Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

He proposed a shoebox auditorium, based on classic designs used for top European symphony halls.

A classic example of this is described in Sir Thomas Roe's diaries, in which the Emperor had his painters copy a European miniature several times creating a total of five miniatures.

Like that of the related apple, the pear fruit is a pome, in most wild species 1 – 4 cm diameter, but in some cultivated forms up to 18 cm long and 8 cm broad ; the shape varies in most species from oblate or globose, to the classic pyriform ' pear-shape ' of the European pear with an elongated basal portion and a bulbous end.

Looking for a way to present the complex existential situation of contemporary humanity, Jarzyna reaches both for contemporary drama ( Witkiewicz's Tropical Madness, Gombrowicz's Princess Ivona, or Frazer's Unidentified Human Remains ...) and classic European novels ( Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, Mann's Doktor Faustus, directed at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin ).

His fame as an explorer helped drive forward the obsession with discovering the sources of the River Nile that formed the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of the African continent.

Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism.

Eventually, literary Attic ( and the classic texts written in it ) came to be widely studied far beyond its original homeland, first in the Classical civilizations of the Mediterranean ( Ancient Rome and the Hellenistic world ), and later in the Muslim world, Europe, and wherever European civilization spread to other parts of the world.

In Chile, many vehicles are fitted with three types of audible warnings, which are sounded all at once: the classic " air " siren, the electronic " yelp ", and the European two-tone air horns ( sometimes newer vehicles are fitted with the electronic version of the latter, commonly called " Hi-Lo ").

In China, however, there was no counterpart to the 19th century European explosion of revolution and romanticism The classic novels of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, represented a pinnacle not reached again.

She came to represent an image of European sophistication, through her " classic beauty and thoughtful, almost melancholic style of acting.

He wrote easily in Latin, in Italian and in Neapolitan, but is best remembered for his humanist classic Arcadia, a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of Arcadia, representing an idyllic land, in European literature.

Amongst Bayern's chief European rivals are Real Madrid, A. C. Milan, and Manchester United due to many classic wins, draws and losses.

Had they been a European car maker, this would have meant nothing ; they could have continued to offer the classic shape not so different from the later Rolls Royce with its vertical grill.

Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art ( 1764 ) was one of the first books written in German to become a classic of European literature.

While most of Aventuria is set in the central European Middle Ages, Myranor is based on a mixture of classic Greek / Roman as well as medieval Asian background.

Young himself reinforced his reputation as a pioneer of romanticism by precept as well as by example ; in 1759, at the age of 76, he published a piece of critical prose under the title of Conjectures on Original Composition which put forward the vital doctrine of the superiority of " genius ," of innate originality being more valuable than classic indoctrination or imitation, and suggested that modern writers might dare to rival or even surpass the " ancients " of Greece and Rome … The Conjectures was a declaration of independence against the tyranny of classicism and was at once acclaimed as such becoming a milestone in the history of English, and European, literary criticism.

In classic European folklore, it was believed that one method to " kill " a vampire, or prevent a corpse from rising as a vampire, was to drive a wooden stake through the heart before interment.

There are other, more unusual exercise styles in which the payoff value remains the same as a standard option ( as in the classic American and European options above ) but where early exercise occurs differently:

This style was chosen by the original general manager, Peter Wilt, to establish a timeless image evocative of both classic American sports ( as in the logos of the NHL Original Six ) and the traditions of European soccer.

The technique and patterning are classic forms in the context of pure European and Peninsular corded ware.

The film has become, much like Dinner for One, a holiday classic in several European countries.

German architect Johannes Schultz ( 1876 – 1883 ) won the project by presenting a more original plan, something that appealed to the King's taste: a grand palatial alpine villa combining different features of classic European styles, mostly following Italian elegance and German aesthetics along Renaissance lines.

While both African and non-African critics agree that Achebe modeled Things Fall Apart on classic European literature, they disagree about whether his novel upholds a Western model, or, in fact, subverts or confronts it.

His recipe for “ Stirred Eggs ” ( Chapter 13 ) is a classic of American comic writing which was recently included in the Library of America anthology of food writing.

The classic recipe for pruno has been attributed to Jarvis Masters, a death-row inmate at San Quentin, in his poem, " Recipe for Prison Pruno.

In 2007 Tizer was re branded with the slogan ' Original Great Taste ' and a classic Tizer recipe with fewer additives and no E numbers.

* Making demi-glace at home — a classic recipe adapted for home cooks

Elena Molokhovets ' classic Russian cookbook ( 1861 ) gives the first known recipe for Govjadina po-strogonovski, s gorchitseju " Beef à la Stroganov, with mustard " which involves lightly floured beef cubes ( not strips ) sautéed, sauced with prepared mustard and bouillon, and finished with a small amount of sour cream: no onions, no mushrooms.

The classic recipe is based on brandy and white crème de menthe, shaken and served in a cocktail glass.

A classic fried fish recipe by the French is the Sole meunière.

Though not in the classic recipe, bartenders sometimes add more flavor to the Mojito cocktail by sprinkling a few drops of Angostura bitter on top.

A traditional chile relleno stuffed with jack cheese and breaded with corn masa flourA variation on the classic recipe using egg batter ( cooking ) | batter rather than dipping in masa flour.

A classic recipe is to fry or grill the legs in a bit of the fat until they are well-browned and crisp, and use more of the fat to roast some potatoes and garlic as an accompaniment.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

It is only then that the ancient habits of feeling and the classic orderings of material and psychological experience were abandoned.

The third Act of Faust 2, is a formal celebration of the union between the Germanic and the classic, between the spirit of Euripides and that of romantic drama.

Faust rescuing Helen from Menelaus' vengeance is the genius of renaissance Europe restoring to life the classic tradition.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

The latest and, significantly, greatest fruit of this theatrical vine is The, an adaptation of Basho's classic frog-haiku by Roger Entwhistle, a former University of Maryland chemistry instructor.

The classic case is Railroad Commission v. Pullman.

The statement also points to a classic paradox: The more men turn toward God, who is not only in himself the paradigm of all unity but also the only ground on which human unity can ultimately be established, the more men splinter into groups and set themselves apart from one another.

More than a beautiful visualization of the illustrious adventures and escapades of the tragi-comic knight-errant and his squire, Sancho Panza, in seventeenth-century Spain, this inevitably abbreviated rendering of the classic satire on chivalry is an affectingly warm and human exposition of character.

Yet there is the classic case of the Gershwins' `` The Man I Love ''.

The new `` School For Wives '' was interpreted according to a principle that is becoming increasingly common in the playing of classic comedy -- the idea of turning some obviously ludicrous figure into a tragic character.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

" Österreichische Kanzleisprache " is now used less and less, thanks to various administrative reforms which have led to there being fewer of the classic civil servants, the Beamter.

The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus ' objection to the label.

The classic example, considered by their American counterparts quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a British organisation of secret agents called the " Special Operations, Executive " — " S. O., E " — which is not found in histories written after about 1960.

The classic work of Jewish mysticism whose origins date back 2000 years, the Zohar, is quoted liberally in all Jewish learning ; in the Zohar the idea of reincarnation is mentioned repeatedly.

The Enquiry is widely regarded as a classic in modern philosophical literature.

A classic example is the evolution of a fourth cusp in the mammalian tooth.

A classic example of this is the replacement of the non-avian dinosaurs with mammals at the end of the Cretaceous, and of brachiopods by bivalves at the Permo-Triassic boundary.

Charles Dickens ' David Copperfield is another such classic, and J. D.

Rice ( Oryza sativa ) is a classic example.