It is these mighty prelates who gave Salzburg its stately buildings and living legacy of some of the grandest music ever written. |
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Geisha parties are considerably more exclusive and expensive than the grandest British gentlemen's clubs. |
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And the greatest possible power can surely sustain the grandest imaginable promises. |
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The Romans had the biggest and the grandest gladiator fights in the colosseums where one always beat the best. |
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But this book, McEwan's grandest and most ambitious yet, is much more than the story of a single act of atonement. |
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Yet a current show there, on one of the grandest of all illuminated manuscripts, does both. |
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However, he and his wife built two of the grandest private residences in the country. |
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One of the grandest old lodgings is the Jamaican Inn perched on a cliff above a secluded slice of beach. |
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Seen in reproduction, it is hard to conceive of the monumentality and refulgence that the grandest of them possess in the flesh. |
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All Lang's projects were on the grandest scale, too many of them overambitious. |
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The stair hall became the site of the grandest mantelpiece the house had to offer, and inglenooks were in high vogue. |
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A few words like that are sweeter than an epitaph on the grandest tombstone ever raised. |
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They ooze with money, flex their corporate muscles, and exude certainty about how to call the shots for the nation's grandest institutions. |
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You can provoke consideration of the grandest themes by telling a simple, everyday story. |
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He still believed, like Eddie, that the smallest of men could gain stature from holding onto the grandest ideals. |
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We were surrounded by the old-fashioned glamor of the lobby of the grandest hotel in this posh French seaside resort. |
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But it was her free climbing, often performed on the grandest possible scale, where she made history. |
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The stages in Stalin's ascent were marked by crushing opposition on the grandest scale. |
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It is also famous for being one of Europe's grandest imperial cities. |
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Most gastronomic tastemakers agree America does not have the grandest tradition of culinary art. |
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By the entrance are various commemorative plaques honouring the visits of recent British royalty and grandest noblemen of Norman roots, such as the Duke of Norfolk. |
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Neither passive nor whimsical, this power of supposition underlay the simplest intentions and grandest plans. |
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There is a fullness and passion to the Victorians that made them put their grandest thoughts and kinkiest fantasies on the same canvas. |
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Audley End is one of England's grandest country homes with over 30 lushly decorated rooms to enjoy. |
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The grandest hotel is the Pfister, the local theatre is the Pabst, and one of the main streets is North Teutonia Avenue. |
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Wagner's Ring Cycle, one of the grandest of all operas, inspires a certain ludic levity. |
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The grandest of the Masters upon earth is Lord Dattatreya, whose attire is inconceivably simple. |
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It is by far the grandest of all the special temples of Nature I was ever permitted to enter. |
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In 1861 a huge crowd assembled for the laying of the foundation stone at the grandest monument, near Stirling. |
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The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls of domestic privacy. |
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A seasoned pilot and a watch brand that has lived through some of the grandest hours in aviation history. |
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The recapitulation follows, and Rachmaninoff's longest, grandest, most expansive symphonic work ends in a veritable blaze of sound. |
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Not only is she in a country where people speak her language, but she also plays on her favourite surface at one of tennis' grandest events. |
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It is not only a proud landmark of the small town but also one of the grandest town halls of the late-Gothic architectural style. |
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The grandest of the events is in January in San Francisco, where more than 7,000 wine lovers show up to taste virtually every Zinfandel made, in an atmosphere of madcap fun. |
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Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, and Rock Hudson all stayed at El Paisano, still the grandest hotel in town. |
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Still, Horowitz faces stiff competition when it comes to becoming a man in the grandest fashion. |
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The evolution and geology of the planet, then, is intricately linked on the grandest of scales with the evolution of life. |
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It was formerly the grandest church in Eastern Christendom, Sancta Sophia, that was battled over for centuries and subsequently turned into a mosque. |
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In the formal gardens, the grandest expanse of all running the full length of the house is the Italian garden, laid out as a geometric parterre with herbaceous plants. |
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It's home to one of the grandest long galleries and staircases in England. |
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Westminster Abbey, rebuilt in the Romanesque style by King Edward the Confessor, was one of the grandest churches in Europe. |
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The grandest entrance to the Palace of Westminster is the Sovereign's Entrance beneath the Victoria Tower. |
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When Brahms died, his adopted city of Vienna gave him one of the grandest funerals in its history, while flags in his native Hamburg flew at half-mast. |
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Space science provides a unique vantage point from which to study the natural environment on the grandest possible scale and from which to deliver communications. |
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Having figured prominently with Korea DPR at two FIFA youth tournaments, Kim is naturally hoping to play an inspirational role with Chollima on the world's grandest football stage. |
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Lord Maitreya stands out as the grandest Master of the 8-fold path of Yoga and Lord Buddha extends his cooperation to Lord Maitreya in elevating the beings into higher states of consciousness. |
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Burghley house, the largest and grandest house of the first Elizabethan age, has been home of the Cecil family for more than 400 years and was used in filming as the home of Lady Catherine de Bourg. |
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After a flood of Lake Texcoco, the city was rebuilt under the rule of Ahuitzotl in a style that made it one of the grandest ever in Mesoamerica. |
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Venice's leading families vied with each other to build the grandest palaces and support the work of the greatest and most talented artists. |
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The grandest of the mills no longer used for textile production is Lister's Mill, the chimney of which can be seen from most places in Bradford. |
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So when the Kristiansand Symfoniorkester approached him to develop a project based on Reinhardt's work, Larsen seized the opportunity to imagine things on the grandest possible scale. |
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But his grandest project so far has little to do with infrastructure. |
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Similarly, the distribution of matter in the universe, at least at the grandest scales, is strikingly homogenous when it might be expected to be random. Inflation disposes of these difficulties. |
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Knighton Gorges Manor was one of the grandest manor houses on the Isle of Wight. |
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For example, the Roman Empire existed by virtue of the grandest application of technology that the world had seen: its roads, bridges, aqueducts, tunnels, sewers, vast buildings, metallurgy and agriculture. |
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To take it one step further from the proverbially butterfly wing-flap, in the clamour to condemn Clarke and beatify the anonymous till worker, we see the playback of one of the grandest cosmic dramas of them all. |
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BookVenture invites writers to take advantage of its grandest and most generous promo of the year. |
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Grendey's orientalising lacquerwork found the firm the grandest of clients in Britain and overseas. |
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Take part in a unique journey on the wildest stretch of the fjord and admire nature at its grandest with its escarpments, islands, spectacular waterfall and more. |
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In 1994 he was elected mayor of Istanbul, Turkey's grandest city, on the fulcrum between Europe and Asia. Even his fiercest critics acknowledge that he did the job well. |
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Whether done as efficiently and prudently as it could be is a matter of debate, but I think all of those things are in the process of being brought forward, and all on grandest scale we have ever seen. |
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The Eagle Tower at the western corner of the castle was the grandest. |
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Viewed at closer range, and internally, denuded of the fantastic, it is only what it poses to be, the deepest, awesomest, grandest fissure in the world. |
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The TV said Deir Samaan is one of the oldest and grandest churches in the world where Saint Simeon led a hermitic life, vowing to spend his life worshipping the Lord. |
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The grandest of Taipei's hotels, the Grand Hyatt sets the standard for style and luxury in one of Asia-Pacific's most dynamic cities, the Taiwan capital of Taipei. |
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Now it was time for the grandest turkey of the World Slam, the Ocellated. |
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