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setting and place
' This novel features sorcerers who become destroyed by forbidden knowledge and takes place in the Warhammer 40, 000 setting, itself utilizing Lovecraftian themes.
In many homes an empty place setting is symbolically left at the table for the Baby Jesus or, for a lonely wanderer who may be in need of food, or if a deceased relative should come and would like to share in the meal.
The setting for Doom Resurrection takes place parallel to Doom 3, and it uses characters and art from it.
The 2nd Edition did not alter the setting, though it did update the timeline to include events that took place in Barsaive.
The setting of Earthdawn is the same world as Shadowrun ( i. e. a fictionalized version of Earth ), but takes place millennia earlier.
It may have been largely a court ( meaning place rather than a judicial setting ) to teach manners, as the French courts would be known for in later generations.
While noir is often associated with an urban setting, many classic noirs take place in small towns, suburbia, rural areas, or on the open road ; so setting cannot be its genre determinant, as with the Western.
Reynolds was also responsible for The Mysteries of London which has been accorded an important place in the development of the urban as a particularly Victorian Gothic setting, an area within which interesting links can be made with established readings of the work of Dickens and others.
The setting of the action in a ruined abbey, drawing on Burke ’ s aesthetic theory of the sublime and the beautiful established the location as a place of terror and of safety.
In this painting, only the action that takes place there identifies the setting as distinct from the Garden of the Hesperides, with its golden fruit.
Nelson defines transclusion as " the same content knowably in more than one place ", setting it apart from more special cases such as the inclusion of content stored in a different location ( which he calls " transdelivery ") or " explicit quotation which remains connected to its origins " ( which he calls " transquotation ").
It focuses on the attempted resurrection of the three Serpent Riders by the evil wizard Praevus, and takes place in a fifth continent, Tulku, featuring a Sino-Tibetan setting.
Gamble suggests that The Lord of the Rings takes place in a setting where the primary world does not exist.
" What the film does do is place modern stereotypes in a historical setting, which enables it to indulge in a number of sharp digs, particularly at trade unionists and guerilla organisations ".
In the following stories, human contact and basic exploration had taken place sometime in the past ; Mars is a setting rather than a goal.
The relationship between the two forms is most obvious in the composers who concentrated on sacred music, especially Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose " motets " setting texts from the Canticum Canticorum, the biblical " Song of Solomon ," are among the most lush and madrigal-like of Palestrina's compositions, while his " madrigals " that set poems of Petrarch in praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary would not be out of place in church.
The majority of the gameplay takes place in a medieval fantasy setting.
While the original game took place in a nondescript building, the sequels transposed the action to a polar setting and a desert island.
In first place was the Eagles, but at December 19 they were both tied for first place at 8 – 4, setting up a match for first place.
A number of episodes were also experimental in that they took place entirely in one setting.
The outlook and values of this time and place ( in his own words, " The Bible Belt ") had a definite influence on his fiction, especially his later works, as he drew heavily upon his childhood in establishing the setting and cultural atmosphere in works like Time Enough for Love and To Sail Beyond the Sunset.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do not choose to move from setting to setting, but they appear in a new place without deciding to go there.

setting and sun
* Leonard Cohen's poem " Prayer for Sunset " compares the setting sun to the raving Absalom, and asks whether another Joab will arrive tomorrow night to kill Absalom again.
Taking and developing the landscape style of Lucas Cranach the Elder, he shows the hilly landscape of the Danube valley with thick forests of drooping and crumbling firs and larches hung with moss, and often dramatic colouring from a rising or setting sun.
Caligula is described as the first emperor who was admired by everyone in " all the world, from the rising to the setting sun.
It also included “ information such as weather forecasts, farmers ' planting dates, astronomical information, and tide tables, Astronomical data and various statistics, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more .” Mather had within the text of the Almanac the positions and motions of these celestial bodies, which he must have calculated by hand.
I'd wake up around 5 or 6 pm, depending on whether or not we had dailies, and by the time I got going, the sun would be setting.
The design is also reminiscent of the setting sun half-submerged below the horizon and reflected on the sea.
The distinction between B and C is demonstrated in the following example: In the evening, one can go out and see at the same moment the sun setting, the moon and a few stars ; this is our reality or B.
Along the horizon, the setting sun silhouettes the farm with its abundant stacks of grain, in contrast to the large shadowy figures in the foreground.
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The poem is written in the first person, and is the soliloquy of a young woman contemplating life and death, engagement and withdrawal, love and estrangement, in a setting dominated by the sea, the sky, stars, rocky cliffs, and the rising sun.
The timber circle was orientated towards the rising sun on the midwinter solstice, opposing the solar alignments at Stonehenge, whilst the avenue was aligned with the setting sun on the summer solstice and led from the river to the timber circle.
By setting the index bar to zero, the sun can be viewed through the telescope.
It is then revealed that the entirety of the city whence THX came is all underground, as he stands before a large setting sun in a red sky, while birds intermittently fly overhead ( indicating that life is possible on the surface ).
In fact, there was a total eclipse of the sun in the Aegean on March 5, 1223 BC, which Atreus might have twisted into a setting of the sun in the east.
This effect is easiest to observe at sunset, on the horizon at a 90 ° angle from the setting sun.
A green flash is more likely to be seen in clear air, when more of the light from the setting sun reaches the observer without being scattered.
The structure was completed when Johannes Kepler wrote the book Astronomia nova ( A new astronomy ) in 1609, setting out the evidence that planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus, and that planets do not move with constant speed along this orbit.
The game also featured a unique " Impossible " setting, which lived up to its name, since the sun went nova after only a few turns, destroying the entire planet.
For example, Henry Irving's 1892 King Lear offered spectacles such as Lear's death beneath a cliff at Dover, his face lit by the red glow of a setting sun ; at the expense of cutting 46 % of the text, including the blinding of Gloucester.
The true folk-astronomical definitions of east and west are " the directions, a right angle from the prime direction, that are closest to the rising and setting, respectively, of the sun ( or moon ).
On Durin's Day, when the setting sun and the last moon of autumn were in the sky together, the day's last sunlight would fall on the door and expose its keyhole so that it could be unlocked.
* 2011: On March 25 2011, at approximately 5: 30 PM ( GMT + 3 ) a dust storm swept through Kuwait turning the setting evening sun to immediate darkness reaching minimal visibility in mere minutes.
The Riviera's centre is Genoa, which divides it into two main sections: the Riviera di Ponente (“ the coast of the setting sun ”), extending westwards from Genoa to the French border ; and the Riviera di Levante (“ the coast of the rising sun ”) between Genoa and Capo Corvo.

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