As Mr. Langton said: "It's the grandest house, on the grandest street in the grandest part of London."
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On Tennis After being raised on a Swiss farm, Stan Wawrinka took quite some time to feel as though he belonged in the grandest cities and grandest matches.
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But building that infrastructure space is still his grandest dream.
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His grandest gestures could seem shallow, his modest ones bottomless.
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The grandest, most disruptive automation revolution has played out in agriculture.
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It seemed to be striving toward its source material's grandest ambitions.
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Haute couture week, fashion's grandest event, ended on Wednesday in Paris.
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It felt like art, in the grandest sense of the word.
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Once, the grandest people had hosted their get-togethers "At Home".
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In fact, it was one of the grandest places in America.
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As his campaign collapses, he's building his grandest conspiracy theory yet.
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The house's grandest feature — a multistory turret — sits alongside the river.
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Do Grammy live in the tallest skyscraper in the grandest city?
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On the grandest possible scale, however, lumps are a good thing.
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Astronomers consider a full solar eclipse the grandest of cosmic spectacles.
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There is one-upmanship on the grandest scale; there are hangers-on.
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They deserve the opportunity to do so again on football's grandest stage.
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"It's officially the grandest day in Major League Baseball history," wrote MLB.com.
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Dating to 1892, the Pera Palace is one of Turkey's grandest hotels.
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The four-star Hotel Moskva is one of Serbia's oldest — and grandest.
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Her most prized dish was chicken relleno, reserved for the grandest festivities.
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In the grandest traditions of science fiction, Tacoma is a warning story.
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Court also asked for briefing on Texas's third, and grandest, claim—that the
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But at one time, it was the grandest train station in the world.
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But [Angel and Buffy]'s the grandest love story I will ever tell.
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Even your best intentions and grandest ideas are not out of Mercury's reach.
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The true subject of Prince's grandest songs is the grandeur of Prince's songs.
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This hike features some of the grandest sites I've seen at Big Bend.
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From the lowliest studio to the grandest penthouse, nothing in Manhattan is perfect.
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His rapid rise caught the magpie eyes of all of Europe's grandest teams.
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He remains the favorite in California, the grandest delegate trove on the map.
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It is the world's grandest ongoing experiment in polyglot, multi-ethnic, pluralist democracy.
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Theoretical physicists use math to answer some of the grandest questions in the universe.
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This massive, surprisingly inexpensive book depends upon Zwirner, one of our grandest art dealers.
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The stage was set for one of the grandest second acts in entertainment history.
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The grandest universities use suites for comfort but also as a display of prestige.
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In that respect, the cloud may be Alibaba's longest shot — or its grandest ambition.
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By 1950 he was in charge of one of the country's grandest oil empires.
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When he wasn't invited to opera openings and the grandest fetes, he sneaked in.
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This Thursday, the annual new moon in Capricorn turns us all towards our grandest goals.
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FROM PEN: Joss Whedon: Buffy and Angel "Is The Grandest Love Story I'll Ever Tell"
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Musk is known for playing fast and loose with the timelines for his grandest ideas.
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He's carrying it on, and I think he still hasn't had his grandest moment yet.
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Now head chef, Mr Yang helps ensure that little changes at the resort's grandest restaurant.
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Neil Gorsuch is Trump's grandest promise to a supportive electorate and will not be stopped.
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Brussels, the capital, is the repository of Belgium's and the European Union's grandest public buildings.
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They sure don't look scared in this big step up to the game's grandest stage.
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" The library, one of the grandest, most inspiring public spaces in Washington, "is neutral territory.
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For the first time since 22006, players will not compete on the grandest global stage.
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Its competitors are selling off or converting some of their grandest stores, not building new ones.
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CHINA'S GRANDEST music academy this month unveiled a full-length, Western-style opera about Zhou Enlai.
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He did bring America to life for us in the grandest and most intimate terms possible.
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On Friday, he was on tennis's grandest stage again, with the support of an adoring crowd.
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This is Earth at its grandest, set to the telltale violin melody that grounds the score.
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Here in Iowa, the grandest celebration of the date is an event called Yankee Doodle Pops.
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Capturing the vulnerability of the environment's grandest spaces in this manner quickly unravels their perceived permanence.
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Bad weather disrupted Shiffrin's grandest plans from the beginning, postponing each of her first two races.
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He was so full of spirit and life, and the grandest gentleman you could ever meet.
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Even the greatest players in the world were susceptible to nerves on the sport's grandest stage.
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The artists' grandest realization of this theme now stands on the plaza in front of the Guggenheim.
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But if his was a less than stellar night, that can happen on the grandest of stages.
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The New York Public Library's historic Rose Reading Room is one of the city's grandest architectural gems.
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Per Foer: Five separate times Trump attempted Russian projects, hotels, apartments, and retail on the grandest scale.
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We will need the help of the new intelligent machines to turn our grandest dreams into reality.
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To be fair, the curlers' uniforms are not the grandest apparel you'll see during the winter games.
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In 2015 Eton College, one of Britain's grandest schools, opened a debating chamber that cost £18m ($27m).
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The railway station is still among the grandest in east Africa, but the tracks are poorly maintained.
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He traces many flaws in England's system to the gates of its grandest universities, Oxford and Cambridge.
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In recent years giant, 50-storey-plus office towers have sprouted along Reforma, Mexico City's grandest avenue.
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Trump Tower is the Republican nominee's grandest and highest-profile property, and where his campaign is headquartered.
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Its grandest production came in a Hobbit-themed feature in 2014, starring Elijah Wood and Peter Jackson.
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Since then, the festival has grown into one of the grandest events on the world's cultural calendar.
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The Pershing Square Signature Center is one of the grandest, most convivial theater spaces in the city.
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Op-Ed Contributor SEOUL, South Korea — It was one of the grandest banquets my family ever held.
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One of the grandest Diwali celebrations in the U.S. is Saturday in the Cotton Bowl, in Dallas.
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On Monday, right there in Arthur Ashe Stadium, the Open's grandest stage, she realized it was not.
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We tell our children they can be anything they want, that they can achieve their grandest dreams.
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The American internet pioneer Douglas Engelbart suggests that AI's grandest promise is the amplification of human ability.
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It was only a matter of time before the cruelarbitrarinessoftheNFL'sovertimerule would be highlighted on the sport's grandest stage.
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It also bought Louis XVI style desks, tables, and drawers made by some of Paris's grandest furniture makers.
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In 2010 the then-president, François Bozizé, formally rehabilitated him, awarding him the state's grandest medal of honour.
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The essence of the grandest department on Whitehall is not that it deals with the world outside Britain.
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The grandest, the Rijksmuseum, the national repository of Dutch art and history, reopened in 2013, to effusive press.
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At 35, he is playing one of his grandest seasons, his court smarts compensating for any athletic erosion.
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Not least, it is testing the economic logic of China's ability to carry out its grandest of ambitions.
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This person is a treasure and should be honored with the grandest of meme-related gifts this year.
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But it also, frustratingly, kneecaps what should be the MCU's grandest fight scene, Infinity War's invasion of Wakanda.
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That will not stop them celebrating their team's ascendancy on the continent and qualification for the sport's grandest event.
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The Olympics are a time for some of the world's best athletes to compete on the world's grandest stage.
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The grandest of Mr Macron's many ideas involve fixing what he calls the "half-pregnancy" of Europe's single currency.
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ON MAY 3RD an unusual ceremony took place at Westminster Abbey, one of the Church of England's grandest temples.
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"POWER TO THE people" read the words newly emblazoned across the floor of the grandest old building in Taipei.
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EARLIER this month Peking University played host to perhaps the grandest global gathering ever of the higher-education business.
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Opened in 1896 just off Piccadilly Circus, it was one of the largest and grandest restaurants in the world.
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"I just need to just sit down and consider the grandest illusion of them all — me," he tells Dev.
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"She could make any person, whether they were the grandest or the most humble, totally at ease," he says.
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Mexican-born, Brooklyn-based artist Raúl de Nieves' works are some of the grandest on display at the Biennial.
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Bourgeois's hijacking of prints finds its grandest expression in "To Infinity," a suite of 14 large soft-ground etchings.
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Out, too, went Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill and the grandest and most colorful of the Tory grandees.
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George's high-octane pairing with Westbrook could be one of the N.B.A.'s grandest, most dynamic experiments next season.
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The museum, the grandest and most modern in the region, aims to celebrate black civilizations' contributions across the world.
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Philippe, the grandson of the grandest king of all, France's Louis XIV, believes everyone is plotting to usurp him.
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And how our grandest desires, even our most sublime dreams, might just be artificial manifestations of our smartphone dependency.
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After all the grandest, most eye-catching and figurative works—enormous totem poles and paintings—are usually made by men.
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Images: Kim AlbrechtOn the grandest scale, our universe is a network of galaxies tied together by the force of gravity.
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The Acid Interstate is the third and (so far) grandest attempt at a hallucinatory on-rails experience from Mincrafter MiningGodBruce.
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"We're making progress in negotiating on the grandest scale between the two countries ever, we're covering everything," Kudlow told reporters.
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The church's grandest building, the Temple of Solomon, stands in Brás and is modelled on the original, in ancient Jerusalem.
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Facebook's grandest ambitions all involve custom hardware This is all part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's ambitious 10-year road map.
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It's an exciting time for those of us who like watching musical innovation take place at the grandest possible scale.
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The Sword Gate House at 32 Legare St. is one of the oldest and grandest homes in Charleston, South Carolina.
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"The things you must have seen over the last century," Winfrey said, before wishing them "the grandest and greatest" birthday.
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One happy bride is grateful to local firefighters who helped her make the grandest entrance possible on her wedding day.
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Settled in the early 19th century, Coconut Grove has some of the oldest and grandest single-family homes in Miami.
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Held in and around the Cotton Bowl, it is among the largest and grandest Diwali celebrations in the United States.
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Even then, on the grandest stage in the game, Deschamps seemed unwilling to unleash the full fury of his arsenal.
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The grays we touched, the humpbacks, whose waters mesmerized us from 10 feet away are the grandest symphony on Earth.
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In architecture, acoustics should play a greater role in all structures, from mundane apartment buildings to the grandest art museums.
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And they aren't just words, they form the basis on her identity and clearly lay out her biggest and grandest accomplishments.
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"The things you must have seen over the last century," the star said before wishing them "the grandest and greatest" birthday.
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"We have the grandest monarchy in the world embracing right into its heart a family of humble origins," Lacey tells PEOPLE.
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At times, it's a veritable wonder, like the grandest of action games has been shrunk down through some illicit, arcane wizardry.
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He often resorted to gimmickry, from re-enacted movie scenes to lawyerly theatrics to his grandest stunt of all: adding Mrs.
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Les Talens Lyriques specialize in composers from the time of the French Baroque, when Versailles was the grandest court in Europe.
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If not, at least everyone can still enjoy the communal experience of humiliating the New England Patriots on sport's grandest stage.
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Best of all, Gall's young narrator shows how leaps of imagination can transform the grandest milestones into the most personal experiences.
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This might be the site of his father's death, he reasoned, but it was also the site of his father's grandest achievement.
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But it was one of the key building stones for what looks to be one of the grandest Zelda adventures to date.
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It's a sparkly, sinister message-in-a-bottle from the final days before female ambition was excoriated on the grandest scale imaginable.
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He ranks 21rd at his own position in Real Plus-Minus, and was invisible in the biggest moments on the grandest stage.
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Each and every one of them has touched our hearts and has been the example of true 'FAMILY' at its grandest meaning.
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SEATS 124 Jack Magaw visited some of Chicago's grandest movie theaters to assess what he didn't want to incorporate into his design.
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Art Review Make way for Francis Picabia, one of the grandest, most mordant exemplars of early modernism, and perhaps the least familiar.
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Grand Central Terminal, with its celestial ceiling and unshakable aura of Beaux-Arts magnificence, is arguably the grandest space in New York.
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But his four years in Paris were his grandest, and his French collection included most of the prominent artists of his day.
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Among the stars is the queer cabaret artist Justin Vivian Bond, trading Joe's Pub in Manhattan for one of Europe's grandest stages.
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Though Mr. Arens was one of the longest-surviving members of Israel's founding generation, his grandest political and national goals remained unfulfilled.
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On the grandest scale, large objects follow the rules of general relativity, where they interact with one another through the force of gravity.
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On CNN, anchors and panelists alike were declaring the proceedings to be an unresolvable fiasco, sure to end the Hawkeye State's grandest tradition.
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They also require him and his band to tour Germany, where Goebbels himself will be there to watch him in Berlin's grandest arenas.
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THE grandest name associated with the "Paradise Papers", leaked documents that shine light on offshore transactions (see article), is that of Queen Elizabeth.
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Many of its grandest buildings once housed the wealthy tobacco merchants, and the city had huge cigarette factories as recently as the 1980s.
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Ammons knew that permanence was transfigured disposability, an insight that made the lowliest experiences available to a poetry of the grandest imaginative ambition.
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The opulent estates of England and Ireland's royal and blue-blooded dynasties are perennial catnip to those craving inspiration on the grandest scale.
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The soundtrack makes each run feel like the grandest adventure, and yet, death never feels like a failure—there's always the next run.
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Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN)The Louvre Abu Dhabi, with its iconic dome, is set to join the ranks of the world's grandest museums.
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Pet City It is surely one of New York's grandest sights, if you are a dog: Prospect Park on a sunny fall morning.
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He is the city's official clock master and he has been tending some of the city's grandest public clocks since the late 1970s.
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Mr. Cruz is betting that Texas is still Texas, welcoming a divisive Republican president to town and hugging him on the grandest stage.
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Excise taxes on the whiskey industry once provided almost half the federal government's revenues, and Prohibition remains the country's grandest failed social experiment.
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Some of the grandest-looking homes were barely visible, set back at the end of long driveways and hidden behind trees and hedges.
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After carrying the Remparts to the 2006 Memorial Cup, Canadian junior hockey's grandest prize, Radulov was hailed as a hero in the province.
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One of the most notorious is "TickBox," which has been making headlines for its role in enabling piracy on the grandest of scales.
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The United States Open returns this year to one of the grandest sites in golf, Pebble Beach, on the Monterey Peninsula in California.
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However, the center of Marawi - home to its major banks, main market and grandest residences - was under the control of militants for months.
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The move, a day after Mr. Trump scored unexpectedly wide victory margins in sweeping five East Coast states, amounted to the grandest diversionary tactic a presidential candidate can stage — or at least the grandest one available to a candidate trailing by about 400 delegates who failed to win more than 25 percent of the vote in any state on Tuesday.
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She's perched above a mile-high drop into the grandest of canyons, and she bleats at us, oblivious to the infinity in all directions.
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It will include a restored Hall of the Realms, the grandest remnant of the 17th-century palace that once stood on the Prado's site.
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Maybe such analyses are reserved only for the grandest of rock heroes, a stuffy category we consider Prince too good for, but really now.
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Indeed, many would suggest that the figures are a symptom of broader problems with Britain's schools, rather than the fault of its grandest universities.
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It's all in service of the grandest question of all: Why are we here, and what had to happen for us to get here?
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"She was probably one of the nicest, grandest, greatest people I&aposve had the chance to meet in my life," said Duncan, now 84.
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Engineering graduates from one of America's grandest universities, the firm's founders reasoned, were unlikely to welch on their debts, especially with Silicon Valley booming.
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The two married in 1999 at Blenheim Palace, one of England's grandest homes, with friends Elizabeth Hurley and actor Hugh Grant among the guests.
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And while Uber may never become something similar to its investors' grandest imagined dreams, Internet-based ride hailing technology certainly seems here to stay.
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What she didn't know about him then was that he was the heir to one of the grandest titles in Britain: Earl of Devon.
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Perhaps the grandest scientific instrument in the show is a large, round orrery made especially for the Philosophy Chamber by Boston clockmaker Joseph Pope.
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One of Hubbard's grandest ideas—or hopes, as he sometimes calls them—is that everything in the universe possesses either masculine or feminine energy.
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Racial animosity is at the root of all this — and until America finally grapples with it, even the grandest plans will amount to nothing.
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A shining example of powerful women came to me in 2014, ironically while watching the world's grandest men's sporting event, the soccer World Cup.
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Built in the 1880s for the lumber baron William Carson, the 18-room mansion is considered one of the grandest Victorian homes in America.
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And in New York, the grandest among them is City Ballet's, formally known as "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker," which has been performed since 1954.
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Still, even if they can't actualize their grandest plans, Trump and his congressional allies could have a major impact on America's regulatory framework overall.
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In a field stocked with charismatic liberals, there is considerable risk for any candidate who attempts to deflate the grandest hopes of the left.
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The musicians hold concerts in intimate spaces around the city as well as the grandest of ones including, of course, the Sydney Opera House.
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One of the largest and grandest industrial complexes in the United States, it was where products were made and the store's catalog was printed.
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Kate Middleton bonded with families in the grandest of settings on Tuesday evening, as she helped host a party for a charity at Kensington Palace.
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Team USA skaters including Nathan Chen, Adam Rippon, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue will show off their talents on the sport's grandest stage next month.
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And now, Tesla has dimmed the visibility of Full Self-Driving in general, raising questions about the company's approach to one of its grandest goals.
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He might have been more persuasive had he not recorded his speech in the grandest room in the Elysée palace, sitting behind a gilded desk.
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Crashing the Grammys Stage Schmell's biggest and grandest crashing came in early March 1988 when he worked his way into the 30th Annual Grammy Awards.
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Some of India's grandest businessmen complain that they can no longer get in to meet the prime minister, who much prefers wooing foreign bosses instead.
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Then there is one of the grandest draws of Queen Sheba's city – the Great Marib Dam – which was also partially crippled in a 2015 airstrike.
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A fun new twist this time around is the rising trend of "Purge tourism," foreigners flocking to America to take part in our grandest tradition.
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Some of these ideas, like the self-driving car project, have commanded immense resource investment because they represent the company's grandest ideas for the future.
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Democrats chose the vaulted, columned chambers of the Ways and Means Committee — the House's grandest hearing room — to serve as the backdrop for the hearings.
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He's the best finisher in the game and was the best player on the floor on the game's grandest stage two years in a row.
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But someone has to lose to make all this winning possible, and that's undoubtedly Wendy, whom Chuck humiliates on the grandest stage of them all.
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They assessed what remained as they stepped carefully through crumbling walls and climbed over debris that once made up one of the city's grandest buildings.
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In other notable sales, the 1898 limestone-clad Clarence Whitman Mansion on the Upper East Side, one of Manhattan's grandest residences, has a new owner.
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But Lee's and Beitler's grandest ambition, to build a 2,000-foot tower called the Skyneedle that would have been the world's tallest building, remained unrealized.
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Ms. McAndrews said the prominence of the home finally made the community take notice — if it could happen to the grandest homes, it could happen anywhere.
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Andy Lee's otherworldly landscapes bathe some of the Earth's grandest peaks in an unearthly light, one invisible to the naked eye yet beautiful just the same.
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For the Flip or Flop star's 35th, her British TV star beau declared his feelings for her in just about the grandest way possible: sky writing.
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Four years ago, she sat for six days watching her teammates compete at the London Games as she waited for her turn on swimming's grandest stage.
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When Brazil embarked on an orgy of arena construction for the World Cup in 2014, Manaus city leaders decided to build the grandest arena of all.
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Although it has the some of grandest scenery on earth, Iceland is a small country; 16 hours by car will take you on a complete circuit.
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The cherry trees in question line downtown's First Avenue North, which runs along the Cumberland River and fronts Riverfront Park, site of the city's grandest celebrations.
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Yet even at its grandest, most operatic heights, it's hard to escape the sheer amount of death John Wick deals out, sometimes just because it's easiest.
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Today, governments that have relied upon quantitative easing (QE) instead of undertaking necessary structural reforms have arguably entered into the grandest Faustian bargain in financial history.
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The Champions League, the grandest tournament in club soccer, faces the prospect of being suspended after Real Madrid became the latest team to go into quarantine.
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And by rewarding the discovery of the first exoplanet, Lord Rees says the Nobel committee has highlighted "astronomy as also the grandest of the environmental sciences".
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Mashable has been tracking the grandest examples of Hollywood vaporware in 2015, some of which may see the light of day, most of which will not.
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These images and data will be both incredible and useful for scientists trying to understand who we are and how we got here on the grandest scales.
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With a simple nod to Alba, Michael delivers his vows in Spanish as the grandest gesture of romance that Jane or anyone on this show have witnessed.
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In recent days, Belgium's politicians have been focusing not on the smaller mosques thronged by migrants but on the capital's oldest and grandest place of Muslim worship.
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The grandest and most beloved stories come full circle in the end, and Game of Thrones' Season 8 premiere proved that it intends to do just that.
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Honing my skills, dying repeatedly, and teaching myself the ins and outs of the new experience until I felt comfortable enough to challenge the level's grandest foe.
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What Google is doing with its modular Project Ara smartphone is perhaps its grandest experiment yet: developing hardware out in the open as if it were software.
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The Korean Peninsula's Demilitarized Zone, the world's most fortified border and of late perhaps its grandest stage for political theater, has been the site of uncommon activity.
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It's phantasmagoric performance art on the world's grandest stage, which makes it only more remarkable that Putin has spent so little time as the subject of fiction.
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But by the time he reached the grandest stage in basketball, the N.B.A., he was at an advanced age for a rookie and recovering from knee surgery.
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On the ground: The Grandest Tour ($128,000 per person) is a 9-country, 21-night tour to Japan, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Bhutan, India, Greece, Montenegro and Italy.
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The grandest stars run year after year deep into the playoffs, and over the course of their careers will wind up playing extra seasons' worth of games.
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OTTAWA — A hundred years after the National Hockey League was born in Montreal's grandest hotel, the Windsor, the league is back where it all began this weekend.
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To begin with, it rewrote history at the grandest level: Empires fell, and new nations--Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Poland among them-- were born in the ashes.
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Described as "perhaps the grandest of all the State Rooms in Buckingham Palace," the White Drawing Room is often used for audiences with the monarch and small gatherings.
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The candidate most closely allied with Mr Najib won the contest to replace him as head of Malaysia's oldest and grandest political party, the United Malays National Organisation.
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First class air travel, the grandest limousines and nights in the best hotels would all be consigned to the past as the new president implements cost-saving measures.
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You can't help but feel nostalgic for those days in Manhattan's grandest hotel—unless, of course, you had the misfortune of crossing the tenant in Suite 1001–1003.
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The seventh seed had lost in the first round of both her tournaments so far this year, but back on one of the sport's grandest stages, she shone.
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And he knew the Stingel and Guyton catalogs backward and forward, which earned him capital, particularly with art world players who had not yet realized their grandest ambitions.
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Smaller-budget films and television will fill in some of the gaps, as they already are, but the grandest productions will be reserved for the cautious and competent.
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Graham and Durbin went to the White House to present it to Trump; they had a proposal that had the potential to be one of Washington's grandest bargains.
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UPSCALE Mr. Buys would book our theoretical big-spender on a private helicopter tour of Cape Town and some of the city's grandest neighborhoods and seemingly endless coastline.
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But the grandest monument can be found deep in a verdant park called Domaine National de St.-Cloud in the commune of Marnes-la-Coquette, just outside Paris.
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The Breakers — the grandest of the coastal mansions — was derided by some as too ostentatious (it was among the largest homes in the country when it was built).
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Many of the grandest castles from the first boom have become museums: Hearst Castle, which is south of San Francisco; Mr. Pitcairn's Glencairn, outside Philadelphia; and Hammond Castle.
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This development marks a major change for Beyoncé, who until now has pointedly restricted her grandest musical accomplishment to platforms in which she herself has a vested interest.
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WATCH: Joss Whedon: Buffy and Angel "Is The Grandest Love Story I'll Ever Tell" Gellar also posted funny videos of her trying to talk to her unresponsive wax figure.
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After setting the stage with Night of the Living Dead and later, Dawn of the Dead, Romero was prepared to make his grandest cultural statement on human nature yet.
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The grandest idea the governor outlined includes a new sunlight-drenched station entrance on Eighth Avenue, but that requires getting rid of a 5,600-seat theater under the Garden.
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He just knows that a decentralized network connecting everyone's mobile phones around the world just might be the perfect way to deploy his algorithm at the grandest possible scale.
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After struggling through the first five games of the World Series (4-for-19 with 2 RBI entering tonight), Addison Russell busted out in the biggest, grandest possible way.
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That P.S.G. simply cannot make that final leap onto the grandest stage of all, into the semifinals and final of the Champions League, has become an article of faith.
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Sure, there are near-life-size works, but for me the grandest, most impressive achievements in this exhibition are often no bigger than a thumb, or even a thumbnail.
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More than half a century before Boston goalie Tuukka Rask first stepped onto Finnish ice, Detroit staged one of its grandest banquets, a jubilant affair celebrating unparalleled sports excellence.
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When daylight saving time begins and ends, it falls to Marvin Schneider, 79, New York's official clock master, to reset some of the grandest public clocks in the city.
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Still, Republicans in Congress have yet to achieve some of their grandest dreams, like huge tax cuts for the wealthy, and they are counting on Mr. Trump to deliver.
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Of his most unmistakable trademarks, it was his viper-intensity, his steely dedication and refusal to be made small by opponents, that defines him in the grandest of hues.
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His current act as Trump's globe-hopping investigator and defender whose actions have helped spur an impeachment inquiry in Congress is a legacy-altering role, and probably his grandest.
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Unlike more discreet watchmakers, Hublot is not the kind of brand that is going to install a tourbillon — the grandest of complications — and keep it hidden under the dial.
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Inquiry here shows that the swindler is the authentic Prince Looz, a rake of about thirty years of age, belonging to one of the oldest and grandest Belgian families.
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With no other place to go, the architects are puncturing the grandest of these stairs to construct a tunnel that will take visitors with mobility issues to the new elevators.
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The 26-year-old actor told Glamour that the " grandest romantic gesture" he's ever done for his girlfriend and "Riverdale" co-star Lili Reinhart, 22, involved a hot-air balloon.
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But the tournament cannot be staged in the city's grandest tennis stadium, Arenele BNR, which was condemned a few years ago for being at too great a risk of collapse.
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Start with your grandest ideas, and any eventual compromise is likely to end up in the middle; start with middling ideas, and your compromise will end up as right-lite.
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The yearly bloom of cherry blossoms in Washington, one of the grandest and most colorful of the capital's annual traditions, is also one of its most fragile and weather-dependent.
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Held in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the ball, with 400 guests dressed as allegorical figures (and, crucially, photographed), was the grandest fancy dress ball of the century.
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He sacrificed for his beliefs and with a dignified use of free speech, that grandest of American traditions, he came to personify a coming of political age across several sports.
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The three-day visit swept through some of the grandest spaces in Paris: reception rooms at the Hôtel de Ville, the hall of mirrors at Versailles, the presidential Élysée Palace.
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" New flagships have opened recently in Seattle and Thailand, to name a couple, and so has "one of our grandest forums in Europe, part of the creative renaissance in Paris.
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Except Rodgers is doing it on football's grandest stage, all while dodging 300-pound human bullets sprinting at freakishly high speeds who want nothing more than to tear his head off.
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Despite her struggles, Osaka is still among the favorites at the All England Club this year due to her ability to bring out her best tennis on the game's grandest stages.
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Now that he is France's president, Mr Macron is trying to revive the grandest idea of all in European business: creating continental champions capable of taking on American and Chinese firms.
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We got the Hulkster touching down at LAX ... and he immediately shut down the rumors of his 24-inch pythons popping up at the grandest stage of them all next weekend.
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Here are portraits of some of them, including an Algonquin D.J. (that's Cory Whiteduck, above), a Muslim leader, the doorman at Quebec City's grandest hotel and a well-known detective novelist.
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The fear — for UEFA, in particular — is that as these smaller leagues have recently begun to show signs of competitive life, Europe's grandest stages are starting to go the other way.
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Sanders wants to go further and, while he would probably fail to accomplish his grandest goals (again, like Medicare for all), he would also move the country in a positive direction.
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But perhaps the grandest accomplishment of all is our ability to innovate in our effort to study in detail some of the oldest and most mind-boggling questions of our universe.
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"The decadal survey has given the breath of life to some of the grandest things we've ever done in astronomy," says astronomer Grant Tremblay of Harvard and Smithsonian's Center for Astrophysics.
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London's Metropolitan Police have one of the grandest looking "Running Man Challenge" videos, but if they just had a little more wow factor in their performance, they could have been on top.
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The grandest display in what appears to be Ray's Lake Luzerne home in upstate New York is a winter white-themed tree with snowflake ornaments, silver doves and plenty of fake snow.
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This is a startling reversal of fortunes for a clique of businessmen who have held on to companies through multiple past restructurings, and whose number includes some of corporate India's grandest names.
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WILL BRADLEYLas Vegas Schumpeter wrote about Emmanuel Macron wanting to revive the "grandest idea of all in European business: creating continental champions capable of taking on American and Chinese firms" (November 4th).
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The next grandest claim in the industry is AeroFarms, a Newark, New Jersey company with nine indoor farms, which says it can get to 20173 times the amount of produce per acre.
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You'll learn all this and more on Green-Wood's Twilight Tour, which surveys the cemetery's grandest grave markers and the New Yorkers who lie beneath them, all in the stillness of dusk.
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It's become a major player in satellite launches, and achieved some impressive milestones, but some of the targets and timelines related to its grandest plans have turned out to be wildly optimistic.
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Although some of the grandest names in photography have been shortlisted, among them Edward Burtynsky, Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth, the judges have generally surprised critics by choosing more left-field winners.
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Historic estates with river frontage and multiple outbuildings represent the grandest examples, even if they're but leftover crumbs from the original properties held by prominent Hudson Valley landowners, like the Livingston family.
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It features two symphonies — one Classical (Mozart's No. 25), one Neo-Classical (Prokofiev's No. 1) — as well as one of the grandest of the Romantic odes to solo virtuosity, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.
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It transported almost 4,000 guests wearing their best furs and silk chiffons into the circular belly of one of London's grandest buildings: the Royal Albert Hall, bedecked in its own festive finery.
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The Intelligence Committee held all of its impeachment hearings in that room — one of the largest and grandest in the Capitol — and Judiciary is following suit, at least for its first hearing.
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As we watch Mar go from prizewinner to poet laureate to an official in the chaotic government (that poets are necessary is the play's grandest contention) Pen has ideas of her own.
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Its title means something like "chaos" or "hell," and it offers a not-far-from-real story of child abuse, vicious poverty and despair only a short drive from Lebanon's grandest neighborhoods.
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No other superstar in rap's short history has been able to reach across generational and cultural lines without compromise, let alone being able to dictate their own narrative on the grandest stages.
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The blackened skeleton of Grenfell Tower now looks like an ugly scar in a landscape where cramped social housing sits but a few streets away from some of the grandest terraces in London.
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Mr. Boulez gained further government support in the '80s, when he achieved his grandest project, the City of Music complex in Paris, housing the Paris Conservatoire, a concert hall and an instrument museum.
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But when it comes to the incredibly human propensity to overindulge our grandest ambitions and worst impulses through technology, I think From Beyond is up there with any other film you can mention.
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However, May is not known for her winning cocktail hour chat, and the staunchest of euroskeptic MPs are unlikely to back down even in the surroundings of No. 163's grandest state rooms.
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In its inviting, oddball, post-Romantic way, "God" spans the grandest of contradictions: the intertwined truths that sorrow holds dominion over our happiness, but we might yet find ourselves liberated from its thrall.
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"It is the grandest and silliest cinematic carnival to come along in quite some time: a lurching journey through one filmmaker's personal fun house," Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times.
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EPERNAY, France — In rolling vineyards under rosy skies, a four-course dinner by two Michelin-starred chefs was held in front of one of the grandest 28th-century homes in Champagne this week.
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Officially, however, the competition will remain the Davis Cup, at least in the short term, with the champions still getting their mitts on one of the oldest and grandest trophies in global sports.
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But his struggles hardly mattered: For one night, on the grandest stage of his embryonic career, in one of the most glamorous cities in the world, he was the biggest star of all.
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The town's spas stretch along a narrow island opposite the city center, presided over by the Hotel Thermia Palace, the grandest of the venues and once host to European royalty and Indian maharajahs.
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Meanwhile, the grandest Russian church in Paris, near the Arc de Triomphe, operated and still remains under the authority of Constantinople as the hub of a thriving and relatively liberal-minded Russo-French community.
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The Burberry show is always one of the grandest on the London Fashion Week schedule — not only because of its established following, but also because of its consistent celebration of British culture and fashion.
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Democrats chose the House's grandest hearing room to serve as the backdrop and intend to take advantage of special rules allowing longer, more detailed lines of questioning better suited to such a complicated subject.
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And let's be frank: This is a no-kidding Met power moment, with monumental pictures by three of the grandest painters of the Venetian age, meaning of any age, lined up side by side.
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The predicted loss of glaciers in Glacier is both ironic and iconic, for no other reason than that they are the namesake of one of our oldest, grandest, most famous, and wildest national parks.
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But the park's grandest work is Giuliano Mauri's ''Tree Cathedral'' (2001), a towering (40 feet tall and growing) temple to nature, made with reinforced timber columns and a vaulted canopy of sloping hornbeam branches.
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Shares in Monte dei Paschi di Siena, which was involved in Italy's grandest banking fiasco, surrendered 4 percent on Monday on expectations that a private sector rescue devised by Mr. Renzi had been killed.
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In the first part of his reign, Justinian codified all of Roman law, went on the grandest building spree in Christian history (including erecting the Hagia Sophia), and took back Roman Africa and Italy.
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The beat-up Warriors' response to profound disappointment on the game's grandest stage, after Kawhi Leonard and his Toronto Raptors finished them off in six games, is nowhere near as clear cut in 2019.
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No matter how you feel about President Trump, any move by the courts to severely increase their power and effectively rewrite the Constitution needs to be done on the grandest and most public stage possible.
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The story of his leap from solitary confinement to opera's grandest stage is the subject of a book released this month, "Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family," by Daniel Bergner.
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"Bullitt has been part of my family for 45 years and we have celebrated her in the grandest way possible, and now it will have a new role and new meaning to the future owner."
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The victorious candidate will assume one of the grandest and most important jobs in politics — a position so ancient that it makes the prime ministership, dating from the 0003th century, look like a recent development.
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Ibrahimovic, for a long time, was regarded as something of a flat-track bully: a star for teams who could crush all of their domestic opponents but were unable to shine on the grandest stages.
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But if you put aside some of the grandest presidential promises, you can see some ways in which the deal does represent progress toward achieving a more stable relationship between the world's two largest economies.
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He has been as good at communicating with the big crowds who have paid to see him (and often only him) as he has been adept at shutting down all opposition on the grandest occasions.
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Grab coffee at Temple Coffee Roasters, a highfalutin caffeine palace that opened its grandest location — which includes a floor hand-laid with 6683,000 pennies — in 2016 in an 1880s building in the trendy Midtown neighborhood.
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Most of the pillaged architectural elements taken from villages such as Joinville are relatively mundane and have only limited value compared with the art and architecture of France's grandest homes, which often include unique pieces.
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Marsch, the first American to coach on Europe's grandest stage, should be heartened, though, by how his team performed on the way: going toe-to-toe with Liverpool across two games, and matching Napoli, too.
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He also invited U.S. President Donald Trump to watch a military parade on the grandest avenue of Paris on Bastille Day last July to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War One.
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Global audiences can often be left captivated when he performs on the grandest of stages, but his tendancy to dive has riled many people — including a British politician, who called him a "clown" in the summer.
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His planes may not have always flown, and his grandest idea never took off — but we should celebrate Brewster's legacy, as an architect inspired by the smallest of structures to calculate solutions for our sprawling world.
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On Thursday, Putin received the monarch in the gold-decorated St. Andrew Hall, one of the grandest spaces in the Kremlin, attended by soldiers in ceremonial dress and with an orchestra playing their countries' national anthems.
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Breath of the Wild isn't just one of the grandest Zelda games ever, or one of 2017's best releases — it's also a game that will likely shape the open-world genre for years to come.
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But "Distortion," at its epic length, and epoch-spanning scale, feels like his grandest attempt at pinning down the questions of mortality that—he says in the song—have plagued him since he was a child.
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The New York City subway system is one of the grandest 20th-century civic projects in the world, including incredible spaces like the now-closed City Hall station with its Guastavino tile arches and glass skylights.
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In the grandest irony of all, the greatest benefit of an everyday, utilitarian AI will not be increased productivity or an economics of abundance or a new way of doing science—although all those will happen.
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Pueblo Bonito is the largest and grandest of the 12 "great houses" at Chaco, with some 600 rooms and 40 kivas, which are large round ceremonial rooms dug into the Earth and lined with stone masonry.
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That last kinship is understandable, because space missions are a longstanding passion of Mr. Sachs, whose grandest installation to date, "Space Program 2.0: MARS," colonized the enormous drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory in 2012.
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Large aquatic animals affect their ecosystems, of course, but if you want to meet the creatures that are really running the show on the grandest scales and over the longest time frames, you need a microscope.
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Gagosian is the grandest and, apparently, the highest earning, of the mega-dealers who gate-keep the grounds of contemporary art, deciding which museum, collection or egregiously wealthy client can get what and at what price.
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The trophies that had been proof of how high this club had flown — becoming one of Italy's grandest houses, a force in both Serie A and in Europe — came to symbolize how far it had fallen.
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ATLANTA — The grandest annual exhibition in college sports — the N.C.A.A. men's and women's Division I basketball tournaments — will be played without spectators in the arenas as the United States grapples with the spread of the coronavirus.
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The Privacy, which was Woods's honeymoon gift to his now ex-wife, was not the grandest boat in sight, and off its bow was a yacht with a name that sounded like a taunt: the Indiscretion.
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The show with the widest appeal may be the three large installation pieces in "Until" by the Chicagoan Nick Cave in Building 26 — an open, column-free football-field-size space that remains MASS MoCA's grandest.
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But nevertheless he was gearing up to play at MSG, one of basketball's grandest stages, and the Lakers -- the league's defending champions -- were in a tight race for the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference.
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In a country flush with optimistic venture-capital investors and a lot of other cash sources, money often goes to the company that makes the grandest prediction — putting intense pressure on that company to follow through.
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The grandest food hall of them all is inside the sprawling brick Ponce City Market, a former Sears distribution center developed into a mixed-use complex by the team that created Chelsea Market in New York.
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FROM PEN: Joss Whedon Says Buffy and Angel 'Is the Grandest Love Story I'll Ever Tell' Rutherford, 48, played Lily (mother to Blake Lively's Serena van der Woodsen) on the beloved CW drama, which concluded in 2012.
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Stitched together from hundreds of thousands of real photographs, it builds one of the grandest virtual worlds I've ever seen, a crisp and severe landscape that's marred only by the limits of the HTC Vive's screen resolution.
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It's simultaneously his longest, grandest production to date—clocking in at over three hours (including an intermission), the film's being toured nationwide on the rare, expensive Ultra Panavision 70mm film format—as well as his most dubious.
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One of the grandest things about the new Senate version of the tax cuts is that stuff for multinational corporations is meant to last forever, while stuff for middle-class taxpayers would fade away after a decade.
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He has led some of the city's grandest events, opening the Metropolitan Opera's season conducting an acclaimed production of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" and leading the Philadelphia Orchestra in Mahler's grandly despairing Sixth Symphony at Carnegie Hall.
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And yet, somehow, it was also a contest that, with just a few seconds remaining before Skomina finally blew his whistle and confirmed Liverpool's return to the grandest game in club soccer, hung entirely in the balance.
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" Fukuyama also summarized Alexandre Kojève's judgment of the postwar European countries as "precisely those flabby, prosperous, self-satisfied, inward-looking, weak-willed states whose grandest project was nothing more heroic than the creation of the Common Market.
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This gluttonous spectacle, courtesy of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, captures not the biggest or grandest of galaxies, but one of the most luminous such bodies ever discovered—350 trillion times brighter than our sun.
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This gluttonous spectacle, courtesy of NASA's space-based Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, captures not the biggest or grandest of galaxies, but one of the most luminous such bodies ever discovered—20183 trillion times brighter than our sun.
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Keke Palmer took to the big stage in Paris' AccorHotels Arena over the weekend, performing for millions of League of Legends fans in a grand opening ceremony that rivaled any of the grandest events seen in traditional sports.
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From the shop floors of factories to ballet's grandest stages, organized labor is struggling to balance a set of competing and sometimes conflicting interests as it grapples with the sharp uptick in #MeToo-related cases in recent years.
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An emblem as much of the United Nations' most ingrained flaws as of its grandest aspirations, Mr. Annan was the first secretary general to be chosen from among the international civil servants who make up the organization's bureaucracy.
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The grandest gesture of chivalry and virtue is a harshly worded memo released by Kensington Palace in 2016 decrying "the wave of abuse and harassment" in the media and the internet at large that descended upon Ms. Markle.
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Before this revival, before Shanahan and Lynch started molding this team to their specifications three years ago, the 49ers hosted the N.F.L.'s grandest celebration — the 50th edition of the Super Bowl — at the apex of their dysfunction.
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Their grandest achievement together has been the two-disc collection "Carnevale 1729" (2017), which sprang from the idea of bringing together selections from operas that premiered in Venice during a single Carnival season, excavated by Mr. Schmitt-Hallenberg.
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The Bank of England's governor has unveiled a new 10-pound note featuring Jane Austen at one of England's grandest cathedrals, 200 years to the day since one of Britain's most-loved novelists was laid to rest there.
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Prayuth Chan-ocha, the leader of the junta, has scolded Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, a student activist, for campaigning against a tradition whereby students at Thailand's grandest university prostrate themselves in front of a statue of its eponymous founder, King Chulalongkorn.
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A Swiss-born British citizen, he is resident mainly in France; one of his horses recently won the Epsom Derby, one of the grandest British races of the year; he also skied for Iran in the 1964 Winter Olympics.
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On Easter Sunday 1977, while humming the words to a classic Irving Berlin song, I pretended to be Judy Garland: In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade.
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Here are some of the people I met along the way, including an Algonquin D.J., the doorman at Quebec City's grandest hotel, a 227-year-old left-wing separatist leader, a 220-year-old conservationist and a detective novelist.
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Mr. Aguiar, 51, and Mr. Haldeman, 57, exchanged vows before heading to yet another New York City Easter Parade, where the magic of one man's camera turned them into the grandest of fellows along the bustling Fifth Avenue route.
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Completed in 26 as the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company, the 16-story building occupies an entire city block with its grandest portion, fronting on Broadway, designed by McKim, Mead & White — the starchitects of their day.
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President Trump himself, one of the grandest boasters of the strength and resilience of markets and the American economy, appeared to capitulate on Monday with a more somber tone reflecting the immense magnitude of the challenge facing the nation.
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And as construction moves ahead on Mexico's grandest infrastructure project in decades, the much-heralded environmental protection effort is still so devoid of detail, critics say, that it raises questions of credibility and actually obscures the risk of flooding.
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The price for the third-floor unit at 960 Fifth, which faces Central Park and is one of the city's grandest prewar apartment houses, was $55 million, according to property records, making it the priciest closed sale in May.
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It is one of the grandest political operas to debut in Beijing since the Cultural Revolution, when Mao and his wife, Jiang Qing, made works celebrating the Communist Party a mandatory part of the repertoire at Chinese concert halls.
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While appeasing copyright holders with regards to user-generated videos is a near-term concern for Facebook, the move would be a step toward realizing the company's grandest vision for online video, something CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been plotting for years.
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FROM PEN: Joss Whedon: Buffy and Angel "Is The Grandest Love Story I'll Ever Tell" On the year anniversary of her death, Oswalt remembered his late wife in a lengthy Facebook post — expressing a combination of grief, gratitude and perseverance.
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Thus Durham Cathedral, one of the grandest places of worship in England, will this week host an event celebrating the role of the church as a place of refuge to newcomers (including help to recent arrivals from Syria) over ten centuries.
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To protect the precious tropical darlings, inventive gardeners like James Paxton, working for the first and grandest of the orchid lovers, the Duke of Devonshire, developed the glass enclosures adopted by plant museums and public gardens all over the world.
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Bisbee '17 is Greene's grandest attempt thus far to explore that question and how it affects not just individuals but whole societies (and in this way, it shares DNA with other nonfiction films like Spettacolo and The Act of Killing).
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The rivals, playing out their tragicomic duel on the grandest electoral stage, are like two Shakespearean protagonists falling prey to hubris, the excessive pride that can make a politician believe the rules that govern normal mortals do not apply to them.
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And while it may be named after the grandest French chateau on the Loire, once home to the 18th-century deposed King of Poland, it offers rather more modest accommodation for today's exile behind an elegant 1920s Art Deco facade.
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Perhaps it is ideological, stemming from a belief that the state should not be involved in the economy (despite the fact that the creation of America's tech-innovation system resulted from one of the grandest public-private partnerships ever created).
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Fragonard's eye for picturesque scenes of daily life in Rome — especially featuring laundresses and young female water-carriers — encouraged Robert to introduce such genre vignettes into even his grandest paintings of monuments, bringing to them an element of vivacity and humor.
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NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — In the grandest gesture yet of her young administration, Myanmar's leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, opened a peace conference on Wednesday to bring together hundreds of the country's ethnic armed groups in hopes of ending decades of conflict.
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On June 2151, LeBron James delivered on the grandest stage of his superhuman career, leading the _________ to their first championship in franchise history with a 2126-2130 victory over the Golden State Warriors in Game 2152 of the N.B.A. finals. 214.
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The House and Senate are both expected to consider legislation later this year that would implement some of the reforms that voters crave, and the president's words on the world's grandest political stage gave Congress a clear runway to act.
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It must feel so out-of-touch with reality, too, when your life includes sitting front row at Fashion Week and attending some of the grandest, most exclusive events in the world (like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's nuptials, for example).
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Then after about a 20-minute trek, with pine trees giving way to a field of wispy yellow and pink wildflowers, I saw it, Capote's last — and grandest — home on the Mediterranean, a whitewashed villa with a dark green gate.
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Would we finally, in the grandest episode the show has ever attempted, get a fight that was just too large to render in a way that would both do justice to the conflict and also land with sufficient emotional impact?
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It remains telling that the Met's "Ring" — the prime stated purpose of which is to evocatively handle scene changes — is so incoherent in this final sequence of apocalypse, the grandest series of transitions in the cycle, precisely described in Wagner's libretto.
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The Champions League, the richest, grandest tournament in club soccer, and other top competitions faced an uncertain future Thursday as positive tests and growing wariness about exposure to the novel coronavirus continued to wreak havoc on the global sports calendar.
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London Theater Reviews LONDON — "Antony and Cleopatra" may be the grandest and most rhetorically heightened of Shakespeare's doomed romances, but Simon Godwin's electrifying new production for the National Theater is the first I've seen that does justice to both title characters.
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Critic's Notebook HAMBURG, Germany — When Europeans of the 18th and 19th centuries established their grandest museums, each building meant to unite the world's cultural heritage under a single roof, they had no doubt as to who should explain it all: themselves.
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The month's biggest co-op sale was a stately unit on the 10th floor of the 12-story 960 Fifth, at East 77th Street, designed by Rosario Candela in the late 1920s and considered one of the city's grandest apartment houses.
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LeBron James delivered on the grandest stage of his superhuman career, leading the _________ to the first championship in their history with a 93-89 victory over the Golden State Warriors in Game 7 of the N.B.A. finals on June 19. 24.
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On Wednesday, China will honor Trump with not just an official "state visit" — typically the grandest and friendliest invitation that a visiting head of state is offered — but rather with a "state visit-plus," according to Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai.
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RELATED: Giuliani on rigged election: 'Dead people generally vote for Democrats' Given that Trump has branded himself in politics, business and life as the ultimate winner, the prospect of a crushing defeat in November on the grandest stage must be a bitter one.
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And lots of the grandest theories of the universe, theories you've probably heard of including string theory, M theory, and the grand unified theory (GUT) that unites the electromagnetic with the weak and strong nuclear forces at high energies all require a monopole.
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The removal of Robert E. Lee, who for the last 133 years has surveyed downtown New Orleans from a pedestal atop a busy traffic circle on the city's grandest street, marked the end of an exhausting ordeal that has lasted nearly two years.
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"In the grandest tradition of exploration, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has once again blazed a trail, showing us new wonders and demonstrating where our curiosity can take us if we dare," said Jim Green, director of the NASA's Planetary Science Division in a statement.
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Two of the NFL's most respected minds will come head to head on the grandest of stages when Rams coaching prodigy Sean McVay meets Patriots counterpart Bill Belichick, a five-times Super Bowl champion widely considered the best NFL coach of all time.
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Our world relies on energy, and our grandest global challenge is providing electricity to the 22019 billion people living in energy poverty today and for the additional 2 billion people on our planet by the year 2050 who will double energy demand.
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Wednesday's session in the vaulted, columned chambers of the Ways and Means Committee — the House's grandest meeting room — will be only the third time in modern American history that lawmakers have convened a public hearing to consider the impeachment of a president.
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The king used a speech to lawmakers and diplomats in one of parliament's grandest halls to express his regret over Britain's decision to leave the European Union next year - a body he said was flawed, but which had also made great achievements.
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She has spent more than half of her life in the spotlight, emerging at age 13 on the grandest stage in women's golf by playing her way into the last day's final group of the major now known as the ANA Inspiration.
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From the administration's opening stanzas — when Mr. Trump let fly his "American carnage" inaugural address — to his swaggering turn last month before the United Nations, it is Mr. Miller's worldview, as often as anyone's, that the president projects on the grandest scale.
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The turmoil in the former British colony was in sharp contrast to the rest of China, where hundreds of millions of people watched on television or online what was billed as the grandest military parade in the history of the People's Republic.
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The bathhouse is a carbon copy of Jiufen's grandest building, the 100-year-old Amei Tea House, unmistakable in side-by-side comparisons thanks to the signature rows of red lanterns and the beautiful, soft light that glows from its large glass windows at night.
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CNN followed the Briton to Sumba, Indonesia where he was engaged in a manta ray tagging study, and on to the Great Barrier Reef, where an ambitious citizen-led initiative could open up new perspectives on one of nature's grandest -- and most threatened -- treasures.
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Kulturgeschichte, arguably her best-known work, is described by Lynne Cooke: Comprised of 265,21880 sheets, each measuring fifty by seventy centimeters, and nineteen sculpture-objects, Kulturgeschichte 21983-21968 (Cultural History 21917–21), 153–215, is one of Darboven's grandest, most epic works to date.
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The role of Titania beautifully showcases dissimilar dancers: young Miriam Miller, with face and limbs registering wonderfully throughout the theater, is all springtime bloom; Teresa Reichlen, marvelously incisive and exact, is warmly imperious; Sara Mearns, at her freshest and grandest, makes the dance joyously voluptuous.
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Almost all of the 4,000 guests assembled inside the Royal Albert Hall, one of London's grandest buildings, were stunned when the duchess emerged to present Clare Waight Keller, the artistic director of Givenchy, with the award for British designer of the year for women's wear.
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The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, on the edge of the city's pleasant, shaded zócalo — which is itself a terrific place for watching local families and groups of teenagers — is by far the largest, the grandest and the most exuberant of these structures.
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In addition to her knack for carefully curated company, she had a very American love of British tradition and an equally American insistence on nontraditional comforts: central heating, entertainment for women guests and en-suite bathrooms, a novelty at even the grandest country houses.
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Nine months later, he is a superstar, one so young that he is expected to carry one of the world's grandest clubs in two of its biggest competitions, at the same time as his parents take six-month shifts living with him in Madrid.
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Even Hawkinson's grandest undertakings, like the 2007 "Überorgan" that filled the Getty Center in Los Angeles with a massive bagpipe-esque device, have felt a bit shambly, like their mad-scientist mix of found objects and motorized parts might fly apart at any moment.
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"PM BORIS" The rise of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, often referred to as simply "Boris", to prime minister is the grandest twist in a career that has taken him from journalism via TV-show fame, comedy and scandal into the cauldron of the Brexit crisis.
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"In the grandest tradition of exploration, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has once again blazed a trail, showing us new wonders and demonstrating where our curiosity can take us if we dare," Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement.
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Julian Assange's grudge against Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE is playing out on the grandest stage possible.
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Speaking in one of the Kremlin's grandest halls three days after he ordered Russian forces to partially withdraw from Syria, the Russian leader said the smaller strike force he had left behind was big enough to help forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad keep advancing.
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"Austin," which opens to the public this month, is very much the culmination of Kelly's oeuvre, not just a summation of his work's themes but his masterpiece, the grandest exploration of pure color and form in a seven-decade career spent testing the boundaries of both.
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Even after HBO signed his company, Roughcut TV, to a deal in 2015, he lived quite lean: Unlike his friend Ricky Gervais, who bought himself a massive brick mansion in Hampstead, Atalla's grandest possessions until recently were an Audi A7 and a rose gold Rolex Daytona.
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It even contemplated taking the annual Super Cup final outside of the continent as a trial run as early as 2020, but stepped back after objections from the organization's smaller member nations, who see that game as their only chance of hosting one of soccer's grandest occasions.
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DUBLIN — When Boris Johnson visited Ireland's prime minister, Leo Varadkar, in Dublin last month as part of a last-minute scramble to reach some sort of Brexit deal, the two leaders began their day with a media briefing on the steps of one of Dublin's grandest buildings.
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To celebrate his return, and his rebirth, Gucci Mane booked a night at Atlanta's grandest venue, the Fox Theatre, a former movie palace with an ornate ceiling, decorated with trompe-l'oeil stars, and nearly five thousand seats, all of which sold soon after the concert was announced.
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Hirshland: The first is, maintaining clear focus on the mission to empower athletes to succeed on the highest level, on the grandest stages, and doing so in an environment that provides them the safety, the resources and the tools they need to be successful in that adventure.
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It's not the grandest historic site, and like most manhole covers is likely to have a used cigarette or scrap of trash wedged on its surface, but it's one of those enduring reminders of the incredible engineering that's allowed the growth of a city of millions.
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Like the e-sports Super Bowl, TI is the grandest tournament that every player wants to be a part of, so if Valve's changes have the desired effect, we'll see a fairer, more predictable system, which should also make for more competitive and watchable matches along the way.
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The race marked the last time Phelps and Lochte will go head-to-head in an American pool but the two swimming giants, who between them have amassed 33 Olympic medals, could clash one final time on the grandest stage of all, at the Rio Olympics in August.
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It isn't surprising therefore that intelligence executives – for example the Head of State Department's Intelligence Arm or the nominee to become the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office – recently argued that one of the community's grandest challenges is the quick and efficient integration of OSINT in its operations.
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A church member with a connection to Oprah Winfrey even arranged for the celebrity to send the women a video message (She wished them "the grandest and greatest" birthday.) Afterwards, the trio went outside for lunch and cake while guests formed a line to offer them birthday wishes.
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The New York-based artist, formerly of the band Antony and the Johnsons, has crafted a protest album that plays out like an assault on society's grandest ills: climate change, government surveillance, drone strikes, and genocide—and it's particularly interested in the places where all of the above intersect.
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For me the moment of truth came Wednesday evening in seeing British Prime Minister Theresa May blame her country's ongoing crisis on her own parliament, the House of Commons, not only one of the world's grandest deliberative bodies but also a group upon whom her continued leadership ultimately rests.
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To outsiders, it's remarkable that thousands of local parishes across Ukraine, including some of the country's grandest places of worship, have managed to remain at least loosely under Moscow's ecclesiastical jurisdiction, even as war raged between the Ukrainian army and rebels who enjoyed support in high Muscovite places.
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"There are few better ways right now to spend 80 movie minutes than to see 'Iris,' a delightful eye-opener about life, love, statement eyeglasses, bracelets the size of tricycle tires and the art of making the grandest of entrances," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.
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But even by Mr. Trump's extraordinary standards, the summit has supplied a singular test case, compelling voters to reckon with the consequences — for Mr. Trump, for the midterm elections, for American democracy — when a president agrees with a foreign adversary over his own intelligence agencies on the grandest stage.
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The shot that sealed Game 2 of the N.B.A. finals, after Iguodala had missed 13 of his last 14 attempts from 713-point range, is bound to go down as his biggest on the game's grandest stage, as long as Golden State wins this series against the Toronto Raptors.
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Rothschild Boulevard, arguably Tel Aviv's grandest thoroughfare and the heart of its business and start-up sectors, is just up the block, and a short walk will take you to both the bustling Carmel Market and the boutique- and gallery-lined cobblestone streets of the Neve Tzedek neighborhood.
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The exhibition is organized by theme, including Coronation Dress; Bess of Hardwick and the Tudor Influence; the Georgiana Effect; and Country Living and Entertaining at Chatsworth, though a standout moment for him may be a reimagining of the Devonshire House Ball, situated in the grandest staterooms in the house.
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Even though Hrithik Roshan appears in almost every frame and brings his natural screen presence to the film, he is a shadow of his normal self, bogged down by a weak script, terrible production values and a lack of vision from the man who once made some of Bollywood's grandest movies.
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The Knights, on the other hand, have ascended to the league's grandest stage with a coach dismissed by the Florida Panthers, a general manager that unceremoniously parted ways with the Washington Capitals and a roster consisting largely of players that were left unprotected in the expansion draft by their former teams.
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And yet there's something dispiriting about the idea that at one of the grandest public occasions orchestrated by the White House, and managed largely by the East Wing — one full of pomp and circumstance and staging — the costume of the leading lady should be hailed as successful because … it's pretty.
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The rise of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson - known as simply "Boris" - to pole position for leading the world's fifth largest economy, is the grandest twist so far in a career that has morphed from journalism via TV-show fame, comedy and scandal into the brinkmanship of Britain's Brexit crisis.
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"PM BORIS" The rise of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, often referred to as simply "Boris", to the top of British politics is the grandest twist so far in a career that has taken him from journalism via TV-show fame, comedy and scandal into the political brinkmanship of Britains Brexit crisis.
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From the very first scene of The Good Place, you're confronted with an idea that's at once hilarious and slyly subversive: The universe is the grandest bureaucracy of them all, and God (or whatever you want to call him) occasionally makes mistakes — big enough mistakes that sometimes, they're just too difficult to correct.
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For members of my family at least, these spring and summer hikes are a reminder that what shapes us is not so much the possessions we acquire but the memories we accumulate, that when you scrape away the veneer, what gives life meaning is not the grandest barbecue or the sportiest car.
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To find a Canadian coaching at hockey's top level is as common as snow in December at Krueger's boyhood Winnipeg home but for a hockey man through-and-through who had no particular interest in soccer while growing up, the prospect of hoisting one of Europe's grandest trophies would appear far-fetched.
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First was the weather and torrential downpour, as guests hopped on board the Dior Express, departing from London's Victoria station on a private train, replete with Dior porters, Dior china, and a resplendent lunch to Woodstock's Blenheim Palace, one of England's grandest stately buildings and the birthplace of former prime minister Winston Churchill.
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Seated at the wood-carved dais of the Ways and Means Committee room, the grandest meeting chamber in the House, lawmakers appeared to feel the weight of the occasion, refraining from some of the more raucous tactics that have marked the impeachment process so far in favor of passionate statements of principle.
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As he typed in an office on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot, he began to hear tales of the interaction between Irving Thalberg, a next-generation film executive seen as a "boy wonder" for his ability to meld art and commerce, and the grandest of studio grand pooh-bahs, Louis B. Mayer.
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The rise of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, cast by many as simply "Boris", to pole position for leading the world's fifth largest economy is the grandest twist so far in a career that has morphed from journalism via TV-show fame, comedy and scandal into the brinkmanship of Britain's Brexit crisis.
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Magnificent Coloring Day was also a corrective, perhaps, to what up until this day was the grandest music-related event to ever occur in the stadium that houses the Chicago White Sox: the 1979 disco demolition night that turned Comiskey Park, then the White Sox home, into a battleground of musical values and intolerance.
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Where the Bowie of the Spiders from Mars era came across as a confident master of ceremonies, eager to build up our anticipation for his next trick, this grandest reveal of all shows that underneath his artistic rigor, drive for innovation, and god-like status, he is more like us than we'd have ever known.
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The era before the 1966 season, when the N.F.L. and A.F.L. created a championship game between the leagues that became the greatest spectacle in American sports, was defined by strong defenses, running games and a group of star quarterbacks — Sammy Baugh, Otto Graham, Y.A. Tittle — who are discussed in the vaguest, yet grandest, of terms.
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Less than a year later George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan, followed by Iraq, and began some of the grandest, and least successful, American experiments in shaping other societies since the Marshall Plan after World War II. By the time of his second Inaugural Address, Bush was fully converted — he saw America as on a mission.
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Footsteps The monumental, imperial ambitions that once drove the transformation of Ostend — where the painter James Ensor was born, lived and worked his entire life — from a modest fishing port surrounded by dunes and marshes on the short, flat coast of Belgium into one of Europe's grandest seaside resorts, first become visible on its outskirts.
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But as a chaplain at big educational institutions, I've rarely felt comfortable being too critical of those institutions, the universities, which at least in my judgement have more power and influence (not to mention more money, though they don't really pay it to me) than even the oldest and grandest of churches and temples.
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"The Season began in Britain in the 17th century and became known as the highly anticipated annual period of time from April to August when British society would attend the grandest of balls, concerts, charity events, debutante balls, fabulous dinner parties and cocktail events, essentially to meet, greet and present eligible women to society," Meier tells PEOPLE.
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The grandest suites in the Trump Taj Mahal are named for and (loosely) styled after some of his favourite figures in world history: Napoleon, Kublai Khan and Alexander the Great, the last a roughly 4,000-square-foot penthouse suite resplendent with Ionic columns, crystal chandeliers, bronze lions, a baby grand piano and marbled Jacuzzis (three of them).
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" He punctuates his discussions with sweeping summaries like this one, in reference to social media: "The art of persuasion, once the grandest of the humanities and accessible at its highest level only to those of genius — a Demosthenes or a Cicero, a Lincoln or a Churchill — is acquiring many of the attributes of a computational science.
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Location: Marrakesh, MoroccoStarting rate per night: $1,2121,500 master craftsmen spent three years building the 53 three-story riads that make up this hotel that was commissioned by King Mohammed VI. While each has lavish amenities, the grandest one has a home cinema, personal bar and gym, a spa room, and could cost in the neighborhood of $40,000 per night.
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"I wanted to create a utopia where you can be whatever you want to be, without emphasis on masculinity or sexuality," Mr. Kamara said last week, as he put the finishing touches to the large-scale photographic prints of young African men in dresses now hanging from the walls of Somerset House, one of Britain's grandest palaces.
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I wish I had more time for Lego Worlds—there are so many things I'd like to build: cyberpunk cities, treehouse villages, working lunar bases staffed entirely by warrior women—but even if I never get to craft my grandest masterpieces, I'm very glad for the time I've spent in its cute, quirky, impressively detailed lands.
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A label once reserved for the grandest artistic undertakings and the most exalted creators, from God to da Vinci to the mother who birthed you, is now applied willy-nilly to such activities as scrapbooking and bicycle-frame building, to the person who pulled your morning latte or designed the logo for your calorie-counting app.
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" It was the grandest of missions: "What she wished to see, she thought, was the clash of interests, the interests of 40 millions of people and a whole continent, centering at Washington; guided, restrained, controlled, or unrestrained and uncontrollable, by men of ordinary mold; the tremendous forces of government, and the machinery of society, at work.
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It was perhaps the grandest night of the summer at the grand Salzburg Festival, the Davos of classical music, which is known for attracting not just leading artists but also impresarios, managers, agents, recording-industry honchos, television and streaming executives, and journalists (more than 600 this year) to this small, picturesque city on the edge of the Alps.
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VENICE — The top prize of the Venice Biennale, the world's oldest and grandest international exhibition of contemporary art, was awarded on Saturday to Anne Imhof, an artist and choreographer whose grim and threatening occupation of the German pavilion, complete with anti-riot wire fences and barking Doberman pinschers, was the talk of the art world last week.
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CNBC also reached out to Benchmark for comment: Let us take this pause in this moment, when we find ourselves swimming in the crucible of one of the grandest business and moral battles of our generation, and find strength in each stroke of our proverbial digital pens, that we wrote with the indelible, eternal and permanent ink of righteousness.
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He graduated from the middle-class neighborhood of his childhood to Achrafieh, Beirut's grandest community, where he kept an immaculate pink villa — which, an internal Nissan investigation found, a company subsidiary had bought for $8.75 million and renovated for a further $6 million, one of several properties around the world the subsidiary had paid for Mr. Ghosn to use.
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But when the drama is real, it's incomparably sweeter—both because scarcity and intermittent reinforcement set the animalistic depths of our collective psyche aflame, and because even, say, Kevin Costner in "Bull Durham" or "Field of Dreams" could not fully capture the spectacle of the world's most physically imposing specimens experiencing childlike joy and despair on the grandest possible stage.
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A few minutes after his team had staged its staggering, last-gasp comeback to beat Ajax and seal a place in its first European Cup final, Pochettino had sat down in front of the assembled news media and announced — entirely unexpectedly — that if Spurs won club soccer's grandest prize, he would consider walking away, a man with no worlds left to conquer.
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She blamed James ComeyJames Brien ComeySaagar Enjeti warns 28500 Democrats against embracing Hillary Clinton Trump told Russian officials in 6900 he was unconcerned about Moscow's election interference: report Trump's Ukraine transcript: Unwise words but no proof of a crime MORE, Russia, the Media, everyone but herself and the morons that she hired for her embarrassing loss on the grandest stage.
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Del Posto is, with the possible exception of Aquavit, the grandest and most expensive restaurant in New York where women are in charge of everything you eat, starting with the miniature saffron waffle rolled like a cannoli and stuffed at one tiny end with taleggio and at the other with fennel pesto, and ending with the prosecco marshmallow tucked into the wooden drawer of a custom-made cheese grater.
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The visions laid out in this book of the glory days of the Orient Express, the grandest and most local cuisine-oriented of the trains surveyed here, or of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, on which bearers would telegraph orders to a railway kitchen down the line for hot delivery at the next stop, make my celebrations over the appearance of a new snack packet in the Amtrak cafe car seem particularly paltry.
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Scully's 22 paintings, sculptures and numerous works on paper occupy one of Venice's grandest churches, San Giorgio Maggiore, designed by Andrea Palladio, on its eponymous island south of the city, while Brooklyn Rail is in Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Penitenti, an out of the way, deconsecrated church near the far edge of Cannaregio, north of the Grand Canal and just east of the train station, a small 17th-century building decorated with several minor 18th-century paintings.
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