Somewhat uneven in interest for an average reader, eight or ten of these are among the finest of their kind in literature.

Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;

As autumn starts its annual sweep, few Americans and Canadians realize how fortunate they are in having the world's finest fall coloring.

There are groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, ( including his only surviving full-scale cartoon ), Dürer ( a collection of 138 drawings is one of the finest in existence ), Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Claude and Watteau, and largely complete collections of the works of all the great printmakers including Dürer ( 99 engravings, 6 etchings and most of his 346 woodcuts ), Rembrandt and Goya.

With their careful construction — and in the case of Easy Street and The Immigrant, their social commentary — these films are considered by Chaplin scholars to be among his finest work.

writes: " Most famous horses are said to come either from Sindhu or Kamboja ; of the latter ( i. e the Kamboja ), the Indian epic Mahabharata speaks among the finest horsemen ".

Dar es Salaam also boasts some of the finest schools in Tanzania, most of which are private.

Of others in South Italy and Sicily, the following are the finest: in Sant Andrea, Amalfi ( 1060 ); Salerno ( 1099 ); Canosa ( 1111 ); Troia, two doors ( 1119 and 1124 ); Ravello ( 1179 ), by Barisano of Trani, who also made doors for Trani cathedral ; and in Monreale and Pisa cathedrals, by Bonano of Pisa.

The south door of Beauvais Cathedral is in some respects the finest in France ; the upper panels are carved in high relief with figure subjects and canopies over them.

As with the essentialists, perennialists are educationally conservative in the requirement of a curriculum focused upon fundamental subject areas, but stress that the overall aim should be exposure to history's finest thinkers as models for discovery.

These books, secular perennialists argue, are written by the world's finest thinkers, and cumulatively comprise the " Great Conversation " of mankind with regard to the central human questions.

The finest emerald are approximately 75 % tone on a scale where 0 % tone would be colorless and 100 % would be opaque black.

The finest Chinese kites are made from split bamboo ( usually golden bamboo ), covered with silk, and hand painted.

There are many examples of structures from the Neolithic period, the finest example being the standing stones at Callanish, dating to the 3rd millennium BC.

His sensuous female beauties generally are considered the finest and most evocative bijinga in all of ukiyo-e.

The popularity of golf is also gradually increasing among the masses and many clubs in Karachi like Dreamworld Resort, Hotel & Golf Club, Arabian Sea Country Club, DA Country & Golf Club are providing finest golf facilities to the citizens of Karachi.

Its timber is in the opinion of everyone the most beautiful and finest in the world ... they are most suitable for masts, yards, spars and such.

Coastal cultures such as the Moche and Nazca flourished from about 100 BC to about AD 700: the Moche produced impressive metalwork, as well as some of the finest pottery seen in the ancient world, while the Nazca are known for their textiles and the enigmatic Nazca lines.

The 3rd Duke lent the vase to Josiah Wedgwood, who had already had it described to him as " the finest production of Art that has been brought to England and seems to be the very apex of perfection to which you are endeavoring " by the sculptor John Flaxman.

The deciding committee which evaluates potential candidates described their reasons for choosing Syracuse because " monuments and archeological sites situated in Syracuse are the finest example of outstanding architectural creation spanning several cultural aspects ; Greek, Roman and Baroque ", following on that Ancient Syracuse was " directly linked to events, ideas and literary works of outstanding universal significance ".

The main body of Anguissola's earlier work consists of self-portraits ( the many " autoritratti " reflect the fact that portraits of her were frequently requested due to her fame ) and portraits of her family, which are considered by many to be her finest works.

Clarity, balance, and transparency are the hallmarks of his work, but simplistic notions of its delicacy mask the exceptional power of his finest masterpieces, such as the Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 ; the Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 ; and the opera Don Giovanni.

During the second half of the fourth century, Saint Ambrose, as bishop of Milan, had a strong influence on the layout of the city, redesigning the centre ( although the cathedral and baptistery built at this time are now lost ) and building the great basilicas at the city gates: Sant ' Ambrogio, San Nazaro in Brolo, San Simpliciano and Sant ' Eustorgio, which still stand, refurbished over the centuries, as some of the finest and most important churches in Milan.

Most products bearing the name are not made with the finest cottons from Egypt.

He explains his lack of decoration on the plea that the finest flowers had been already plucked by Chaucer, Gower and Lydgate.

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

"' Forever Changes ' made only a minor dent on the charts when it was first released in 1967, but years later it became recognized as one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love, which doubtless has as much to do with the disc's themes and tone as the music, beautiful as it is ," wrote Mark Deming in an entry for the online Allmusic guide.

Dallas ' spectacular offense, led by Aikman who had the best season of his career by completing 302 out of 473 passes for 3, 445 yards and 23 touchdowns while throwing only 14 interceptions, was one of the league's finest, finishing fourth in the league in total yards.

A 1971 review from Creem stated " My response is that crystallization of everything that is rock ' n ' roll music, at its finest, was to allow my jaw to drop, my body to move, to leap out of the chair ...

The older style zarzuela fell out of fashion, but popular Spanish tradition continued to manifest itself in shorter works, such as the single-scene tonadilla ( or intermezzo ) of which the finest literary exponent was Ramón de la Cruz.

Swan Theatre was created in the 1980s out of the shell of the remains of the original Memorial Theatre, quickly becoming one of the finest acting spaces in the UK.

A great many men had come, but Gyda singled out Olaf, despite the fact he was wearing his bad weather clothes, and the other men wore their finest clothing.

" The magazine described the film as " one of director Wood's finest films ," and praised Robinson's screenplay, " even if he cut out a death from cancer, deleted a mercy killing, and toned down the narrative's homosexual angle.

Seeing that the battle was lost, Zhang Shijie picked out his finest soldiers and cut about a dozen ships from the formation in an attempted breakout to save the emperor.

Some of the crime novels generally regarded as the finest, including those regularly chosen by experts as belonging to the best 100 crime novels ever written ( see bibliography ), have been out of print ever since their first publication, which often dates back to the 1920s or 30s.

A number of performers also enjoyed a renaissance by adopting country sounds, including: the Everly Brothers, whose Roots album ( 1968 ) is usually considered some of their finest work ; former teen idol Rick Nelson who became the frontman for the Stone Canyon Band ; John Fogerty, who left Creedence Clearwater Revival behind for the country sounds of The Blue Ridge Rangers ; Mike Nesmith, who had experimented with country sounds while with The Monkees, formed the First National Band ; and Neil Young who moved in and out of the genre throughout his career.

Vigevano's main attraction is one of the finest piazzas in Italy, the Piazza Ducale, an elongated rectangle that is almost in the ideal proportions 1: 3 advocated by the architectural theorist Antonio Filarete, which is also said to have been laid out by Bramante, and was certainly built for Ludovico il Moro, starting in 1492-93 and completed in record time, unusual for early Renaissance town planning.

He laid out a half-mile racetrack on his property and purchased the finest horses that money could buy, soon accumulating a string of horses that was the envy of northern Illinois.

: In the 1840's there grew up such a strife between the cities of Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, as to which ( city ) could send out the finest boats and as which of these boats could make the shortest time between the two cities.

Upon completion of the mission, Hogan yells to Kinch to end the fight, and Kinch lays the German out with one punch whereupon Hogan throws in the towel and surrenders the fight to prevent the obvious disaster of a Black POW defeating the " master race's finest boxer.

The album was later hailed as " the most important and passionate record to come out of soul music, delivered by one of its finest voices ".

Millions of gallons of the finest stoneware were manufactured and shipped out on the Ohio canal.

On 15 September 1916 the NSW executive of the Political Labour League, Frank Tudor ( the Labor Party organisation at the time ) expelled Hughes from the Labor Party, after Hughes and 24 others had already walked out to the sound of Hughes's finest political cry " Let those who think like me, follow me.

Atherton's finest performances came when he was " against the wall ", such as his monumental 185 not out in 643 minutes to salvage a draw against South Africa, and his negation of an outstanding Allan Donald onslaught in 1998, and that this prompted Steve Waugh to dub him " The Cockroach " ( being very hard to stamp out ).

Perhaps her finest hour-in an episode shown by the BBC in tribute to Dandy in 1986-was when, in 1974, Else took a leaf out of Prime Minister Edward Heath's book and went on a " three day week ", forcing Alf to fend for and feed himself on her days off.

TV Guide said James Stewart gave " one of his finest performances in this lighthearted film ", and it currently has five out of five stars on their site.

Critical reaction was extremely positive ; Pitchfork awarded the album a 9. 7 out of 10, and Allmusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that it was " arguably Yo La Tengo's finest and most coherent album to date.

The finest stalactites are in the three halls called the Mysterieuses, the Vigneron and the Draperies where is " the tomb ", which looks as if chiselled out of white marble.