If you love beer, these truisms yield a glorious thing.
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Yes, getting toys as a child was a glorious thing.
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Women. So let her be every glorious thing that she is.
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But when a chicken cutlet is good, it's a glorious thing.
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I was in control of my body, and it was a glorious thing.
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They teach their four- year-old children that killing Jews is a glorious thing.
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The throw-on sundress has its merit, yes, but layers are a glorious thing of their own.
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A tab that let you see the day's most important tweets at a glance would be a glorious thing.
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Sexuality, a natural and glorious thing in itself, is being stripped of its spontaneity and subjected to contradictory rules.
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But now I think the most glorious thing that can happen to you is to be bad at sports.
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The mayor then delivered what had to be an unintentional straight line: "A large check is a glorious thing, don't you think?"
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I realized how imperfection is a glorious thing, so I finally started to sing with a lot less reverb, and more upfront.
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The "It Gets Better" movement is a glorious thing, for example, but that phrase is repeated too many times in this novel.
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" Just like the followers of the cult in New Ulster, "all of those things that have to do with nationalism, religion—they're all about this big, glorious thing in the future.
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But he skewed more general as the speech went on: "Now nearing 70, I can tell you it doesn't take long to live a life, but the journey is a glorious thing."
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But for the most part, Levy is happy to sit back and let the rest of the Rose family shine — which mostly translates to sitting back and letting O'Hara do her glorious thing.
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"The glorious thing to me of being a Jesuit brother, it's the one place that allowed me to use all the things I love to do," he said, contemplating the way the universe works.
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Even a run-of-the-mill tamale can be a glorious thing, the musty-sweet essence of corn fortified by lard and chicken broth, the sheath of corn husks impressing some lost scent of summer.
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But the next day, all your favorite people will come over to eat this glorious thing you made by yourself, and you'll forget about the stickiness, the harried dance in and out of the oven.
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You may have given yourself the greatest gift of all, but that glorious thing—that baby—will also serve as a constant reminder of an eternal truth for the rest of your life: You are going to die.
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Ms. Benson gives Raphael a speech like that — an ode to what he calls "the serious ones," the women "who carry two books to work in case they finish one on the train" — and it is a glorious thing.
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Track #3 on Side 1 is 'Dulce et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori)'. A rough translation is "It is a sweet and glorious thing (to die for one's country)". Dulce et Decorum Est is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Track #3 on Side 2 is Thanatos, the Greek word for "death" and the name of the ancient Greek god of death.
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" Benjamin also said that she had enjoyed working with Tamzin Outhwaite, who played her on-screen best friend Mel Owen, once again. She said: "When Jon Sen put the call into me and said this is the storyline I said fantastic I get to work with Tamzin again and being with my mate was a glorious thing to get involved in. It was a massive storyline. A really big deal and done really well.
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Christine Orr was born in 1899 in Edinburgh, where she spent most of her life. As a child, she studied at St George's School in Edinburgh; she then went on to university at Somerville College, Oxford. She was only nineteen years old when her first novel was published, a WWI homefront novel set in Edinburgh, called The Glorious Thing. Orr was appointed Organiser of BBC Scotland's Children's Hour in 1936, which was the "most senior post held by a woman in the Regions" during that time.
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Others state that it "serves instead of a lamp at night", has "the appearance of a glowing fire", or of that "of a great flame of fire." Due to its luminescence, Marco Polo called it "The Red Palace Illuminator" (Ball 1938: 499). The English alchemist John Norton wrote a 1470 poem entitled "Ordinal, or a manual of the chemical art", in which he proposed erecting a gold bridge over the River Thames and illuminating it with carbuncles set on golden pinnacles, "A glorious thing for men to beholde" (Ashmole 1652: 27).
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He was Master of the Stevenstone Foxhounds. Captain Clemson was mobilised on 4 August 1914 and sailed for Gallipoli on 24 September 1914, as part of the South Western Mounted Brigade, during which campaign he died from wounds on 9 December 1915. He is remembered by a monument in St Giles' Church inscribed as follows: "In Loving Memory of John Oliver Clemson, of Stevenstone, Captain Royal North Devon Hussars, who was killed in action in Gallipoli 9th December 1915, aged 33. A great and glorious thing it is to die for one's country".
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Following the deaths of six other prisoners, McKeown's family authorised medical intervention to save his life on 6 September, the 70th day of his hunger strike. He described his recollection of the events in an interview: > You're very sleepy and very, very tired and you're sort of nodding off to > sleep but something's telling you to keep waking up. This was the thing that > kept everybody going through the hunger strike in trying to live or last out > as long as possible. I knew death was close but I wasn't afraid to die – and > it wasn't any sort of courageous or glorious thing.
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