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It is a great spectacle.
Jack Frost is not really responsible for this great seasonal spectacle ; ;
Beaux began attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1876, then under the dynamic influence of Thomas Eakins, whose great work The Gross Clinic had " horrified Philadelphia Exhibition-goers as a gory spectacle " at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876.
These temples, though greatly inferior to their gigantic neighbor, were still larger than that at Segesta, and even exceed the great temple of Neptune at Paestum ; so that the three, when standing, must have presented a spectacle unrivaled in antiquity.
" The spectacle of great works unwritten either because Bizet had other distractions, or because no one asked him to write them, or because of his premature death, is infinitely dispiriting, yet the brilliance and the individuality of his best music is unmistakable.
The reviewer gave particular praise to Hart's directorial skill :" The camera placement here, the simple yet effective symbolism, and the flair for spectacle as in the brilliantly handled mob scenes where all of Inceville goes up in smoke, the real ' feel ' of the old, dusty, unglamorised West, all should have earned Hart a reputation as one of the great directors.
The Water Jump was one of the most popular jumps on the course, presenting a great jumping spectacle for those in the stands and was always a major feature in the newsreels ' coverage of the race.
Rohan arrived at Vienna in January 1772, and made a great spectacle of himself with his lavish entertainments.
Due to the timbalero Tito Puente ( among others ), it is now acceptable for a player – especially a band leader, to use more than two timbales, and a great timbale solo is quite a spectacle.
The spectacle that was made regarding this gift, a salvo in the American Culture Wars, gave MacMonnies and this sculpture a great deal of notoriety in the United States: examples of the Bacchante can be found in the permanent collections of most of the large museums in the United States and France.
Personifying the grand diva, she made a great spectacle wherever she went with her pet dogs on a leash.
There was great outcry, but the body was not removed until an acquaintance of Wilson passed the spot and horrified by the spectacle of McKay's rotting corpse, pleaded with the authorities to remove it.
Bamboo forests are a great spectacle in the Gardens
It ran its course in the great urban spaces of the agora and the amphitheater, the principal settings for public discourse and for public spectacle.
That said, the play was extremely successful in the theater and provided a great deal of spectacle for theater-goers.
The set-pieces are fierce, as is the Casablanca tweak of the last shot, and Wallace's performance — a sad spectacle of a hurting creature caught between light and dark, good and evil — is one of noir's great unheralded triumphs.
The ballet consisted of a myriad of dances in the context of such a sumptuous production that many of the critics and balletomanes felt that the work was merely a gargantuan excuse for spectacle and dances, something made all the more apparent with the spectacular showcasing of the great Pierina Legnani in the principal role.
The expediency of providing for the spiritual — and also, in some degree, for the temporal — needs of Italian emigrants to the Americas was forcibly brought home to Bishop Scalabrini by the pathetic spectacle of a number of such emigrants waiting in the great railway station of Milan.
Patronage by the great figures of the land, and the largest monasteries, became extravagant in this period, and the greatest late Anglo-Saxon churches must have presented a dazzling spectacle, somewhat in the style of Eastern Orthodox churches.
Edenah, the great guardian of Eden Land, witnessed the whole spectacle and grew angry, confining the monsters to an underground realm known as Eggerland.

great and was
Each of those tickets was of great value to its rightful recipient.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.
This was the land of the sladang, the great water buffalo with horns forty inches across the spread.
It was a fortunate time in which to build, for the seventeenth century was a great period in Persian art.
Many believe -- and understandably -- that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede.
The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.
William Gilmore Simms, sturdy realist that he was, pleaded for a natural robustness such as he found in his favorites the great Elizabethans, to vivify the pale writings being produced around him.
United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;
While I was sitting at one of the rewrite telephones with my derby and my great beard, Arthur Brisbane whizzed in with some editorial copy in his hand.
Yet General Suvorov -- who had never forgotten hearing his adored Czarina declare that all truly great men had oddities -- was mad only north, northwest.
It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.
Another classic sight that gave us considerable pleasure was the Evzone sentry, in his ballet skirt with great pompons on his shoes, who was patrolling up and down in front of the palace.
The Boston elders were great at befuddling the opposition with torrents of ecclesiastical obscurities, but Gorton was better.
Peters insisted that this impression was a great misunderstanding, and evidently, from the quarrel, obtained an unfavorable impression of Morgan's judgment.
The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

great and source
A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.
To cite only a few examples: The wrong man in the wrong position, perhaps even in a junior position abroad, can be a source of great harm to our policy ; ;
As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.
`` This is a great national cultural asset, and therefore it is a great source of satisfaction to me, representing as I do today my wife, to welcome all of you here today at the White House ''.
Since the Catholic Church expresses such desire that the Sacred Scriptures be read, the following taken from the Holy Bible ( New Catholic Edition ) will prove a means of grace and a source of great spiritual blessing.
Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.
They named the element " astatine ", a name coming from the great instability of the synthesized matter ( the source Greek word αστατος ( astatos ) means " unstable ").
The investment proved a great success and a source of profit for Woodruff and Carnegie.
Such a thin chronology and little background knowledge has led to gross misinterpretations of his works, and thus further investigation must always be done to conclude with confidence that Aelbert Cuyp is the genuine source of such great paintings.
Co. that a coffee urn manufacturer was liable to a person injured when the urn exploded, because the urn " was of such a character inherently that, when applied to the purposes for which it was designed, it was liable to become a source of great danger to many people if not carefully and properly constructed.
Cardozo's new " rule " exists in no prior case, but is inferrable as a synthesis of the " thing of danger " principle stated in them, merely extending it to " foreseeable danger " even if " the purposes for which it was designed " were not themselves " a source of great danger.
* Questions about the nature and existence of a monotheistic deity, which have profoundly influenced Western philosophy, have not been important in Chinese philosophies or a source of great conflict in Chinese traditional religion.
Distantly related to the imperial family of Constantine, he owed his progression from a less significant Levantine bishopric to the most important episcopal see to his influence at court, and the great power he wielded in the Church was derived from that source.
Indeed, " after the first or perhaps the second century, there is not record of it in any Orthodox source, and it is not recorded as occurring even among the great Fathers of the Egyptian desert, who were so filled with the Spirit of God they performed numerous astonishing miracles, including raising the dead ".
The Pope does not paint an overly romantic picture of marriage: Marital relations are a source of great joy, but also of difficulties and hardships.
Another source distinguishes Islamist from Islamic " by the fact that the latter refers to a religion and culture in existence over a millennium, whereas the first is a political / religious phenomenon linked to the great events of the 20th century ".
While imprisoned, he became actively involved, as an actor, writer, producer, and set-designer, in the amateur theatrical productions which took place in the camp, finding them " a source of great pleasure and amusement ".
In this way, Kelsen contends, the bindingness of legal norms, their specifically ' legal ' character, can be understood without tracing it ultimately to some suprahuman source such as God, personified Nature or — of great importance in his time — a personified State or Nation.
In 2001, inspired by the open source and open access movements, MIT launched OpenCourseWare to make the lecture notes, problem sets, syllabuses, exams, and lectures from the great majority of its courses available online for no charge, though without any formal accreditation for coursework completed.
The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural.
: What the Romanticists brought to art was the primacy of values … Values are the source of emotions: a great deal of emotional intensity was projected in the work of the Romanticists and in the reactions of their audiences, as well as a great deal of color, imagination, originality, excitement, and all the other consequences of a value-oriented view of life.
Smith has been a great source of inspiration for Michael Stipe of R. E. M.

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