with the other reporters.
Flying fighter planes such as the Nieuport 17 and the SPAD S. XIII, not only did it gain a reputation for bravery and daring, shooting down a total of 57 enemy aircraft before being absorbed into the U. S. Army Air Service ( USAAS ) in February 1918, but also for recklessness.
He also came to understand that mere acts of bravery and self-sacrifice on the part of a few daring and patriotic individuals will not bring independence to the country.
Although there is still ongoing debate about the Jewish Christian Gospels and " only the very daring, nowadays, venture on speculations in regard to the Gospel of the Hebrews ", most scholars agree with Schneemelcher when he says, " Thus the number of Jewish Gospels -- whether there be one, two or three such gospels -- is uncertain, the identification of the several fragments is also uncertain and, finally the character and the relationship to one another of the several Jewish gospels is uncertain.
Moyzisch, in his 1950 book, pointed out that Bazna was both intelligent and very daring ; he was also convinced that the spy had someone else helping him to locate and photograph the documents, but the second man could never be identified.
The strip also features highly daring " camera angles " and perspectives, often giving the illusion through frames of real motion.
Cao Mao fought personally, and Jia Chong's troops, not daring to attack the emperor, were also deserting.
Although the shoddy record-keeping of the time prevents an accurate tally, he also asserted himself as a daring presence on the base-paths, by some accounts stealing over 100 bases in 1888 and approaching the mark in 1890.
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.
She also must have somehow done it without her husband's knowledge or he was also incredibly daring given that he left his children in her care afterward and he told the police that he had given them the wrong camera case and then gave them the one that was allegedly used to conceal the body.
Chance is also the more daring of the two — in his willingness to take chances ( especially when in the TurboKat ).
Characteristics such as " Strength which prefers questions for which no one today is sufficiently daring ; courage for the forbidden " are also needed.
Ayase also still harbors a strong shyness, despite her daring ; whenever circumstances warrant that she and Seiji ' clash ' more or less romantically, she does not exploit the situation but ends up punching Seiji in embarrassment.

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