It bespeaks a dedication that surely reflects something about the author.
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That's an all-time low and bespeaks a very healthy labor market.
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Nor is he a person whose life and career bespeaks a deep aversion to crony capitalism.
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Forgive me, but this waiting stance one often hears bespeaks a poverty of imagination and engagement.
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Some will regard them with compassion, others with contempt, but neither bespeaks a reciprocity of respect.
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She acquires a pure physical strength here that bespeaks a hard, long lifetime of patience and stoicism.
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It bespeaks a patient realization of the sweeping peripheral space that is the hallmark of his work.
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In any case, that the artist recorded the exchange bespeaks her concern with history as form's ubiquitous backstory.
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But Mueller's ability to see through Manafort's lies and rip up the cooperation agreement bespeaks a deeper strength.
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"Use This Gospel" begins with a persistent, needling drone that bespeaks anxiety, disorientation and a pressing need for healing.
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The lacuna bespeaks incuriosity about the wife of the great man, which Merz was at no pains to correct.
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Nevertheless, for a democratic country to resort to using live ammunition to deter protesters bespeaks a failed and inhumane policy.
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Everything in the picture, from a bravura swirl of bedclothes to fast notations of arabesque-patterned wallpaper, bespeaks exultant self-satisfaction.
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Indeed, the anger that they and Robinson bring to their roles bespeaks a larger issue: the war going on in Europe.
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This ambitious film — divided into two parts, together over four hours long — bespeaks an artist who is not pursuing a mainstream breakthrough.
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Cary shows the ugly, exhausting side of caregiving, but she also shows how the hardship bespeaks something more powerful: unconditional familial love.
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Capacious and curvaceous by samba standards, her voice did roughen with age, and that half-sung rap bespeaks a willingness to try anything.
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The destruction of the Buddhas bespeaks the way the effects of imperialism reproduce themselves in an indigenous population, in even more nefarious ways.
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"This action by the prosecutor bespeaks the desperation that has engulfed their case," attorneys Donna Rotunno and Arthur Aidala said in a statement.
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His furious, prodigious pace of edicts also bespeaks a man who feels like he's on a clock and his time is running out.
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Yazoo City, on the edge of the Mississippi Delta, is graced by magnolias, wisteria and a pastel-painted high street that bespeaks genteel decline.
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The paint application masquerades as random, but bespeaks intense deliberation, the emotionality of which is veiled by the single colors, but also quickly felt.
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SETH COLTER WALLS Among the most remarkable solo piano statements of this millennium, "Avenging Angel" bespeaks the passions of an irrepressibly studious and quietly soulful pianist.
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Even though most analysts continue to look at 2016 as a frame for 2020, that reflex bespeaks another failure to size up a dramatically shifting electorate.
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At the same time, however, Biden's nostalgia for his pragmatic former alliances with segregationist lawmakers bespeaks a foreshortened moral compass, one prone to equate bigotry with collegial rascalry.
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Westworld's writers are undoubtedly familiar with these pitfalls — after all, they cheekily offered to provide a season's worth of spoilers to Reddit, which bespeaks confidence about where they're going.
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The American President falsely believes that the US is stronger on its own than together with its traditional allies, even in a globalized world that obviously bespeaks the opposite.
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A fusion of painting and sculpture, it thrusts itself into real space in a gesture that, in the year of Martin Luther King's assassination, bespeaks both grief and power.
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Berlinski may have invented most of what we encounter here, but the book's easy way with local stories and lore bespeaks the familiarity that comes with rich firsthand experience.
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The fact that these trends are already discernible, even if pressure is clearly rising on North Korea, bespeaks the failure — not the success — and certainly not the coherence of U.S. policy.
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There is something calamitous in the air that surrounds the campaign, a hostile fatalism that bespeaks a man convinced that the end is near and aiming his anger at all within reach.
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Her ardor for rendering the defining qualities of a thing and its surface — whether it is a puckered fruit or a red plastic cup — bespeaks of a deep belief in art's uplifting power.
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It's sad because I looked up to him at one point, and this bespeaks a sort of cravenness to a particularly hyperbolic client and an unnecessary suspension of honor and truth that's beneath him.
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Like these predecessors, the current wave of activism bespeaks many Americans' sense that electoral politics — and the political process and policies that result from it — are ineffective and, in some instances, rotten to the core.
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That Sloane was himself so happy to profit from the enslavement of human beings, harvesting his income from abroad while tending to his garden of marvels in London, bespeaks the politics that soak his collection.
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That they consistently decline to consider the most basic economic principles bespeaks either a profound ignorance of those principles or (perhaps more accurately, if more cynically) an acute awareness of what might be gained from their violation.
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The excruciatingly hard work that's evident (try to imagine any detail scaled, placed, or colored differently) bespeaks a conviction so compelling that your heart pledges allegiance to it without your mind having any clear idea of what that involves.
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Seen in its best light, the controversy about free speech in American universities bespeaks fear that the next generation of Americans will not have been educated to engage in public debate, which necessarily entails encounter with alien and frequently outrageous perspectives.
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And it bespeaks a curious lack of ambition, as if the ultimate goal of any self-respecting tech startup is to become a division within LVMH or Total or Peugeot, rather than an Uber or Google or Tesla in their own right.
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Lyrics are immaterial; the shiver in his voice on "Amar Ontorai" bespeaks woundedness and resignation, and each time the jittery beats give way to the constantly returning circular hook, sweat breaks out on his forehead; he has to keep up the pace.
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Masaoka's style on the koto, a long, stringed instrument from Japan, bespeaks deep equanimity: She is comfortable allowing vast amounts of open space — playing quietly, just a few notes at a time — but within that serene composure she strategically builds a feeling of tensile anticipation.
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Superficially the senator from Texas is a classic overachiever, whose ability to surmount Himalayan obstacles—such as winning that office in his first-ever political race—bespeaks and fuels an adamantine self-confidence; the sort whose warp-speed ascent is powered by strenuous calculation and fearsome intelligence.
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The time the movie devotes to their shock — watching the profoundly impressed stank faces and the dabbed-at tears, bearing witness as Franklin's outrageous excellence, on Night Two, causes breakdowns and crackups — bespeaks an interest in more than Franklin but in the emotional consequences of her incandescence.
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While the level of activity obstructed the cutouts at times, which emerge from manicured bushes, the area — lined with restaurants, shops, and a large marketplace — contributes to Tran's commentary; it bespeaks the irony of "resolving" a landfill problem, as the case with "Garbage Hill," with businesses that beget more waste.
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But it's also true that the fact that society remains obsessed with whether or not nonwhite women's curves are "natural" or not bespeaks a deeply rooted societal racism and misogyny that insists on being allowed to investigate all women's bodies, but particularly ones that don't fit into a narrow-hipped white standard.
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Conservatives, meanwhile, accuse tech of a lack of "viewpoint diversity" — which bespeaks a bizarre miscomprehension that their belief systems are rejected purely because they're different, when in fact they are rejected because climate-change denialism, and denying the systemic oppression of people who weren't born white men, are as demonstrably & morally incorrect as e.g.
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In between the political jokes, Franco as host had little to do, and skits that should have been crowd pleasers — like Franco's attempt to wrap holiday gifts devolving into a blood-spurting horror movie scene, and Che's stint undercover as "white Gretchen" — mostly missed the mark in that indefinable way that bespeaks a live show exhausted by a very long year.
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Although I hesitate as a music fan to complain about overproduction — on principle, one wants more rather than less music in the world, no matter what it is — the Dylan industry's apparent need to expel his table scraps bespeaks a dubious flavor of auteur worship — the kind of adulation that has always attached itself to Dylan and won't stop until every second of the man's life has been examined and documented.
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The epitaph bespeaks a jovial ecclesiastic who spent considerably more than his revenues on the pleasures of the table.
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Both the "bespeaks caution" doctrine and the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act offer protection for forward-looking statements if they are accompanied by cautionary language identifying specific factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statement and may be sufficient to absolve a defendant of liability.Definition of bespeaks caution doctrine USLegal.com However, in Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System v. MF Global Ltd.
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They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud. And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein.
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Although many other influences were strong, Korean Buddhist art, "bespeaks a sobriety, taste for the right tone, a sense of abstraction but also of colours that curiously enough are in line with contemporary taste" (Pierre Cambon, Arts asiatiques – Guimet').
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Dumervahal-Gupti is another ancient town on the Southern basin of Tel river situated about 10 km from ancient metropolis Asurgarh, Narla. Tradition bespeaks the settlement as one of the territorial entity of Asurgarh, Narla during the reign of king Vyaghraraja.
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Vatel, who had examined some of his manuscripts in the National Archives, Paris, testifies to his thorough mastery of French, and his pamphlet, the copy of which in the French National Library contains autograph corrections, bespeaks a familiarity with the classics.
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Even at the time of its release, Variety noted that the "story bespeaks authority in detail, obviously explained by the fact that Capt. Frank Wead, who authored the original, has had (a) practical aviation background.""Film reviews." Variety, April 20, 1938, p. 15.
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The latticework in the star itself bespeaks the former coat of arms of Georgia from 1918–1921 and adopted again from 1991–2004; the crescent moon represents the Muslim Azeris, on a background depicting the national symbol of the Armenians, Mount Ararat.
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Amado was himself elected to the Academy in 1961. The relationship between politics and art is at the center of the novel. Amado subtitled it A Fable to Kindle a Hope. It is more obviously didactic than his popular novels but “bespeaks a passionate humanism”.
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The president of the Geological Society claimed that it "bespeaks of the lamentable coldness of the heart of the writer". Owen was subsequently denied the presidency of the society for his repeated and pointed antagonism towards Gideon Mantell. Even more extraordinary was the way Owen ignored the genuine scientific content of Mantell's work.
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Of the theater's repertoire, contemporary critic and founder of Theatre Arts Magazine, Sheldon Cheney, wrote, "The list bespeaks nothing if not breadth of view and courage. And these are qualities which the commercial producer so sadly lacks."Cheney, Sheldon. The New Movement in the Theatre. New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1914; p. 180.
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" - The New York Times "Joseph's metaphoric inventiveness is magnificently displayed throughout, and the kaleidoscope of figures and images bespeaks a purely theatrical imagination." - Los Angeles Times "Tragic yet darkly comic and highly. imaginative . . . Joseph has created a theatrical landscape that is totally different from the harrowing war reports to which the nightly news has accustomed us.
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The contrast between the innocence of > their youth and the weapons of war underscores the poignancy of their > sacrifice. There is about them the physical contact and sense of unity that > bespeaks the bonds of love and sacrifice that is the nature of men at war. > And yet they are each alone. Their strength and their vulnerability are both > evident.
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Baijnath Temple with Dhauladhar mountains in the backdrop Built during the 12th century, Bajinath is known to be one of the oldest temples of Lord Shiva. The temple bespeaks ancient art and culture through its pristine and spellbinding craftsmanship. The temple premises are extremely spotless and the view from the rear end of the temple is magical. The temple lies between Kangra and Mandi districts of Himachal Pradesh.
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The Romanian Raven Shepherd Dog is a natural breed originating in the Meridional Carpathian and Subcarpathian areal (old Muntenia region of Wallachia, within the Dambovita, Arges and Prahova counties, and around Brasov). In these places, these dogs are highly appreciated and used as watch dogs for properties and cattle herds. They are known as Corbi. The word "corb" means "raven" and the name bespeaks the dog's fur colour, which is a clear black.
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He was a qualified aerial gunner having received his wings upon completion of flexible gunnery school at Tyndall field. He made good use of his wartime experiences in the movie Command Decision (1948), playing a World War II brigadier general who supervised bombing raids over Germany. Variety said, "His is a believable delivery, interpreting the brigadier-general who must send his men out to almost certain death with an understanding that bespeaks his sympathy with the soldier... ".
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The entire work bespeaks the influence of French fin de siecle art, which is also a characteristic of Oliva's portraits." According to the catalog of Czech art auction house Meissner-Neumann: : "Czech painter and illustrator, he studied under F. Sequens at the Academy of Art in Prague, then in Munich and Paris. He was influenced by the work of his friend L. Marold. He created chiefly portraits and large-scale paintings following the historicizing stream in art.
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Alexander Keith (1832) took the opening of the Third Seal directly to the Byzantine Papacy in year 606, following Pope Boniface III as an "Easterner on the papal throne" in 607. ;Futurist view Inflation and famine will plague the earth during World War III. Though many will starve, the wealthy will enjoy the luxuries of oil and wine. ;Idealist view This rider bespeaks the economic hardship and poverty that follow the unleashing of wars on humankind, while the rich get richer.
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L.J. Bourstein of Motography wrote: "Miss Frederick again is given opportunity to display her unusual dramatic capabilities and accomplishes another remarkable success [...] Excellent photography has considerable to do with this picture. Many of the numerous camera effects have been executed with precision and bespeaks of the capability of Ned Van Buren, the photographer. Robert Vignola directed and has turned out a very satisfactory and entertaining drama". Like many American films of the time, Madame Jealousy was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards.
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He remains pragmatic: A friendship should be formed, not with an inferior, but with a superior, for to make friends of inferiors bespeaks envy, which is reprehensible. To shed a friend is a threat to honor—unlike a divorce. To women and their allure he makes certain disparaging references, but they are only incidental to his main interest,promoting companionship and amity in the circles that concern him. One can detect in the Ādāb as a whole certain ideas known to Sasanian Persia from pre-Islamic translations of Greek works .
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In Homer's heavily maritime Odyssey, Poseidon rather than Zeus is the primary mover of events. Although the sea-nymph Thetis appears only at the beginning and end of the Iliad, being absent for much of the middle, she is a surprisingly powerful and nearly omniscient figure when she is present. She is easily able to sway the will of Zeus, and to turn all the forges of Hephaestus to her purposes. Her prophecy of Achilles' fate bespeaks a degree of foreknowledge not available to most other gods in the epic.
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The church contains three naves and is oriented according to the canon from west to east, its southern and southwestern parts being fully devastated. The presence of a baptisterium bespeaks of the temple being used not only for monastic praying but also for public liturgies. In the north-western of the monastery, there is a second floor, containing the second largest premise of the monastery, which was presumably used for a refectory. Other premises were located in the western part of the monastery : the monks cells, kitchen, cellar, store-rooms.
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Only one other building in the parish was designed by the firm. It "has a distinctive Arts and Crafts design which sets it apart from virtually all other period residences in the parish and which bespeaks its high style origin." As of 1985, the only modification to the house was enclosure of a screened loggia, which was felt did not detract from the historic character of the site. with three photos and two maps The house, along with a contemporaneous cistern which is deemed to be a contributing structure, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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Dargah of Shahbaz Khan Its high fortified walls and occasional bastions were encroached upon, destruction, defacement of different structures and changes in internal spaces, had put the fort in a sorry state. The two-storied diwan block was partly damaged; bathhouse, niches were filled in, and decorative panels were mostly plastered over. The DOA accomplished a good job in restoring the structure and converting it into a museum in the first place, but the pinkish finish on the exterior, rather than the original lustrous white, fueled debates and controversies. The elegance of its interior bespeaks the patron's wealth.
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He felt alienated by everyone around him, especially by his peers, and his last published work, The Message of Kafka, bespeaks melancholy, desperation, and the sense of doom experienced by those subjected to discrimination and repression. Hedayat's corpse in Paris, following his 9 April 1951 suicide Hedayat traveled and stayed in India from 1936 until late 1937 (the mansion he stayed in during his visit to Bombay was identified in 2014). Hedayet spent time in Bombay learning the Pahlavi (Middle Persian) language from the Parsi Zoroastrian community of India. He was taught by Bahramgore Tahmuras Anklesaria (also spelled as Behramgore Tehmurasp Anklesaria), a renowned scholar and philologist.
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Cette belle chapelle de Versailles, si mal proportionnée, qui semble un enfeu par le haut et vouloir écraser le château (Saint-Simon p. 244) Nevertheless, the magnificent interior has been widely admired to the present day and served as inspiration for Luigi Vanvitelli when he designed the chapel for the Palace of Caserta (Defilippis, 1968). Dedicated to Saint Louis, patron saint of the Bourbons, the chapel was consecrated in 1710. The palatine model is of course traditional; however, the Corinthian colonnade of the tribune level is of a classic style that anticipates the neo- classicism that evolved during the 18th century, although its use here bespeaks a remarkable virtuosity.
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This may be ascribed to the traditional belief that Tweants is supposedly an improper speech variety, the use of which bespeaks little intelligence or sophistication. However, as the status of Tweants is gradually improving, school boards may now opt for a lesson series Tweants Kwarteerken (loosely translated as 15 minutes of Tweants) designed for implication in nursery and primary schools. The fairly recently instated Twente Hoes is working on further teaching materials, which school boards may adopt free of charge. Up until recently, Tweants was, and still is, also believed to impede proper acquisition of Standard Dutch, which dominates all parts of Dutch public life.
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Perera's complex technique includes precisely bending the strings to create sharps and flats while gliding across the harp in a seemingly effortless fashion, which bespeaks the tremendous amount of skill and discipline required. About the time Perera started playing the harp, the Beatles were in their heyday. The young musician absorbed their music as well as other pop music influences into his musical muse, which included Brazilian music, folk and tango from South America, and the folk music from Paraguay. Unable to find an instructor who could teach him how to perform a pop music repertoire on the harp, he experimented until he was able to overcome the instrument's technical hurdles and develop his own form of expression.
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The Rectory illustrates attempts by church authorities to modify assets to reflect the growth and development of the parish within the context of the wider Colonial church, and also the close relationship between Anglo-Catholic clergy and the church buildings that reflect their theology. The Glebe Cemetery served the Anglican community between 1829 and 1892, although earlier, unmarked, graves and unrecorded burials of other denominations are probably present. Its headstones form a record of the early families, pioneers, settlers and prominent citizens of the district, reputedly including the unmarked burial of Colonial Architect Francis Greenway. The contentious history of the adjacent quarry bespeaks the competition among individuals and groups in colonial East Maitland for resources such as building materials.
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These included the mores of the upper crust social class to which Lily belonged by birth, education, and breeding. The final title Wharton chose for the novel was The House of Mirth (1905), taken from the Old Testament: The House of Mirth spotlights social context as equally important to the development of the story's purpose, as the heroine. "Mirth" contrasted with "mourning" also bespeaks a moral purpose as it underscores the frivolity of a social set that not only worships money, but also uses it ostentatiously solely for its own amusement and aggrandizement. At the time the novel takes place, Old New York high society was peopled by the extraordinarily wealthy who were conditioned by the economic and social changes the Gilded Age (1870–1900) wrought.
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Blake West Virginia Judiciary website While it may not be a violation of due process to enforce a desuetudinal law, the fact that a law has long gone unenforced may present a bar to standing in a suit to prevent its future enforcement. In Poe v. Ullman, the Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to Connecticut's ban on birth control, writing: > The undeviating policy of nullification by Connecticut of its anti- > contraceptive laws throughout all the long years that they have been on the > statute books bespeaks more than prosecutorial paralysis ... "Deeply > embedded traditional ways of carrying out state policy ..." - or not > carrying it out - "are often tougher and truer law than the dead words of > the written text."Poe v.
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The School Library Journal finds this book, for high school readers and adults, to be a crackerjack addition to this series: :... Suspense builds as all treasure hunters approach dangerous ground, where they meet for a thrilling climax. Drawing on a real-life airline disaster, Hopi legends, and current forensic science, this is a crackerjack addition to the Chee/Leaphorn mysteries. Fine leisure reading from a master of the form.-Starr E. Smith, Fairfax County Public Library, VA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. Bookmarks Magazine finds this novel disappointing compared to others in the series, and not enough suspense: :Hillerman, whose crime fiction bespeaks of Native Americans’ rich history, once again mines the Southwest for a story that intricately links tribal mysticism, desert landscapes, and contemporary culture.
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Anelli's records of other sitters suggest that he drew his patronage from New York State citizens of upper classes. In Portrait of a Child as Cupid, Anelli presents Van Rensselaer, Jr. in a spectacularly theatrical manner, revealed triumphantly by the parting of the heavy red draperies. The Empire period ormolu daybed—with its gold embroidery and tassels—bespeaks high-style furniture such as that produced concurrently by Charles-Honoré Lannuier, Joseph Meeks (1771–1868), and Antoine-Gabriel Quervelle (1789–1856). With the bow and quiver of arrows by the side of the bed, the artist identifies the child with Cupid as a symbol of love, a conceit similar to that chosen later by William Henry Rinehart (1825–1874) in his statue of Henry Elliot Johnston, Jr., Cupid with a Bow, 1874 (National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.).
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Writers suggest that Aubry's greatest legacy is the influence that the Art Barn has had on Houston's Tin House movement and the role his buildings (e.g., the Glassell School of Art) have played in the history of Houston’s arts community. In 2014, however, both buildings were demolished by officials citing expanding needs or high renovation costs; both events generated public outcry from the local architecture, arts, and historical preservationist communities. Regarding the Glassell building's replacement, Stephen Fox observed, “For the museum to sacrifice its own architectural heritage bespeaks an institutional tendency, prevalent in Houston, to discount existing architecture and sweep it away.” Aubry himself sought to preserve the area's architectural legacy with his work on the book, Born on the Island: The Galveston We Remember, commissioned by the Galveston Historical FoundationBorn on the Island: The Galveston We Remember, Texas A&M; University Press, Books.
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Asian American writers must often confront racial bias that seeks to diminish their work. Dorothy Wang argues that there is a bias against Asian-American writers because of their race. Wang states that the: "marginalization of Asian American poetry is, arguably, a synecdochic reflection of the larger state of poetry in a capitalist society – poets tend not to write best sellers and poetry has no use-value – yet the erasure of poetry within literary purviews bespeaks a more profound and troubling fundamental misapprehension within American literary (and racial) ideologies: the (mis)reading, even if mostly unconscious, of the category of 'Asian American poetry' as oxymoronic, a contradiction in terms, one that pits the sociopolitical (read: racial) against the aesthetic (the formal, the "purely" literary) in a false binary." The lack of attention to race in poetry can cause Asian American's contribution to the poetic world to become almost nonexistent.
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There seems to be some confusion over whether personal name was derived from the place-name or vice versa. Another place name potentially associated with Cissa (pronounced 'Chissa') is the Iron Age hill fort Cissbury Ring, near Cissbury, which William Camden said "plainly bespeaks it the work of king Cissa".Camden. Britannia. p.312 - But Cisburie the name of the place doth plainely shew and testifie that it was the worke of Cissa: who beeing of the Saxons line the second king of this pety kingdom, after his father Ælle, accompanied with his brother Cimen and no small power of the Saxons, at this shore arrived and landed at Cimenshore, a place so called of the said Cimen, which now hath lost the name; but that it was neere unto Wittering.. The association of Cissbury with Cissa is a 16th-century antiquarian invention. Records show that Cissbury was known as Sissabury in 1610, Cesars Bury in 1663, Cissibury in 1732 and Sizebury in 1744.
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He resists identifying solely with one character and prefers instead to maintain a distance, taking them all in with his viewfinder as independent but irrevocably tangled components of a larger cast, which includes the sets, scenery and landscape as well as what goes on outside of the frame. Shots of the landscape largely consist of the dusty road winding into the distance and the interior shots are just as bleak; the dowdy kitchen exudes a nearly tangible film of dust and grime and the dingy hotel room that speaks, with each detail, of the rebellious freedom cherished by those who share it. The shift of focus from the novel is clear even in Visconti's decision to change the title. Whereas the novel's title alludes to the final retribution exacted upon the adulterous couple, Visconti's header bespeaks the focus of his film, obsessive passion. Despite arguments about how to define neorealist cinema, certainly one of Ossessione’s most poignant aspects is its stark realism.
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Elliott Abrams, writing about the November 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense, says that Amnesty treats "Hamas and other terrorist groups [...] with an 'evenhandedness' that bespeaks deep biases", citing NGO Monitor's detailed research. The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticised the May 2012 report on administrative detention saying it was "one sided", and "not particularly serious", and "that it seemed little more than a public relations gimmick". Gerald Steinberg, of NGO Monitor, said that the report was tied to the recent Palestinian hunger strikes and that Amnesty "jumped on the bandwagon to help their Palestinian allies". Steinberg also said that one of the researchers, Deborah Hyams, was not a neutral party, saying that "Hyams has volunteered as a 'human shield' in Beit Jala (near Bethlehem) to deter Israeli military responses to gunfire and mortars targeting Jewish civilians in Jerusalem," and that in 2008 she signed a letter claiming Israel is "a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land".
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