However, the painting itself is visually stunning, with the Luohan portrayed in rich detail and bright, opaque colors in contrast to a hazy, brown, and bland wooded environment.

Most events take place at the famous Pitlochry Festival Theatre, where every year you can get together with over 40 authors, broadcasters, wordsmiths and personalities in a stimulating environment and a stunning place.

Gaming Age editor Craig Majaski described Pikmin as both stunning and having a detailed environment.

Hawthorne reported that “ It ’ s a really stunning piece of architectural sculpture, but the aggressive forms make it a pretty terrible place for showing and looking at art .” The director of the Denver Art Museum, Lewis Sharp, says that one of the most thrilling moments about the building is how the visitors are brought in to seeing the artwork within in an entirely new, exciting environment as the artists ’ work is displayed and hung in over 20 different ways on the dramatic, sloping, obliquely shaped galleries.

Monsters can use the environment to deal out damage to their foes by making weapons of various objects found within the city, such as vehicles and rubble as projectiles, steel girders and stone columns as clubs and radio antennae as a spear to impale others, temporarily stunning them.

It boasts many modern facilities and provides a stunning learning environment for its pupils.

The water is crystal-clear and perfect for sailing, scuba diving and observing the stunning natural environment that makes Dalupiri Island a haven for eco-tourists and anyone appreciative of the region's unspoiled beauty.

During 2008, liberal influences began to wane in the wake of the 2008 – 2009 Keynesian resurgence which the Financial Times described as a " stunning reversal of the orthodoxy of the past several decades ".

His most famous moment occurred in the 1970 World Cup against Brazil, where he pulled off a stunning save from a goalbound header from Pelé, which is often regarded as arguably the greatest save ever.

Sea lions are killed by head-butting or after a stunning blow from a tail fluke.

Once the technical competition had expanded from the challenges of cracking to the challenges of creating visually stunning intros, the foundations for a new subculture known as demoscene were established.

With the maturation of quarterback Doug Williams and future 4-time Pro Bowl tight end Jimmie Giles, the first 1000-yard rushing season from running back Ricky Bell, and a smothering, league-leading defense led by future NFL Hall of Famer Lee Roy Selmon, the Bucs kicked off the season with five consecutive victories, a stunning performance that landed them on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

News is gathered widely and reports on the almost-unbelievable, headline-making stories which Daily Sun journalist / news gatherers write from their encounters with real people, and astounding ‘ eye-witness ’ accounts of bizarre occurrences which are literally stunning.

Of particular note is the Plaza de San Nicolas ( Plaza of St Nicholas ) from where a stunning view of the Alhambra can be seen.

They also possess a stunning range of titanium concentrations ( present in the mineral ilmenite ), ranging from less than 1 wt % TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >, to about 13 wt .%.

Muskies are known for their strength and for their tendency to leap from the water in stunning acrobatic displays.

In the United States, there is the Humane Slaughter Act of 1958, a law requiring that all swine, sheep, cattle, and horses be stunned unconscious with just one application of a stunning device by a trained person before being shackled and hoisted up on the line ( chickens are exempt from this Act ).

More recent historians, such as Donald Kagan and R. J. Buck, have tended to support this analysis, pointing to the role that Thrasybulus played in crafting Athenian strategy in all these battles, and specifically to the decisive action he took at Cyzicus, which saved Alcibiades's force from being swamped, and turned a potential Athenian defeat into a stunning victory.

Another important work from the time was the Violon d ' Ingres, a stunning photograph of Kiki de Montparnasse, styled after the painter / musician Ingres.

One stunning example is the Glens of Antrim in Northern Ireland where nine glens radiate out from the Antrim plateau to the sea along the coast between Ballycastle and Larne.

St Botolph's has a stunning array of sixty two misericords dating from 1390.

Views from the tower are stunning, offering a panorama stretching for many miles in any direction.

One such area is the Isabella Plantation, a stunning woodland garden which was created after World War II from an existing woodland, and is organically run, resulting in a rich flora and fauna.

Headgear offers no protection from the effects of hard punches ( stunning, knockdowns, KOs ).

The goal came from a " stunning " shot from away.

Other criticisms came from former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who said that the building was " not quite stunning ".

They are believed to still-hunt from an elevated perch and then drop on their prey, stunning them with the impact and tearing them apart with their strong bills.

Dr Noble Frankland, the museum's Director from 1960 to 1982, described the museum's galleries in 1955 as appearing ' dingy and neglected in a dismal state of decay ' the museum's ' numerous stunning exhibits ' notwithstanding.

( This is borne out by some limited self-experimentation by early designers of the electric chair and by research from the field of animal husbandry, where electric stunning has been extensively studied.

Pups ( keikis ) form at the base of the stem and can either be divided from the parent plant once they have at least three roots of their own or alternatively, left on the plant these will make a stunning specimen as when mature will produce blooms with the parent plant-many award winning angraecum veitchiis are grown as such.

This stunning string, however, was broken in the third round at Wimbledon in 1983, when the All England Club refused Evert's request to delay her match with Kathy Jordan to recover from food poisoning.

Although the young Swedish King Charles XII ( 1682 – 1718 ; reigned 1697 – 1718 ) won spectacular victories in the early years of the Great Northern War, most notably in the stunning success against the Russians at the Battle of Narva ( 1700 ), his plan to attack Moscow and force Russia into peace proved too ambitious.

A stunning season for Steven was completed when, in February 1985, he was called up by England coach Bobby Robson to make his debut in a qualifier for the 1986 World Cup against Northern Ireland.

In the second round of the 2010 Division 6 playoff games, after a stunning 17-3 first half deficit, the Bruins overcame arch rival Robinson ( and the referees ) with a 24-23 victory on their road to another Northern Region Championship Game led by Michael Nebrich.

His most stunning feat was commanding an English force to victory against a much bigger French force at the Battle of Morlaix in 1342.

In it, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking he is a magician-and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a " magician " in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with such feats as demolitions, fireworks and the shoring up of a holy well.

" In The Anime Encyclopedia, Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy praised the film for its groundbreaking use of English, its " stunning animation " and its high end action sequences, but criticized its short length and lack of a conclusion.

Hendrick Vroom was the earliest real specialist, followed by the father and son team of Willem van de Velde, who emigrated to London in 1673, and effectively founded the English tradition of naval painting, " producing a stunning visual record of the Anglo-Dutch naval wars, which set the conventions of maritime battle painting for the next 150 years ".

Other notable landmarks around Telavi include the Alaverdi Cathedral ( 11th century AD )-the second highest cathedral in Georgia after the newly built Tbilisi Sameba Cathedral, the Ikalto Academy ( 8-12th centuries AD )-where the famous Georgian writer Shota Rustaveli studied, the Church of St. George ( dedicated to the patron saint of Georgia ; it is said that in Georgia there are 365 churches in the name of St. George ), ruins of the city and castle of Gremi ( the former capital of Kakheti from the 15-17th centuries AD ), Shuamta-a complex made up of three churches of different periods-6th, 7th and 8th centuries in a highland forest, Akhali Shuamta (" New Shuamta " in English )-the monastery close to Dzveli Shuamta (" Old Shuamta " in English ), built in the 16th century, the stunning Tsinandali Gardens ( the residential Palace of Noblemen Chavchavadzes family ) and many others.

This year at Hampton a selection of gardens based on poems by well-known English poets was also introduced along side a stunning Rose marquee inspired by Alice in Wonderland.

The recording features the English Chamber Orchestra, Patrick ’ s own choir Conventus and the stunning soprano Elin Manahan Thomas.

A remarkable gift in 1933 by Mrs. Miles White, Jr. of over 200 stunning pieces of Maryland silver formed the nucleus of an impressive silver collection that now embraces objects by leading 18th-and early 19th-century silversmiths in Annapolis and Baltimore, as well as elegant examples of early English silver owned by Maryland families during the Federal era.

Amid rains at The Oval, Jon Lewis had a stunning ODI debut for the English cricket team against Bangladesh, removing Javed Omar and Mohammad Ashraful with successive deliveries before taking out Nafees Iqbal in a good opening spell.

There followed a stunning Madama Butterfly and other important productions and his association with the company continued into the 1980s with his introduction in 1984 of the Canadian Opera Company's surtitles system, whereby an English translation appeared above the proscenium arch.