The gilt rosettes that once studded its coffered dome evoked the firmament. |
|
These are sung by the soprano Anne Schwanewilms, a new name yes, but definitely a rising and shining voice in the singing firmament. |
|
After all, he lived through a period when Europe's moral firmament was blown to pieces. |
|
It is proving a big leap, this transition from man-child to leading light in the athletics firmament. |
|
The heavens cry and moan as the wind's rage stirs up the burning tempest of the sky, tears are unleashed from the firmament, cold and tasteless. |
|
Of course the 35-year-old is way too grounded to ever imagine herself enthroned in the Hollywood firmament. |
|
This challenged the accepted view of the stars as dead heroes placed in the firmament by the Olympian gods. |
|
Sometimes the lightening forked across the sky like a crack in the dark firmament. |
|
We await with interest word of their further plans for this rising star of an upcoming mid-tier production company in the gold mining firmament. |
|
His head was tilted back, his hands splayed out as if to catch drops from a leaking firmament. |
|
The Roman philosopher Seneca proposed that the auroras were flames slipping through cracks in the heavenly firmament. |
|
With Bush's eyes fixed somewhere above and beyond the firmament, there is every opportunity to belt him severely in the fundament. |
|
Who could endure without fear if he saw the stars of heaven and the firmament itself rushing down and falling before him on the swarded surface of the earth? |
|
We don't need redwoods and whales at all, not for ordinary life at least, no more than we need Plato, Beethoven, or the stars in the firmament of heaven. |
|
The wise shall shine brightly like the splendour of the firmament, and those who lead the many to justice shall be like the stars forever. |
|
Gen 1:20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. |
|
What tutor Taught her that lithe arbitrament That rules our spacious firmament? |
|
The influence of Heaven is diversified by the movement of the firmament and the countermovement of the seven planets. |
|
And then there are weeks when the star-filled firmament shines so dazzlingly bright, it can only be safely looked at through smoked glass. |
|
It printed in the ether of the world a light trail, a sublime universal idea, like a scintillating star in the firmament of mankind. |
|
|
Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven, praised and glorified for ever. |
|
The firmament, as a scenario for tourism in modern times, has been present as a basic reference point in historical destinations. |
|
Kiefer connects life on earth with the starry firmament by means of plaster. |
|
Or the fascination of the firmament, Orion being visible in the world everywhere? |
|
And a Norwegian woman: «This award is like a star shining in the dark firmament of today's world. |
|
In the second half of the 90s, a bright new star began to shine in the French firmament in the shape of the prodigious Zinedine Zidane. |
|
Finland 2003 has lived up to its billing as a showpiece for some of the brightest young stars in the footballing firmament. |
|
Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night. |
|
This time, the suddenness of the fall was reinforced by the fact that it immediately followed her latest explosive re-entry into the political firmament. |
|
Elizabeth's Edwardian childhood was privileged and secure, a world dominated by nurserymaids and governesses, but two dates had fixed points in the firmament of her life. |
|
Seventy plus males all fighting over the remote control, forgetting your birthday or nailing wonky shelves to the firmament without first reading the instructions? |
|
The reader leaves with a better sense of the firmament and frontline fights occurring in the current independent movement. |
|
But his disappearance from the Washington firmament does not mean that the work he used to do is being left undone. |
|
The British film industry had grown and Hitch was a star in its small firmament. |
|
He is a genuine tycoon, an authentic media mogul who dominates the newspapers and networks of his native land as completely as he does its political firmament. |
|
Their underlying design is a spiraling vortex, in which undulating waters magically metamorphose into watered silk, velvet into vaporous cloud and firmament. |
|
Kristol was viewed as a mover and shaker whose ideas had ready impact on the political firmament in Washington. |
|
Socrates was put to death, but the Socratic philosophy rose like the sun in heaven, and spread its illumination over the whole intellectual firmament. |
|
They are awakening to a world in which their planet, though still the biggest in the Canadian firmament, is being eclipsed. |
|
It is as if a strange moon has appeared in the European firmament like a circulating antiaphrodisiac and has lulled Europe into self-negation. |
|
|
It's a subject, she says, that remains eternally captivating. Ms Hambling, who has been painting and sculpting for over 50 years, is a leading figure in Britain's artistic firmament. |
|
The light that surrounded her seemed to open up a path before her in the firmament, and for this reason we sometimes said that we saw Heaven opening. |
|
We are unacquainted with the faces and even the names of many of them, but with the eyes of faith we see them shine in God's firmament like glorious stars. |
|
Evidence shows that all the great cultures of antiquity were aware that Mars behaves unlike the other heavenly bodies that populate the firmament. |
|
There's not a directional design touch in sight – but it's classy and safe and comes during a week when Alamuddin has already confirmed her position in the fashion firmament. |
|
German liberalism failed in 1848, failed again under the Weimar Republic, and became part of the firmament only in West Germany in 1949. In this section The birth of the nation? |
|
Among these re-elected, so-called independent experts were two stars in the human rights firmament, Moroccan Halima Warzazi, outgoing chairperson of this brilliant apparatus, and Cuban Miguel Alfonso Martinez. |
|
It looks as if by sheer dint of professionalism and enthusiasm, this star will stay at the zenith of the French firmament for a long while to come! |
|
To the insider, the ceiling is like a small firmament twinkling with astral radiations. |
|
Like stars in Europe's intellectual firmament stand the fiery eyes of Dante, the clear eyes of Shakespeare, the cheerful eyes of Goethe and the tormented eyes of Dostojewski. |
|
Audemars Piguet also benefited from the occasion to present the latest star destined to shine in the firmament of the brand's female emissaries: Svetlana Zakharova, principle ballet dancer with the Bolshoi Opera. |
|
Suffice it to say that the self-parody of the appellation, singular and majuscule as if affixed in Plato's firmament, appeared to rule out all interpretations competing with that of shenanigan. |
|
The critical firmament and fanboy intelligentsia rose up in dissent. |
|
The book is perhaps too odd to ever quite be a classic, but in any sane literary firmament it would count as a major mooncalf anticlassic. |
|
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. |
|
Teaming up with his pals, such as Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, the singer goes further up his firmament with more broken beats, bleeps and bloops. |
|
And again, we saw the glory of the telestial, which glory is that of the lesser, even as the glory of the stars differs from that of the glory of the moon in the firmament. |
|
Above was the firmament, gemmed with worlds, and sublime in immensity. |
|