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"astride" Definitions
  1. with legs or feet wide apart
  2. with one leg on each side
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What keeps Mr Trudeau astride the unicorn is the economy.
Zabit Magomedsharipov's gangly frame stands astride two of MMA's favorite fetishes.
Giant griffins swoop out of the sky with warriors astride their backs.
Iran sits astride major fault lines and is prone to frequent tremors.
She rides astride a ferocious tiger, charging into battle and destroying evil.
A patron stood astride one, a little obscenely, drying his pant legs.
We need a Gandalf to stand astride the Bridge of Khazad Dum.
Unlike the drawings, he's not standing astride a mountain and bellowing weird things.
They sit astride horses and brandish guns, looking mysterious, powerful and utterly independent.
The city sits astride an extensive transportation network of trains, planes and automobiles.
The Basque region lies astride the French-Spanish border on the Atlantic coast.
"I'm afraid that what we breathed will give us cancer," said Astride Marchais.
He's the guy who likes to release pictures of himself barechested astride a horse.
Here's the world-land-speed-record holder Malcolm Campbell astride a Harley in 1935.
The subjects are pictured standing, sitting, cooking, astride their motorbikes, playing instruments, and working.
When it's done, a long-haired granite warrior, sitting astride a horse, will point Southeast.
The Socialist party, which led the parliamentary revolt, will now sit astride a shaky government.
Roosevelt is often trotted out astride his moose for discussions of the problem of deepfakes.
Future generations are never going to see a bronze version of Trump astride his mount.
The archipelago lies astride the equator and is subject to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation phenomenon.
My tits bounced with the rhythm I kept astride him, his warm hands on my hips.
That's why she wakes Mickey up in the middle of the night, astride her completely naked.
For now, the best the phalanx can do is to sit astride the anti-Trump fence.
High above, two movable panels sit astride the large opening in the center of the roof.
But is she ready for a guy riding in to win her heart astride a unicorn?
These relationships are critical for Iran since those countries sit astride its northern and western borders.
It depicts the Confederacy's top general, larger than life, astride a horse, both green with oxidation.
With little more than whispers, the soldiers arranged themselves in a triangle astride a mountain footpath.
After all, Disney and Netflix now stand astride the plains of streaming media like two great stags.
Geographically, it is sandwiched between Russia, China and the Middle East, astride once and future trade routes.
So she incorporated that too, appearing at the beginning of the ceremony astride her mother's horse Chispa.
She rode astride like a man, and, to the unsuspecting eye, could pass as a cattle rancher.
Stonewall Jackson sternly astride his horse in the middle of a Richmond intersection — I lost my moorings.
Sulawesi is one of the earthquake-prone archipelago nation's five main islands and sits astride fault lines.
Palu sits astride the Palu-Koro fault, which runs north-south along the edge of Palu Bay.
He steps to the side, trips the lamb, drags it struggling only a little, and sits astride.
It was a striking scene, of the leader of a nuclear-armed nation astride his majestic horse.
More specifically, why is a depiction of Steve Buscemi astride a beautiful stallion good for the political process?
Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson, astride their horses, occupy nearly two acres of sheer mountainside.
There is a feeling that, no matter what happens, European domestic leagues will always sit astride the globe.
The comedian appears astride a horse in a promo for Inside Amy Schumer, which returns on April 21.
Out There As competition with Europe heats up, astronomers pitch their dreams of giant telescopes astride the Earth.
The photo showed a man in a gleaming suit, sitting proudly astride Sultan, the lion who killed him.
His future father-in-law arrived in midmorning astride a limping, rolling-gaited woods horse of indifferent color.
We're deep in the forest that blankets most of the snow-covered region of Tall Trees, sat astride horses.
It depicts Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and Mr Trump both sitting barechested astride their horses and holding hands.
Lockport is a beautiful small town that sits astride the Erie Canal just a short drive from Niagara Falls.
He was a powerful, stocky pitcher from California and he dominated his mound like a tenor astride his stage.
In fact her entire campaign seems predicated on standing astride the progressive and the moderate left to appease exactly nobody.
The reigning queens of England and Scotland in the sixteenth century sit astride those strict dividing lines, never completely belonging.
In a narrow pen, he tightens straps and lowers himself astride the bare back of a brown, 900kg (2,000lb) bull.
The sleepy city is surrounded by lush farms and sits astride the tourist trail, both of which should provide jobs.
She meets Jin, a mysterious fugitive, and is soon astride a mythical horse fleeing across the dangerous, djinni-filled desert.
His arrival at the polling place Tuesday morning, astride a galloping horse, could be seen as a pre-victory dance.
Moore arrived to his polling place in Gallant, Alabama, around midday on Tuesday, riding astride a brown-and-white horse.
But she found her métier in faster, more dangerous pursuits astride motorcycles and at the helm of rocket-fueled cars.
Some came astride motorcycles, members of a local club in leather jackets who gunned their engines as they rode up.
Perched astride her TT bike, red wheel rims slicing through the gloom, Dygert started like a rocket and was relentless.
Geographically astride the world's busiest and most strategic shipping lanes, the region is the fulcrum of the administration's rebalancing toward Asia.
The Lannisters stand astride the country like colossi, but their power is mostly illusory — they mostly gain it from trampling everybody.
The farming communities astride the proposed high-speed rail line through the Central Valley have a combined population of around 0.53m.
In another, a woman smokes a cigarette astride an old bicycle, protected from the weather in a zippered plastic rain jacket.
The park, which sits astride a tunnel, offers an ideal spot to watch the trains below as they emerge into daylight.
Geographically astride the world's busiest and most strategic shipping lanes, the region was the fulcrum of the administration's rebalancing toward Asia.
Relatively poorer than fellow emirates Dubai and Abu Dhabi, mountainous Fujairah sits astride the Indian Ocean on the country's East coast.
The couple were in Mykonos, Greece, with Union, 44, sitting astride her NBA star husband's shoulders trying to get a sexy photograph.
It's easy to adhere to Starfleet's principles when things are going well, when the Federation stands astride the galaxy like a colossus.
Please tell us you've at least had your image rendered in delicate oil brushstrokes astride a rearing horse or other large mammal?
Comfortably astride this "land bridge," Iran could more readily threaten U.S. allies by entrenching missiles and proxy forces in Syria and Lebanon.
This one also has the most Balearic video, as Cliff stands beachside, astride an actual Cliff and throws some oddly tense shapes.
Judging by the legions of backpacks, hostels and prominent Wi-Fi signs, it sits firmly astride the trekking circuit of Latin America.
She did this while struggling to project both toughness and compassion standing astride three institutions — business, politics and wrestling — dominated by men.
It's unclear which of the many tacos on the menu she sits astride, but the best of them is the asado negro.
Don King stood astride its bow, dressed like a Reagan-era Bruce Springsteen (faded jean jacket; swatches of red, white, and blue).
The 26th US President and former NYC Police Superintendent is depicted by artist James Earle Fraser with masculine vitality astride a horse.
There is also the Fed's multitrillion-dollar securities portfolio amassed in the QE programs that sits like a giant blob astride the market.
The narrator's pose — legs astride, puffed chest and hands along his waist — recalls Superman, whose creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were Jewish.
We followed motorcyclists astride Harleys in leather chaps and retirees in R. V.s and polyester slacks on the way to our camp site.
Globalism is an ideology of winners who stand astride our society as it is being remade by dramatic economic, demographic and cultural changes.
Still, the airport and the Ghazlani base are important terrain and sit astride the southern approach to the old part of the city.
The city holds many advantages: it sits handily astride two continents in a country with a huge domestic market and an aviation-friendly government.
A woman with big haunches sat astride a stool next to a parked scooter; she was peeling onions into a steel plate and laughing.
First he, and more recently his grandson, Kim Jong Un, the North's current dictator, were depicted astride a white charger, just like Emperor Hirohito.
Joanna shared a snap of the pair astride two red Vespa scooters and donning matching helmets, captioning it with a heart emoji and #Italy.
Sitting astride the Suez Canal, one of the great trade arteries of the world, Egypt should be well placed to benefit from global commerce.
Astride the mango atoll stands a creamy scoop of shrikhand, a thick strained yogurt mixed with sugar, almond powder and a pinch of cardamom.
And so, here I was, with a projector emitting a rather distinctive image of a young hero astride a horse, bounding over endless plains.
Past presidents have openly pined for circumstances that allowed them to sit astride history, emerging as the great men they believe themselves to be.
CreditCreditCollection Dautheville Anne-France Dautheville is 260 in 21973, astride a Moto Guzzi 21975 motorcycle on the way to Tehran, traveling alone cross-continent.
The packaging is Pepto pink, with a purple gradient down the side and, on the front, a bespectacled girl astride a cereal-munching bird.
It is no surprise that he ends his collection with a boy astride a bike on Vicolo Paul Strand, steadfastly holding the viewer's gaze.
Wuhan sits astride the mighty Yangtze River, and the restaurants and hotels along its banks — usually busy in the holiday season — were mostly shut.
Archipelagos circumscribe China's Pacific coast, and archipelagic states sit astride the oceanic routes that connect East Asia with the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
Barzini, truly a writer to watch, positions herself astride both American and Sicilian cultures, and packs this visceral book with strong sensations from both.
Even for Game of Thrones, the moment in "The Spoils of War" when Daenerys swept onto the battlefield astride a dragon was particularly spectacular.
One boy, Edris, his clothes dirty, his face chapped and snot dangling from his nose, sat astride the poor woman's headstone, rocking back and forth.
While the Singapore summit was mostly positive for Trump, putting him astride the world stage, Friday morning's press gaggle was a much more mixed bag.
Editorial Italy sits astride a convergence of major and minor fault lines that makes it one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world.
Some homes, farms and businesses even sit astride the two countries; in other areas, a small white obelisk is the only marker of a border.
There's no indication whatsoever that Roosevelt on a moose, let alone Taft astride an elephant or Wilson on a donkey, "went viral" in the 1910s.
Great swoops of cable arc from one pylon to the next, each tower a child's line drawing of a robot standing astride our puny world.
There are pictures of my mother, in the desert astride a camel, in high heels and a sleeveless, bias-cut, billowing black-silk CdG dress.
The volcano also sits astride the mid-ocean ridge separating the Pacific plate to the west and the Juan de Fuca plate to the east.
Photos sent from Rodriguez's cell phone show the boy grinning astride his black mountain bike in one shot, tucking into a hamburger at McDonald's in another.
Amy Schumer and Seth Rogen make dick jokes, sit astride horses, visit the nation's capital, and quote Independence Day in the service of watery light beer.
Sitting astride the mighty Drogon, Daenerys destroys the long line of loot trains the Lannisters stole from Highgarden and blazes through her enemies with startling ease.
We already know that Daenerys will be riding Drogon into battle — the big question is, who will be sitting astride the other two fire-breathing beasts?
Simultaneously, hundreds of IS fighters and their families emerged from their caves in the Qalamoun mountains, astride Lebanon's border with Syria, and boarded buses heading east.
The geography of China's coastal waters has forced Beijing to base its missile submarines in this area, astride one of the world's most important shipping lanes.
She stops at the El Royale, a motel astride the border of Nevada and California, on her way to a performance in Reno the following night.
For Trump's Cabinet, she turned to Albrecht Dürer's woodcut illustrations of the Book of Revelation, which feature the Whore of Babylon astride a many-headed monster.
Bowers's colorful posters feature only black and brown women and girls, holding signs reading "Transfeminism" and "Vote for Women," or astride horses outside the Nation's capital.
When Pozzo delivers his much-quoted, annihilating pronouncement — the one that begins "they give birth astride a grave" — it's in the tones of a crypt keeper.
"Ready, guys?" he said, looking toward his support crew — grandpas with long white beards, one driving a white station wagon barefoot, the other astride a bike.
A pas de deux in which the dancers astride the rocking chairs arch and bow their torsos, arms raised like birds in flight, is particularly moving.
Only after Kim Jong Il's own death in 2011 did he too begin to appear in the statuary, starting with him and his father astride mythical horses.
In 2000, Viacom then paid over $37 billion to buy CBS, reuniting the two businesses decades after separating and creating a true colossus astride the media landscape.
Sitting astride one of the world's key oil shipping lanes, Bahrain is a key ally of Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia and hosts the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet.
A massive piece of art by Ismael Rodriguez, features an angelic figure standing astride the ruined bodies and buildings of war, backlit by a haze of death.
But its vast expanse—it is four times larger than Britain—and its position astride migration and smuggling routes across the Sahara have pushed it to prominence.
And there he caught the silhouette of a man astride a bicycle—a phantom navigating a deep blue slope down to the Border Patrol's very own road.
Clark likes to present himself as an American hero, standing bravely astride the thin blue line that separates law-abiding citizens from the ravages of lawless barbarians.
Klimt was determined to make this particular image, our status amid the moons and Pluto astride these two ships, into a sort of masterpiece all its own.
One was John Canaday of The New York Times, who reviewed a 1971 exhibition, at the art dealer French & Company, of paintings depicting women astride various animals.
Created by James Earle Fraser, and owned by the city, it depicts Roosevelt astride a horse and flanked by a Native American man and an African man.
But rather than topple those gods, "Watchmen" ushered in an era in which these golden idols stand taller than ever, astride the entire culture, casting inescapable shadows.
Sitting astride the swan, we cannot tell from the young woman's expression — a lozenge for a mouth and two small, impenetrable circles for eyes — what she is thinking.
In Monday's test flight, the device hovered upward about 200 meters and whirred for about five minutes over a windswept patch of sand astride the emirate's Gulf coast.
And even the most modest woman's option here was a playhouse — a humble Teva-like sandal slapped onto a thick saw-toothed sole, with gold clasps astride it.
In 1973, she became the first woman to ride across the world solo on a motorcycle: Astride a Kawasaki 125, she trekked three continents and covered 12,500 miles.
Astride sea lines between the North Atlantic and the Arctic, Iceland also likely provides "geographical advantages in terms of things we're worried about the Russians doing," Skaluba said.
This is a fairy tale world, and the colors are unreal — the woman astride the tired horse in "Dawn" (2017) is painted in a variety of green hues.
Pakistan essentially amounts to a relatively indefensible sliver astride the Indus River, with flat plains in the east and mountain redoubts populated by hostile tribes in the west.
It's one of the most famous movie images of all time: Marilyn Monroe standing astride a subway vent and laughing as her white dress billows above her waist.
A business card from its prime boasts "English Spoken" and a bar Americain, and depicts a joyous, scantily clad lady astride a rooster, and holding a cocktail glass.
When the Fukushima samurai gathered in 2011 for their annual three-day festival of Soma-Nomaoi, they were dressed in traditional military robes astride horses clad in armor.
The movie opens with a rush as she arrives at a launch site astride the roof of a carriage, her peacock-hued frock and feathered headdress fluttering gaily.
They are prepared with a secret sour-lemon mix and dispensed from an ancient frozen-yogurt machine; plastic animals sit astride the salted rims of the oversized glasses.
Sitting astride his electric scooter with a surgical mask strapped to his face, Zhao said restaurant orders have dwindled, while more and more people are ordering from grocery stores.
It's Clue, but instead of a stuffy British mansion, its set in a seedy past-its-prime Lake Tahoe hotel that sits astride the border of California and Nevada.
Humanity has always liked to go fast, whether it's been astride a galloping horse or by strapping sticks to your feet and pushing yourself off a snow-covered mountain.
The Arabs could flourish again: they have great rivers, oil, beaches, archaeology, youthful populations, a position astride trade routes and near European markets, and rich intellectual and scientific traditions.
At the rally, dozens of supporters wore suspenders, mimicking photographs of the bar's patrons over the years, and clothes bearing the bar's logo of a jockey astride a horse.
In North America, for instance, Native Americans sit astride big hydrocarbon reserves and pipeline routes, and their sovereignty is making it harder for the fossil fuel companies to proceed.
" I love to imagine him astride a plank of that raft "as though he were riding a horse," and "for two days and nights driven about over swollen waves.
"Barzini, truly a writer to watch, positions herself astride both American and Sicilian cultures, and packs this visceral book with strong sensations from both," our critic, Janet Maslin, wrote.
In July, two teenagers were arrested after carrying out five acid attacks in a little over an hour, in some cases blinding victims astride mopeds and stealing the vehicle.
Like, for instance, the encounter between Billy and a cowboy named Fata Morgana (Pinder), who enters astride a horse (Anselmi, wearing tap shoes to make the hooves' clip-clop).
According to Mr. Xi, Taiwan is destined to become an integral part of his so-called China Dream, a vision of an economically successful Communist China astride the world.
After years of planning, the bronze statue of Lee, astride a horse atop a granite pedestal, was unveiled in 1890 in front of a crowd of up to 25,000 people.
Eliot KalmanAthens, Ohio Astride his golf cart Trump rides o'er the dale, Through turf and sylvan groves with sand traps nigh, A Sphinx leaps toward him, waving claws and tail.
Around a light switch on the wall is an ornamental plate shaped like a piece of parchment paper with an eagle at the top, astride a shield of stars and stripes.
The conflict inherent in the fact that the Law Lords sat astride both parliamentary and judicial horses was resolved when their judicial role was hived off to a new Supreme Court.
And seeing the costume designer Mark Bridges astride the thing at the end, with Helen Mirren at his side, was a silly and charming conclusion to an otherwise surprisingly dry night.
Decades from now, if and when the sculpture is completed, the man will be sitting astride a horse with a flowing mane, his left arm extended in front of him, pointing.
The disruptions and attempts by the police to breach campuses — considered a last refuge by activists — quickly led to protesters occupying five universities, two of which sit astride key transportation routes.
Iran and the Philippines have been the most frequently challenged countries over the years, mainly because they sit astride busy sea lanes whose use they have tried to limit or govern.
Shooting from inside his car, on a bright day, he found a guy in black leather astride a motorcycle, waiting for a light to change near the Hollywood Palladium (6215 Sunset).
It is the key state in the South Caucasus and sits astride the Black Sea, which Moscow uses as a launchpad to project military power toward the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Larry Page, one of the co-founders of Google, has put his money into several such projects, including the Kitty Hawk Flyer, which the rider sits astride much like a flying motorcycle.
Astride the main road between Mosul and Syria, Tal Afar has been a center for insurgents in Iraq since 2003, producing several senior Islamic State members and many of its foot soldiers.
But on a recent spring afternoon he sat perfectly astride a blond pony in a barn in Forest Hills, Queens, and showed everyone how he felt, erupting into applause at his accomplishment.
Throughout the video for "Shut Up Kiss Me," she shifts from one attitudinal pose to another — seated calmly with chin jutting out, leaning back on a bar stool, astride a vintage Mercedes.
The first is the concentration of online advertising revenue in the hands of Google and Facebook — global monopolies sitting astride public discourse, diverting money that used to go to publishers to themselves.
Astride the old French colonial Route 9 and just six miles east of Laos, the Khe Sanh Special Forces base sat on a plateau in a valley, deep within the Annamite Mountains.
Though Staples and Office Depot stand astride the industry of selling paper clips and Post-it notes to businesses, the two retailers have suffered from the rise of e-commerce giant Amazon.
Sometimes on horseback, sometimes by foot, in a car or astride motorbikes, occasionally in a tank—having strayed far from the main phalanx—and every now and then from above, in helicopters.
In Coon Rapids, a quiet town of 1,300 astride the Middle Raccoon River, I went searching for the farm that an agriculturally curious Soviet premier, Nikita S. Khrushchev, came to visit in 1959.
In Charlottesville, it all started when the city council voted narrowly in February to remove the bronze statue, which was installed almost a century ago and depicts Lee in uniform astride a horse.
It was there one night, she said, that he sat astride the chair behind her as she worked at a desk, pressed his erection against her body and fondled her hand, thigh and breast.
The 9,500-pound statue, which depicts Mr. Forrest astride his horse, King Phillip, was dedicated to the city of Memphis in 1905 and erected as an "enduring monument" to the onetime Confederate lieutenant general.
Doyle's book tells the story of how rivers have shaped the United States from its founding, when cities were located astride rivers that served as transportation arteries for goods to move up- and downstream.
Inside the List GODZILLA VERSUS MOTHRA: James Patterson's latest diversion, "The Store," is about a mass-market behemoth standing astride the globe, anticipating and manipulating customers' desires in a bid for total cultural domination.
This image resembled nothing more than "The Rhodes Colossus," a famous jingoistic cartoon from 1892 in which the racist, empire-building diamond tycoon Cecil Rhodes stood similarly astride Africa, from Cairo to Cape Town.
Charismatic C.E.O.s are often famous, and they make good copy; in 1997, business magazines featured photographs of C. Michael Armstrong, the incoming C.E.O. of A.T. & T., astride his Harley, riding to the company's rescue.
For the latest in Reuters' "Life Lessons" series, the 67-year-old sat down to toast a life that has gone from cold-calling Boston bartenders to sitting astride a $0003-billion success story.
A monument of Forrest astride his horse towered over a public park in the city for more than a century until shortly before Christmas, when the city overcame state opposition to finally dismantle it.
In the National Museum, she laughs at a painting, once considered pornographic, of a young woman astride a frothing stallion, then discreetly photographs art students who are copying other 19th-century paintings in the galleries.
The spectrum has been stretched to the breaking point, and autism now sits astride a social fault line between what's considered normal and what's pathological, what's an eccentricity and what's in need of expert therapy.
Statues of men in uniform, Union and Confederate, astride their big horses, still dot the landscape of the North and the South: Brave men, no doubt, but where were the women during those bloody years?
Mr. Selby grew up on a ranch astride the Equator in Kenya, watching enormous herds of zebra and impala, sniffing for lion and Cape buffalo, listening to an elephant scream and hyenas giggling at sundown.
As cofounder and minister of liberation, Williams has stood astride poverty and fame for half a century; he marched in Selma, he's counted the Mandelas and Obamas and Oprahs and Bonos of the world as friends.
You, sitting on the edge of the bed while I sat facing you, astride your lap, and Jeanne was behind me, breasts grazing my shoulder blades, as she grasped my hips and made me your doll.
But what&aposs more important than that, Sean, is that you are watching a president of the United States who has astride the globe, and he is being assisted ably a secretary of state in full.
There, they completed several questionnaires about their beliefs about e-bikes, strapped on a heart rate monitor and activity-tracking watch and rode the trail astride either a standard mountain bike or a comparable e-version.
Courtesy the artist / Gemini G.E.L. © 2018 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society My feelings astride that mare—awed and underqualified—are rather exactly those that I have grown used to as a viewer of Nauman's art.
These include being dunked in a pond while astride a bicycle, doing splits, pulling Master Durand around in a rickshaw and being asked to use his own fists to split coconuts that children lob at him.
Witness the eccentric and uncharacteristically vertical canvas "Outdoor Passageway at 15 Rivington Street" (2016), apparently the product of many hours spent in the cramped and typically disheveled Lower East Side ally that sits astride the gallery.
On Saturday nights, this plaza is a raucous cacophony of pounding discoteca beats and campesinos parading into town astride show horses, but there are still tintos among the cervezas on the trays waitresses carry between tables.
And then, in the centre, we have the one song that defies Christmas categorization, one large pink leg sat astride L.G.C.S., another blancmange-colored foot planted firmly in A.C.S.T.A.A.M. That song is "Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby.
But his career would forever be defined by his turn as Wyatt, with his stars-and-stripes helmet astride his motorcycle, "Captain America," in "Easy Rider," a rough-hewn character that often times reflected his personal life.
He should have been astride the national stage in his State of the Union address, a president's best chance each year to use the pageantry of his position and a huge TV audience to make his case.
Across the city, there are billboards advertising the retrospective of Ms. Abramovic's work that opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, showing the artist astride a white stallion (a still from her 220 video work "The Hero").
Many suspect that Winterfell will undergo a dragon attack at some point in Season 8, but will it be an angry Daenerys and Drogon turning against her nephew and rival or the Night King astride the undead Viserion?
I'm standing inside The Glass House, architect Philip Johnson's iconic mid-century estate in suburban Connecticut, watching combat boot-clad women stand astride men crawling on all fours like beasts of burden, and the contrast is kind of funny.
He moved the 39-foot-tall, gold-plated statue of his predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov, that rotated to catch the sun, and erected a gold-plated statue of himself, bravely astride a golden horse on a majestic cliff-top (pictured).
These are people who'll wolf down the greasiest burgers or the finest caviar with a smile on their face, content in the knowledge that in several hours time they'll find themselves astride a porcelain throne, faces puce and perspiring.
Haunted by a line from Samuel Beckett — "They give birth astride of a grave" — I entered a state of deepening depression that went unrecognized because it looked so much like the grief that would be normal under the circumstances.
Some in Washington continue to argue that "benevolent global hegemony" should be the goal of our foreign policy, that the US, by virtue of its extraordinary military power, should stand astride the world and reshape it to its liking.
The painter is perhaps best known for "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page From an American History Textbook" (1975), depicting the pioneering black scientist and inventor in the famous boat-astride pose ascribed to the first American president.
" The 19th century saw the political rise of wealthy Prussian nobility, called Junkers, who were driven by "hatred for other races" and "allegiance to a military clique," with a goal to place their "culture and race astride the world.
Georgia, the small European country nestled along the shores of the Black Sea and astride Europe's highest mountains, is one of the few unequivocal success stories in a region where America's security and commercial interests are strong and growing.
I savored the ability to go in hard, astride a bull-like charger; or to slowly slip through cover to close distances between hunter and hunted—and the full game, I hope, will always provide options in any situation.
On last year's utterly absurd 100% Radio Hits(THUMP's number two mix of 2016), the former TTC member proclaimed himself to be "the king of the blend," and we're more than happy to watch him astride the throne all day long.
At the Musée d'Art Moderne, a wall is plastered with posters Mr. Bourouissa made for the competition, in which a young black boy appears before a pile of urban detritus, sitting astride a brown horse festooned with red and silver ribbons.
The city is wrestling with that one, aware that it's managed to get rid of only one statue in modern history — Civic Virtue, a fountain depicting a large naked man standing (virtue) astride vanquished female figures representing vice and corruption.
The archetype of the New Woman that took hold at the precipice of the twentieth century is another clear influence: as ladies stand astride bikes, hold each other in intimate embraces, or playfully pop out of pre-cut newspaper pages.
Standing astride that chasm is Mr. Saakashvili, one of the post-Soviet era's most contentious and best-known politicians in the region, a graduate of Columbia Law School who came to power in his native Georgia after the bloodless Rose Revolution in 2003.
THANK YOU TRUMP Earlier in the day, hundreds of protesters waved American flags, with some donning Donald Trump logo hats and t-shirts, as they unfurled a banner depicting the U.S. president standing astride a tank with a U.S. flag behind him.
Rich in oil, and sitting astride lucrative trade and smuggling routes to Iraq, Eastern Syria is a crucial piece of the greater Syrian chessboard, and both sides are looking to manipulate the region's complex tribal political networks in a bid for regional supremacy.
There, on July 2000th, about 21996 members of the Ku Klux Klan marched in opposition to Charlottesville's plan to take down a verdigris statue of Robert E. Lee astride his war horse that has stood in a city park for more than 90 years.
Both brothers deny the allegations as part of a Western conspiracy to interfere in the island nation of 22 million that sits astride vital shipping lanes and has long been a tinder-box of tensions between the dominant Sinhalese Buddhists and minority ethnic Tamils.
HERSHEY, Pa. — Less than 21 hours after a game in Syracuse, and less than 393 hours after the team bus rolled back into town, Scott Gomez perched astride the boards at Giant Center, awaiting the first shift of the seventh American Hockey League game of his life.
This is why a painting of Trump astride a tacky golden tank can appeal to a Trump-obsessed alleged bomber, even while it's sort of making fun of the president: Trump's brand is amoral power, and pointing out that he's playing the villain just makes it stronger.
To reach the bleak steel entry wall — at the southernmost corner of the continental United States — musicians lugged instruments a mile and a half from a parking lot, astride tire ruts of United States Border Patrol vehicles in the sands of Imperial Beach along the Pacific Ocean.
Mark, another Harley worker sitting astride his motorbike during the afternoon shift change at this plant that employs about 1,000 workers, said: "I think Harley is just using it as an excuse" to move more production overseas, after a recent decision to close the company's Kansas City plant.
A small tower of rusted iron, with an inscription and a cross, astride a small section of railroad, the memorial honors the Sybiracy — the many Poles who were deemed a threat and deported to Siberia by the Russians after the 217 invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union.
Here is the text of Emma Lazarus' poem: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles.
In a riot of flashing neon signs and costumed avengers, populating a patch of Times Square on Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets, he can be seen looking regal and triumphant astride a rearing steed worthy of Napoleon, flanked between the modern colonial outposts of American Eagle Outfitters and Express.
Netflix staged an ambitious Stranger Things presence at Comic-Con, including a big video tunnel on the convention floor — the first booth for the streaming giant in San Diego — and an activation across the street astride the Hilton Gaslamp, where it was also promoting original film Bright and the upcoming series The Defenders.
Pompeo was a man in a hurry, standing uniquely astride the three critical strands of the modern GOP: the Kansas Koch brothers who have funded much of the party's next generation; evangelical Christians, a group that has remained fiercely loyal to Trump; and Trump's red-hat-wearing, red-meat-loving MAGA "America First" nationalist base.
What I am referring to here is the setup for Charli's performance on Thursday night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, which saw Charli sporting the outfit I wear in all my best dreams astride a passed-out AG Cook of PC Music fame (who she has been working with on her as-yet untitled next album).
You actually had to have a plan to fail because we stood astride, the world was so much industrial prowess post World War II and so you needed a plan to fail, there was just so much opportunity for blue-collar and white-collar work that would give you high wages for middle skills.
"Jumping out of a parked car in a gravel lot hardly had the same grandeur as tearing across a field astride stallions, a fiery torch in one hand and a pistol in the other," complains Dale Simpkins, an avid racist who participates in one such humiliating fiasco in Thomas Mullen's LIGHTNING MEN (37Ink / Atria, $26).
As Mr. Dorsey and his co-workers tell anyone who asks, it will be trucked to its permanent home outside the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond There, it will sit not far from the city's Monument Avenue, where the Confederate icons Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart all sit astride horses.
In the first half of the book, Dr. Kalanithi provides a good set of anecdotes about how he goes from medical resident to seasoned doctor: first cadaver (formaldehyde stimulated his appetite), first births and deaths on the same day (which made him mindful of "Waiting for Godot," with its line about "birth astride of a grave").
All of which would have been enough for devoted Diaz fans, say, six months or a year ago, when all it took was a few words from the man's mouth to stir the pot and juice our imaginations and convince us the fighter we loved most would soon be returning to reclaim his rightful place astride the world.
Think of Gulliver, in Lilliput, extinguishing a fire in the royal palace with a jet of urine, or of the "frolicsome girl of sixteen," in Brobdingnag, who would "sometimes set me astride upon one of her nipples, with many other tricks"—Gulliver now being the size of Paul, and ripe for use as a sex toy.
Just as she is about to dip her Rich Tea biscuit into the warm golden-brown liquid, she looks at the television screen and sees Lawler's lip hanging off, MacDonald's nose broken into his face, Luke Rockhold astride Chris Weidman as he lands unanswered blows or Holly Holm's arms becoming lifeless as she's choked unconscious by Meisha Tate.
And although Ankara recently patched up relations with Moscow, the very fact its forces lack the steadying influence of a full deck of commanders will worry military planners at NATO HQ. Turkey sits astride potentially NATO's biggest fault line with Russia, the Bosphorus, a narrow channel of water and the gate way for Russia's Black Sea fleet to the Mediterranean and the world's oceans beyond.
" Then, using Google Maps, they pinpointed the exact Philly street corner where all this action was taking place — a task made easier by the fact that in 2014 Google actually captured a Street View image of Vent Guy astride his favorite subway grate: In the "freaking the hell out" corner of Reddit, redditor JeebusHasComeToTown probably speaks for everyone: "This is completely blowing my mind!
It is there that Mr. Lauren, 77, most often takes to the road, sometimes astride one of his vintage motorcycles, but more often behind the wheel of a classic automobile from a collection that includes a 1958 Ferrari Testarossa; a 1938 Alfa Romeo Mille Miglia; a 1929 Bentley Blower; and a 1930 Mercedes-Benz SSK "Count Trossi" roadster, only one of which was ever manufactured.
I'm not alone among my friends and acquaintances in often using General Lee — massively wrought in bronze astride his steed Traveler — as a turning point on walks, and I can hardly be the first to note how dominant this figure is, and how it casts a far longer shadow — literally as well as figuratively — than any other statue I can recall on the battlefield.
At the same time, Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward were delivering bigness to the rural masses through the original home shopping network: consolidated mail-order catalogs, some over 700 pages, that offered everything from button-hooks and brassieres to motor buggies, delivered directly to their customer's doorstep via the U.S.P.S. An early Sears catalog cover, boasting "Our trade reaches around the world," featured a fair-skinned maiden, addressed envelope in hand, floating over a bucolic American farmstead astride a cornucopia spilling furniture, guns, pianos and clothing.
The choices are legion: Judi Dench gliding in as Old Deuteronomy, a Yoda-esque fluff ball with a huge ruff who brings to mind the Cowardly Lion en route to a drag ball as Queen Elizabeth I; the tap dancing Skimbleshanks (Steven McRae), dressed, unlike most of the furries — in red pants and suspenders, no less — leading a Pied Piper parade; or Taylor Swift, as Bombalurina, executing a joyless burlesque shimmy after descending on the scene astride a crescent moon that ejaculates iridescent catnip.
In retirement, Bryant settled comfortably into a role he'd spent years preparing for: Pope Emeritus of Basketball, popping up from time to time—always amid conspicuous mention that his busy schedule of Dynamic Business Visionary activities left little time for engaging as deeply with the sport as when he stood astride it—to homilize the virtues of basketball excellence and beatify this or that younger star as possessing the blessed traits of greatness, always via a rhetorical framework grooved to the orthodox sensibilities of the game's scolds.

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