Zweig's friend the writer Joseph Roth descends from scrappier stock.
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The piece descends from Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's "Ovale" range.
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The barbed work that's so common today descends from Mr. Haacke's.
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As it descends from the sky, the ball looks like a giant leather pumpkin.
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A refulgent angel descends from the heavens while shepherds tend their flocks by night.
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But Caroline Randall Williams also descends from white men who raped her black ancestors.
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The Coptic language descends from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, according to the World Council of Churches.
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The tribe descends from the original Creek Nation that once resided in Alabama and Georgia.
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The result is a curved row of textiles that descends from the ceiling in soft columns.
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Moments later, a naked, blue-skinned figure wearing a painted fencing mask descends from the rafters.
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The opera's magic gold simply descends from on high: a black box containing a glowing rock.
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An external bougainvillea-draped staircase descends from the terrace to a patio near the kitchen entrance.
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Outdoor space: A spiral staircase descends from the main level to the large paved rear patio.
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The conservative opposition, which descends from moderate former franquistas who embraced democracy, would rather discuss the future.
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There, people tend to regard love as a sort of divine madness that descends from the heavens.
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Instead of Mike, Josh befriends semi-deflated volleyballs, and eventually, Trackanon descends from space to colonize the planet.
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One of the dogs, the long-haired one, is demanding my attention when a voice descends from upstairs.
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She then drops money from her branch; moments later, she descends from the tree and their eyes lock.
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The movie deliberately descends from this brutal height to something friendlier, more encouraging and, alas, substantially more quaint.
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Phinney, who turned 27 this week, is a star in his sport who descends from American cycling royalty.
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He descends from the lineage of the Know-Nothings, the doomsayers and the fabulists, the nativists and the hucksters.
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After salivating over the sight of the actress, Mr. Trump descends from the bus and acts like a gentleman.
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Analyzing DNA from hundreds of villages, they discovered that just about every living Indian descends from two distinct groups.
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"It's unbelievable," said Mr. James, who descends from a long line of military men dating to the Revolutionary War.
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It would also include my children, since my wife descends from a Jewish family from Minsk in the 1800s.
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Critic's Notebook The song is indistinct at first, as the barefoot man descends from the ceiling in hazy darkness.
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What happens in the startup world does not rise from the ground up but descends from the VCs on down.
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Annie eventually descends from the air, sleeping still, and when she wakes she has no knowledge of what has happened.
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She descends from her pedestal, and we see husband and wife together for the first time since the opening scene.
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As the air descends from the higher elevations toward the coast, it warms and dries, leading to extremely low humidity.
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"It's unbelievable," said Mr. James, who descends from a long line of military men dating back to the Revolutionary War.
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While ice descends from the north, fire is moving rapidly across the Narrow Sea, with the Iron Throne in its sights.
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All this work descends from the slavery-era practice of African-Americans pooling their money to buy freedom for loved ones.
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After the workout, their heart rates return to baseline as easily as an elevator descends from one floor to the next.
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The colour scheme descends from red and yellow for wealthy residents to blue for "chronic want" and black for "vicious, semi-criminal".
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Even though he descends from a line of chiefs, he says, he, too, was robbed of the knowledge passed on by his ancestors.
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Her ego suffers as she descends from being among the best of American tree pruners to the status of a beginner in Japan.
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"You're trying to develop trust," explained Judge Vlavianos, who routinely descends from the bench to dispense handshakes, hugs and the occasional skeptical raised eyebrow.
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That leaves a coalition with the Greens and the socialist Die Linke (the Left), which descends from the Communist party that ran East Germany.
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Maxwell, "1990x" Every few years, Maxwell descends from the palace in the clouds he calls home and delivers another collection of sumptuous R&B.
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They produce fruit only once in their lifetime, when a pod-like, magenta-colored flower descends from the tree and bananas sprout around it.
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The lineage of free jazz and "great black music" that descends from Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, and Anthony Braxton should have a prominent place.
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That burst of inspiration, however, translates into self-indulgence, as this gothic thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence descends from intrigue into irritation and eventually ennui.
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Outdoor space: A stairway descends from the screened porch to the fenced backyard, which has a terrace and stone paths that cut through greenery.
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You can even hire someone to rig up a bed that descends from your living room ceiling when you're ready to call it a night.
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That would make the company the world's biggest so-called "fallen angel" - the ignominious distinction for a borrower that descends from investment grade to junk.
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One popular theory is that it descends from quer, an old German word meaning oblique — neither parallel nor at a right angle, but in between.
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Minutes later, returning to his argument about how American permissiveness toward the abuse of women descends from centuries-old English permissiveness, he said this: pic.twitter.
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Second, the man who descends from the caboose every few minutes to serve his customers may very well be the happiest chef in Northern California.
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Moon — not to be confused with Duncan Jones' feature film — features an actor on a soundstage who plays an astronaut that descends from a lunar lander.
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She descends from atop a pyramid of lemon yellow and brass, crown atop hair perpetually windswept by the breeze that naturally conjures itself in her presence.
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The prospect of reversing this human-made threat feels as fuzzy and indistinct as the wooly wall of gray that descends from the sky around me.
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Ms. Warren has an ancestor who descends from the first people who traveled from Asia into the Americas, and from whom Native Americans descended, he said.
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Today, a new staircase descends from the second floor with a generous landing where Mr. Crawford, who now has his own architecture firm, Crawford Practice, works.
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In the middle of "Send in Stewie," for instance, Stewie begins performing the opening song from Hamilton, as snot descends from his nose and he occasionally hiccups.
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Watch Tommy's rollercoaster ride gone wrong below, paying special attention around three and a half minutes in, when the stunt descends from glam metal extravagance to comedy.
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From the second she descends from the sky, holding little Georgie Banks' (Joel Dawson) kite, she owns every second of her screen time as the magical nanny.
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This breakfast-and-dinner hybrid descends from brunch, the breakfast-lunch combo that's given hungover late-risers everywhere the chance to have waffles well past breakfast time.
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Adding another, unexpected and visually dazzling dimension to all these horizontal proceedings is a grand piano — complete with player — which every so often descends from the rafters.
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Memorial Day descends from the Southern tradition of "Decoration Day," where families would travel to the cemeteries where their ancestors were interred to place flowers on their graves.
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The humor associated with black language play—with jokers like Pryor and Bernie Mac—directly descends from this multivocal tradition, and from the trouble that made it necessary.
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A stairway descends from the foyer to the main level, where there is a living-and-dining area that has a wood-burning fireplace with a marble surround.
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The painting may have been in Spain in the 18th century, he said, because the family descends from an officer in Napoleon's army who may have acquired it there.
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Zaloom's scholarship descends from a line of economic anthropologists who are particularly interested in the social bonds that result from exchange, not least ones that occur outside the market.
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As he slowly loses consciousness after the attack, DHH imagines "a beloved Chinese musical," and just like that, dancers appear, and a Chinese jumbo jet descends from the sky.
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While Sita descends from depression into dementia, Alice channels her homesickness into her colorful house, which she names Brixton Beach, and her sculptures, which Tearne imagines with precise ingenuity.
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Slowly, implacably, what looks like a metal hockey puck descends from the ceiling and crushes the object: Slowly, if it's soft, or all at once, if it resists the force.
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If your cat acts like it rules your apartment, and your soul, there's a good reason for that: Your feline descends from a long, enduring line of four-legged overlords.
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TIBU, Colombia (AP) — With Colombian military snipers in position, Howard Buffett descends from a helicopter and trudges through the wet grass in steel-toe boots chewed through by his dog's teeth.
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Roseanne depicts politics as a kind of phantom that descends from outside for white people to politely argue over, something that has little actual impact on the lives of these characters.
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Her method descends from Tolstoy's "War and Peace" (yes, a grand comparison), in which Napoleon's advance on Moscow alternates with the more intimate stories of Russians struggling to live their lives.
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Elizabeth S. Crowley, a two-term City Council member who descends from a powerful Queens political family, remains locked in the city's only contest that is still too close to call.
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The Texas two-step likely descends from the significant Czech and German influence in central Texas, though it's also a clear adaptation of the foxtrot, popularized by Harry Fox in the 1910s.
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The rapper, whose family descends from the ravaged island, has been heavily involved in sending plane shipments of bare necessities—water, food, hygiene products—and generators for hospitals to the U.S. territory.
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On her mother's side, Lambert descends from early California pioneers, and is a third-generation Angeleno on her father's side, with her paternal grandfather born in Los Angeles in the 19th century.
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At Friendship Park, a spit of land between San Diego and Tijuana, people see their families and loves across a rusted mesh fence that descends from the mountains into the Pacific Ocean.
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A "poltroon," I read, is an "utter coward," which I knew; I didn't know that the word probably descends from the Old Italian poltrire , to laze around in bed, from poltro , bed.
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Many major features of the Gulf of Mexico's continental slope — where the sea bottom descends from the continent's outer edge down to the deep ocean floor — were formed when that slope failed.
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If two of the three ratings agencies classify Pemex as "junk" it would become the largest fallen angel - the ignominious distinction for a borrower that descends from investment grade to junk - in history.
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"[The Supreme Court's decision] said that the right of citizenship is not a matter of inheritance, that it never descends from generation to generation, it is related to where you're born," Lee says.
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Here, a pilot descends from the bomb bay of a Navy P2B-1S mothership (these were dubbed the "Fertile Myrtle") into the cockpit of a Douglas D-558-II, or "Skyrocket" plane, below.
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Uniting all four prompts a short mini-game that simply asks you to stop a gauge in the middle, adding bonus damage to a crystalline meteor that descends from space to crush your opponents.
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Dazzled by the Colombian women, the singer descends from the vehicle to introduce himself, in Spanish, to one of the beauties and begins to sing the catchy verse that is already making people dance.
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It's interesting to note that she descends from artists on both sides of her family as well: her maternal grandfather was an artist, and her paternal great-grandfather was an artist and sculptor, too.
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She lies on Herod's throne — a brass cube with the letters "saxa" (Latin for "stones") carved in it — in a fetal position, until a stone cube descends from above and seems to swallow her.
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The 21-year-old star of After, out April 12, descends from a line of movie-makers, movie-stars, and heart-throbs (yes, we see some Uncle Joseph Fiennes circa Shakespeare in Love in you, Hero).
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A downgrade would make Pemex the largest-ever fallen angel - the ignominious distinction for a borrower that descends from investment grade to junk - in history by a factor of two based on dollar value of bonds.
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But it won't be too long before you'll be able to ride a coaster and see the actual world around you, while demons take bites out of the track ahead, and Superman descends from the skies above.
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In Tezcatlipoca, a short animation by Robin George, now hosted by FNX First Nations Experience, the artist matched Pyotr Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" to the Aztec myth of a deity who descends from heaven in the form of an animal.
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One of the most striking yet subtle uses of sound this season was in Episode 8 when the Woodsman descends from the sky into the desert, and when his feet touch the ground there's a soft sound of footsteps.
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In fiction, the gratuitous descends from André Gide's 1914 novel, " Les Caves du Vatican ," in which the callow young Frenchman Lafcadio, on a train between Rome and Naples, spots a man he knows slightly and pushes him off the moving train.
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PEMEX WOULD BE BIGGEST 'FALLEN ANGEL' A downgrade would make Pemex the largest-ever fallen angel - the ignominious distinction for a borrower that descends from investment grade to junk - in history by a factor of two based on dollar value of bonds.
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That leaves The Left, a party that descends from East Germany's communists; the Greens, a centre-left party considered closest to the Social Democrats; and the Free Democrats, a liberal party that has floundered in recent years but now seems nationally resurgent.
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"You are amazed there could be a whole street dedicated to losers, except for Arthur Ashe," said Mr. McEachin, who descends from slaves, referring to the local tennis great who was added to the boulevard over the protests of some white Virginians.
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When Dara, a beautiful spirit warrior, appears with information about Nahri's ancestry, revealing that she descends from a half-human, half-magical tribe, Nahri is taken on an adventure to the city of Daevabad, where she becomes enmeshed in its local politics.
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Ms. Randall Williams descends from Nashville literary royalty: Her mother is the novelist and songwriter Alice Randall; her paternal grandfather was the civil-rights activist Avon Williams; a great-grandfather was the Harlem Renaissance poet (and later Fisk University writer-in-residence) Arna Bontemps.
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Bullfighting — like American rodeos — descends from ancient games involving bulls that date at least as far back as the Epic of Gilgamesh of 2,100 BC. RELATED: The Former Boss of Mexico's Ruling Party Was Just Arrested In Spain Disgust over blood and gore is also ancient, however.
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Many Americans sense that we are now experiencing such a moment, as the nation descends from Cold War colossus to a post-recession "leader from behind" that's no longer capable of imposing its will upon the globe or of guaranteeing long-term economic growth at home.
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But I decide to rally for one last event, Leafly's Bud Drop party, which is like New Year's Eve in Times Square, but it's held at the Mod Club in Toronto and instead of a ball, a giant bud sculpture descends from the ceiling at midnight.
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If you'd rather save your money for basically anything else, just check out the rolling action here: Conversely, if the roll-up TV seems too pedestrian, you can hold out for a TV that descends from the ceiling — which LG just announced at this year's CES.
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The Social Democrats (who currently govern as junior partners under the chancellor, Angela Merkel), along with the Greens and The Left, which descends from the communist party in the former East Germany, are hoping to form a leftist coalition on this issue to unseat Mrs Merkel in 2017.
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This ambitious debut novel opens in 18th-century Ghana and follows seven generations of a family that descends from two half sisters who never knew each other: Effia, who marries an English colonial officer and lives in a coastal palace; and Esi, who is captured and sold into slavery.
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It features a children's chorus, a dance ensemble that plays besieged Victorians as well as undulating Martian weeds, a Martian fighting machine that descends from the ceiling and trundles across the stage, and — in place of Burton's head — the floating, talking face of the actor Liam Neeson projected onto various surfaces.
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The sketch premises aren't treated as outlandish; the show exists in a universe where these things are normal, where one minute you find out your girlfriend's ex is a Japanese penis monster and then Trackanon descends from space to colonize the Earth — but day-to-day life unfolds as we know it.
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The Great Depression spurred Americans to celebrate "real folks," although, as the cultural historian Sonnet Retman has written, that could mean black Southerners, Dust Bowl migrants, industrial workers—or the rural, white "real Americans" mythologized within a nativist tradition that descends from Father Coughlin to Sarah Palin and, now, to Donald Trump.
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Racism and color hierarchy are us, as much as — sometimes more than — the ideals of democracy and fairness... The devaluing of black people that perpetuates bad policing descends from slavery, the national trauma that too often gets passed off as a terrible but isolated event in time — done, over with, only tangentially bearing on our national consciousness now.
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Iván Massagué plays a regular guy who volunteers to spend six months in an experimental government facility which is part prison and part housing project, where a large platter of food descends from the top of a tall tower to the bottom each day — leaving every resident just a few minutes to grab what they can.
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She recently wrote a short manual on rearing a child—"Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions"—but although she is now a published authority on the subject, and holds fully formed opinions on questions such as how gender stereotypes imprison boys as well as girls, she finds that when one descends from principles to logistics things become complicated.
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When they are stumped, which happens about once per episode, the winning act receives a guest spot in the duo's Vegas show and a deliberately cheap-looking trophy that descends from the ceiling and is in the form of the letters FU. All of which would seem to place "Fool Us" squarely in the schadenfreude-rich realm of reality talent shows.
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Since history plays a vital role in the perspectives of Italians, as well as golf aficionados, it is worth noting that Olgiata's original designer was an Englishman named C.K. Cotton who, according to the golf course historian Geoffrey S. Cornish, descends from the design tree of Douglas Rolland, a Scot whose work in the late 19th century is considered among the most influential in the sport.
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Word of the Day : in disarray; extremely disorderly _________ The word disheveled has appeared in 79 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 24 in "Seattle Man Descends From 80-Foot Tree After 24 Hours" by Daniel Victor: The video feed, narrated by a bantering newscaster, was at times a lighthearted affair, but it was also laced with the tension of knowing that the man was in serious danger.
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Well-financed sushi nuts have already had the $145 omakase and been served on both sides of the counter by the profoundly courtly employees of Kosaka; tried Sushi Zo's $200 omakase, the rice almost invisible under very long and very soft and unadorned ribbons of fish; sat down to Ichimura's $300 sonata of fish cured and seasoned in an emphatic style that descends from the days before refrigeration; and handed over as much as $2 to Sushi Ginza Onodera for nigiri and other dishes that are as minutely detailed as the interior is soaringly grand.
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