The relative lavishness of the Palwan camp is atypical, however.
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To watch Salomé is to absorb a wondrous mix of contradictions, lavishness, and excess.
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Elements like light dimmers and glass-beaded wallpaper echo the rest of the building's lavishness.
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Picture, in your head, the depth and lavishness of Kanye West's vault of unreleased music.
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Compared to the lavishness of many festivals across the world, nothing about Envision felt particularly easy.
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Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra's extravagant Indian wedding rivaled Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's in hype and lavishness.
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That said, the reality is that most us don't have the cash flow to keep up with such lavishness.
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Though the Church has traded much of its nineteenth-century lavishness for something less concrete, the hypocrisy is unchanged.
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By now, you'd think people would just come to expect a certain level of absurd lavishness from the Kardashian family.
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But, with prices for everything from coal to copper decimated in recent years as China's economy slows, such lavishness has disappeared.
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"It has the lavishness of the royal family and the strict enforcement of a mafia type of family," he told me.
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He builds a delicious tension between the paucity of events and the lavishness of the technique with which they are described.
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Though the martyr in question is unknown, Storchan said the lavishness of the complex may indicate this person was an important figure.
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Some of them, indeed, rival the major museums in the breadth and sophistication of their displays, and the lavishness of their catalogues.
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Nef announced the gala's end, but that the party would continue at the Boom Boom Room, as if there wasn't enough lavishness already.
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Her problem is that when the man who was financing all that lavishness — her mother's boyfriend — suddenly stopped paying, she didn't stop spending.
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There was a moment of incongruity when it turned out that, in the middle of all this lavishness, we couldn't open the curtains.
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Combine that with the fact that Dubai is known for its hospitality and general lavishness, and I had high hopes for the lounge.
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They encompass loss, violence, the passage of time, the rise and fall of civilizations, the lavishness of ritual yet they're also funny, indulgent and outrageous.
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I have no memories of such lavishness at the store in the 216s, although 240-year-old me is still mad that she missed Madonna.
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But all in all, "Items" has few of the showstopping moments of extreme craftsmanship, innovation or material lavishness that are a staple of the Met's productions.
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It's not about lavishness, it's just about the notion that there are genuinely good people out there and we want to be able to support these families.
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A handy sum, but one whose lavishness has fallen as cautious investing has failed to increase the pot as fast as economic growth has increased people's incomes.
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The lavishness turns quickly into horror — Godwin gives us buckets of blood unasked for in the original — and then into a presentiment of Lear on the heath.
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Godwin, the new artistic director of the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, establishes all this in a few confident gestures that unavoidably keep repeating, as lavishness tends to do.
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On the up side of all of this lavishness, the wedding is estimated to bring in $680 million from the tourism opportunities associated with the royal wedding madness. 98.
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But recent presidential trips have made headlines not for the lavishness of the reception but for the perceived "snubs" that have met the president and vice president upon arrival.
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Mr. Bongo has tried to distance himself from the lavishness that was a hallmark of his father, whose tenure was best known for enriching himself and the loyal elite.
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Designed to dwarf Dubai both in size and lavishness, the new metropolis is planned as an international business and tourism hub with fewer rules than the rest of Saudi Arabia.
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The piece also took nasty potshots at the length and lavishness of the celebrations, believing that they were a Chopra special rather than the usual traditional stuff that they were.
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This season she elevated it to a place somehow both deeper and more natural as she cut through the excess — even her own lavishness — to show more power and delicacy.
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The emphasis shifted from the wealth of the Bachelor or Bachelorette to the lavishness of the dates the show sent them on, which disproportionately feature international travel and helicopter rides.
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The World Economic Forum has in the past drawn scorn from anti-globalization groups as a symbol of lavishness and elitism, and at times attendees have tried to be less conspicuous.
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The lavishness of her look suggests that she's the queen of the group (as if we didn't already know that…), but a different kind of queen than the one pictured behind her.
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This lavishness has been assembled by John T. Carpenter, the Met's Japanese art curator and Melissa McCormick professor of Japanese art and culture at Harvard University, with Monika Bincsik and Kyoko Kinoshita.
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The Clippers take on the air of a morality play, their fumbling trajectory, compared with those of the NBA elite, a warning about the pitfalls of lavishness in the face of upright austerity.
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Most of the assembled celebs are aware that the couture-and-caviar lavishness represented by awards season is emblematic of the worst sort of inequality and waste plaguing the world, and thus seems quite tacky.
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The wall text as you walk into David Hockney: Drawing From Life at the National Portrait Gallery tells the story with customary warmth and hyperbolic lavishness: unique vision…master draughtsman…dear and intimate circle of friends…generously sharing.
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Only in 1682 had the King's court been relocated to Versailles; a century later, this monarchy would topple in the French Revolution, the lavishness of the isolated estate helping to flame the fury against the then King Louis XVI.
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"Everybody's looking at what everybody else is doing," said Jonathan Miller, the president of Miller Samuel Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants, comparing the phenomenon to the so-called amenities war in which projects try to match one another in the number and lavishness of common spaces.
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The performance of the cast (justice for Park so-Dam's "Jessica from Illinois"!!!), Bong's meticulous and absolutely intricate camera work and composition, the themes of inequality and lavishness peppered into such a complex plot all work to make that twist crackle and split the film open.
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Czerniecki's cooking style, as presented in his book, is characterized by aristocratic lavishness, Baroque pageantry and fiery combinations of contrasting flavours. When it comes to spending, the author cautions against both waste and unnecessary thrift. A banquet was meant to overwhelm the guests with lavishness and flaunt the host's wealth and munificence. Abundant use of expensive spices was one way to accomplish this.
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She greatly enjoyed the splendour of court and the lavishness of high society, which was very different from the austerity preferred by her mother.
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An impoverished man rises from rags to riches by becoming a veena vidwan, but almost loses it in the lap of a danseuse and the lavishness of liquor.
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Pets are often treated as if they are truly members of the family (Regenstein 1991, p. 223-224). There are some exceptions to ahimsa in Hinduism - mainly dealing with religious rituals to please gods on special occasions and for daily sustenance. While Hindu belief proscribes the slaughter for human pleasure or lavishness , animal sacrifice has been an accepted ritual in some parts of India (Regenstein 1991, p. 225).An example of such lavishness would be hunting for pleasure, a fur coat made from animal skin, etc.
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Bernardino António Gomes, the King's personal physician, wrote that "the Bemposta Hospital has the elegance not of lavishness, but of simplicity and harmony" and that "its magnificence is not that of luxury and sumptuosity, but that of hygiene".
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The most obvious deviation is the darker, more subdued color. Much of the brilliant blue has been substituted with a drab brown. Toning down the Mannerist lavishness of the original is consistent with the sobriety of the Counter-Reformation and may reflect Eleonora's sensibilities.
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Mitter earned fabulous amounts of money. He was so powerful that his boss Holwell could not remove him. He is credited by some as being the first Bengali to drive a coach. His celebration of the Hindu festivals was marked with lavishness and extravagance.
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The increasing lavishness of castles led to the introduction of turret clocks.Bottomley, p. 34 A 1435 example survives from Leeds castle; its face is decorated with the images of the Crucifixion of Jesus, Mary and St George. Early clock dials showed hours: the display of minutes and seconds evolved later.
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This is a super-spectacle in all its meaning.""Film Reviews: Quo Vadis". Variety. November 14, 1951. 6. Edwin Schallert of the Los Angeles Times declared it "one of the most tremendous if not the greatest pictures ever made ... Its pictorial lavishness has never been equaled in any other production.
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At the time of the building's construction, banks focused on marketing their services, where previously they had focused on security. 510 Fifth Avenue was accordingly described by the Architectural Forum as an example of "a dynamic new kind of prestige design for large financial institutions", through the "lavishness" of its architecture.
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Melodrama is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions. Trevor Blount comments on the fascination that Dickens has always exercised on the public. He mentions the lavishness, energy, vividness, brilliance, and tenderness of Dickens's writing, along with the range of his imagination. Blount also refers to Dickens's humour, and his use of the macabre and of pathos.
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The Winchester Hoard (Iron Age) may have been a diplomatic gift. A diplomatic gift is a gift given by a :diplomat, politician or leader when visiting a foreign country. Usually the gift is reciprocated by the host. The use of diplomatic gifts dates back to the ancient world and givers have competed to outdo each other in the lavishness of their gifts.
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114–115 Auschnitt was released at Cairo, but his "lavishness with money" remained a point of contention for the remainder of his stay.Deletant, p. 115 On July 5, a military court of the Third Romanian Army issued warrants for all fugitives. Auschnitt was charged with defection to the enemy and instigating desertion."Anunțuri judiciare", in Monitorul Oficial, July 8, 1944, p.
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Lucullan describes things related to or created by people named Lucullus, most notably Lucullus (Lucius Licinius Lucullus, 118 BC–57/56 BC), Optimate politician of the late Roman Republic, consul (74 BC) and a general in the Third Mithridatic War. Due to the amount of treasure he returned to Rome, "Lucullan" is sometimes used as an adjective to signify lavishness.
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People in various cities and towns across the North contributed to the same war effort because they identified as having shared fortunes in their common nation.Lawson, Melinda. Patriot Fires: Forging a New American Nationalism in the Civil War North, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2002. The USSC leadership sometimes did not approve of the excitement and lavishness of the fairs.
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The cemetery marked as the Jews' Burial Ground (Disused) on an 1870s Ordnance Survey map when Brady Street was known as North Street The cemetery is in size and is surrounded by a wall topped with broken glass. The London: East edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides describes the cemetery as "crowded with mainly later Victorian monuments" and highlights Miriam Levy's monument for its "considerable lavishness".
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These are among the best surviving Byzantine garments and give a good idea of the lavishness of Imperial ceremonial clothing. There is a cloak (worn by the Emperors with the gap at the front), "alb", dalmatic, stockings, slippers and gloves. The loros is Italian and later. Each element of the design on the cloak (see Textiles below) is outlined in pearls and embroidered in gold.
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The response came in two forms: didactic literature warning of the dangers of adapting a diet inappropriate for one's class,Melitta Weiss Adamson, "Medieval Germany" in Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe, pp. 155–59. and sumptuary laws that put a cap on the lavishness of commoners' banquets.Melitta Weiss Adamson, "Medieval Germany" in Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe, pp. 160–59; Scully (1995), p. 117.
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The British delegation led by Churchill and Cardogan was met by Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and Chief of Staff, Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov. Upon arrival Churchill and American representative Averell Harriman inspected an honour guard. Churchill then addressed the assembly saying, State Villa No. 7 was allocated to Churchill while Harriman stayed at the US Embassy. Of the villa, Churchill wrote, 'Everything was prepared with totalitarian lavishness'.
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Pascal was given a third opportunity to film Shaw's work with Caesar and Cleopatra (1945). It cost three times its original budget and was rated "the biggest financial failure in the history of British cinema". The film was poorly received by British critics, although American reviews were friendlier. Shaw thought its lavishness nullified the drama, and he considered the film "a poor imitation of Cecil B. de Mille".
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James Gillray's satirical print Temperance Enjoying a Frugal Meal. George III is depicted with patched trousers and a chair covered with protective fabric, eating a simple boiled egg and using the tablecloth as his napkin. Winter flowers fill the unlit fireplace. Frugality is the quality of being frugal, sparing, thrifty, prudent or economical in the consumption of consumable resources such as food, time or money, and avoiding waste, lavishness or extravagance.
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In 1890 two volumes of Fet's My Memories: 1848–1889 were published. Another book, My Early Years, came out posthumously, in 1893. On 28 January 1892 at the Moscow Hermitage restaurant the grandiose event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Fet's literary career was held. He seemed pleased with the lavishness of it, but later in the poem On My Muse's 50th Birthday referred to the celebration as a 'requiem'.
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The fourth movement is a bass recitative with chordal strings. The section closes with a four-part setting of the chorale tune with varied phrase lengths. The second section opens with a bass aria that "has a lavishness of sound which is almost unparalleled". A two-part secco soprano recitative leads to an aria that was for bass in BWV 197.1 but in BWV 197.2 is scored for soprano.
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But the FBI rejected this view, instead advocating a structure which was bomb-proof on the first few stories and which had but a few, tightly secured access points elsewhere. Murphy and Associates initially designed a monumental building. This approach was rejected by GSA for wasting space and because it would draw criticism for its apparent misuse of taxpayer dollars on lavishness. Murphy and Associates next designed a "Chicago school" structure.
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Robin Rhode, "the candle" Reminiscent of practices of street art, Rhode usually works in public spaces, using walls, public basketball courts or just the street as his "canvas." His preferred materials are easily accessible ones like charcoal and paint. As a result, his works stand out through their simplicity and their formal clarity, emphasizing the idea over lavishness of production. Rhode transforms simple shapes into elements of narratives, interacting with only imagined presences.
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The Devonshire House Ball or the Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball was an elaborate fancy dress ball, hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, held on 2 July 1897 at Devonshire House in Piccadilly to celebrate Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Due to the many prominent royals, aristocrats, and society figures who attended as well as the overall lavishness of the ball, it was considered the event of the 1897 London Season.
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Towns which suffered severely were Ragusa, Modica, Scicli, and Ispica. Rebuilding began almost immediately. The lavishness of the architecture that was to arise from this disaster is connected with the politics of Sicily at the time: Sicily was still officially under Spanish rule, but rule was effectively delegated to the native aristocracy. This was led by the Duke of Camastra, whom the Spanish had appointed viceroy to appease the aristocracy, who were numerous.
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Elizaveta Petrovna in Tsarskoe Selo (1905), painting by Eugene Lanceray, now in the Tretyakov Gallery. Departure of Elizabeth from Anichkov Palace. Elizabeth's court was one of the most splendid in all Europe. As historian Mikhail Shcherbatov stated, the court was "arrayed in cloth of gold, her nobles satisfied with only the most luxurious garments, the most expensive foods, the rarest drinks, that largest number of servants and they applied this standard of lavishness to their dress as well".
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Simultaneously with Primate Creagh, he was confined until released after about three years and seven months on the security of Cormac MacCarthy, Lord of Muskery. He intended to retire to Flanders, but ill health contracted in prison induced him to return to Ireland. He was apprehended at Dublin, but released on exhibiting his discharge, and proceeded to Muskery under MacCarthy's protection. Disliking the lavishness of that nobleman's house, he withdrew to a small farm and lived austerely.
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It seems that the importance of this religious festival helped maintain the status of the city throughout the Roman period. It is even said that the emperor Titus visited the Temple of Aphrodite at Paphos on his way to Syria. Once there, Titus was awed by the lavishness of the sanctuary and inquired as to his future endeavors as emperor. The high priest and the goddess Aphrodite herself, supposedly, confirmed the ruler's favorable future and successful journey to Syria.
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During the feast, the Muslim chief offered his only daughter to Datu Tayaotao to be his wife, as reward and bond, to strengthen the relation of the two tribes. The wedding took place at Datu Tayaotao’s enclave, followed by a three-day feast. The Muslim Datu, overwhelmed by the gaiety and lavishness of the celebration, proclaimed and called Datu Tayaotao as Datu Kitaotao, the chief of the land of wealth. After his death, the locality was named after Datu Kitaotao.
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In early 1539, Ghent threw a lavish rhetorician festival. The lavishness of the festival infuriated Charles' officials because Ghent claimed it couldn't afford to pay its taxes. In July 1539, rumors spread that certain aldermen had tampered with documents in the city's archives that legitimized Ghent's autonomy. In particular, the guilds were upset over the supposed theft of the Purchase of Flanders, a legendary document from a previous Flemish count which purportedly gave Ghent the right to reject all taxation.
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Page from the psalter The Queen Mary Psalter (British Library, Royal MS 2 B.vii) is a fourteenth-century English psalter named after Mary I of England, who gained possession of it in 1553.Davenport 56-57. The psalter is noted for its beauty and the lavishness of its illustration, and has been called "one of the most extensively illustrated psalters ever produced in Western Europe" and "one of the choicest treasures of the magnificent collection of illuminated MSS. in the British Museum".
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A typical live action movie of the era had a standardised budget of 350,000 roubles. As a special case, the team of Viimne reliikvia managed to haggle themselves a budget of 750,000 roubles — more than double the customary. This lavishness paid off very well, as within the very first year, 772,000 tickets were sold in Estonia only. (Remarkably, Estonia's population at that time was around 1,300,000.) The movie set the absolute box office record for the entire Soviet Union in 1971 by selling 44.9 million tickets.
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Remi is dressed in English-style clothing and is taunted by some girls for it. Also, the scale, lavishness, and attention that the wedding of one of her family members receives indicates just how wealthy her family is and the high-profile this wealth affords them. When six-year-old Remi makes the trip from Nigeria to England she stays with some relatives of her step-grandmother, Bigmama. Remi immediately notices that they do not have servants and the woman of the house does the housework herself.
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In 1938, after graduating, Patience travelled with her sister Tania to Eastern Europe under a grant from the Quakers, who wanted to promote friendships with the Romanians. The sisters were there when Queen Marie, a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, died in July. The lavishness of the funeral rites prompted Patience to write her first piece of journalism, which appeared in a Bucharest paper. Its editor became infatuated by Patience, filling her hotel room with bunches of tuberose, whose scent, she said, always filled her with remembered horror.
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The 14th-century traveler Ibn Batutah wrote of the lavishness of the transportation convoys Taynal used in Tripoli. He resided in a mansion known as Dar al-Saadah (Abode of Felicity). Taynal had a house for himself built on the site of an "old Fatimid hospital," as noted by Ibn Batutah, near the al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo and also maintained a residence in Damascus, which later became a religious school known as "Madrasah Taynaliyya." When Tankiz was deposed in 1340, Taynal was stripped of his governorship, but was reappointed in 1341.
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Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova (; 2 September 1861 - 24 November 1939)Variously transliterated from Russian as Yussupov, Yossopov, Iusupov, Youssoupov, Youssoupoff was an Imperial Russian noblewoman, the only heiress of Russia's largest private fortune of her time. Famed for her beauty and the lavishness of her hospitality, she was a leading figure in pre-Revolutionary Russian society. In 1882, she married Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston, who served briefly as General Governor of Moscow (1914–1915). Zinaida is best known as the mother of Prince Felix Yusupov, the murderer of Rasputin.
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Originally used only for royal ceremonies and extraordinary performances,Gousset and Masson pp. 59 this pinnacle of the Gabriel family's work began to be used less and less because of the immense cost to stage productions there. During the period of its usage, however, it was a beautiful example of royal lavishness and love for theatrical performances, and the fact that attending opera was once again the fashionable thing to do for the upper class, thanks in part to Queen Marie Antoinette's patronage, should not be underestimated.Boyd pp.
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He completed his studies at Uppsala University and then visited most of the European states, which laid the foundation for his deep insight into international politics which afterwards distinguished him. On his return home he met King Charles X in the Danish islands and was in close attendance upon him till the monarch's death in 1660. He began his political career at the diet which assembled in the autumn of the same year. An aristocrat by birth, he nevertheless belonged to a family which had not benefitted from the lavishness of recent regimes.
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The two storied Telangana CMO building is the Official Secretariat of the Chief Minister of Telangana. Earlier, the CMO known as the CM Peshi was located on the 6th floor of C Block in the Telangana Secretariat was facing space crunch.KCR's new 50 crore home: Telangana CM lavishness with taxpayer's money Pragathi Bhavan is the heart of state administration.Telangana: Camp office eclipses glory of Secretariat The CMO has a mini conference hall, a hall for video conferences and has hotline connections to all main offices in every mandal headquarters.
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Kern, Bolton, and Wodehouse had collaborated on a number of musical comedies at the Princess Theatre. The story combined the innocence of these earlier "Princess musicals" with the lavishness of the "Ziegfeld Follies" formula. The score recycles some material from previous Kern shows, including "Look for the Silver Lining" and "Whip-poor-will" (with lyrics by De Sylva, from the flop "Zip Goes a Million"); "The Lorelei" (lyrics by Anne Caldwell); and "You Can't Keep a Good Girl Down" and "The Church 'Round the Corner" (lyrics by Wodehouse). Grey supplied the lyrics for the few new songs in the score.
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Some sources regard her as the real ruler of the later part of the Tulip era. She was said to have assisted the Marquis de Villeneuve, French ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1728–1741, in favour of an Ottoman policy benefitting to French interests during the Russo-Austrian-Turkish War (1735–1739). She has been referred to as the last de facto female ruler of the Ottoman Empire. The couple spent several happy and affluent years during the notorious for its splendidness and lavishness Tulip Age (Lâle Devri) which became the symbol of the reign of Sultan Ahmed III.
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When he returned to London in late April 1968, according to Apple executive Derek Taylor, Harrison "reacted with real horror" at the lavishness of Apple's campaign. Reflecting the idealism behind the company, Apple Corps had taken out print advertisements inviting any budding artist to submit their creative ideas. The London offices were inundated with submissions, almost all of which were ignored, along with crowds of eccentrics responding to the Beatles' invitation. In "Not Guilty", the line "I won't upset the Apple cart" was a deliberate reference to the company, while "making friends with every Sikh" referred to activities with the Maharishi.
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Megullia is one of the one hundred and six subjects of Giovanni Boccaccio’s On Famous Women (De mulieribus claris, 1362).Boccaccio, Giovanni, Famous Women, translated by Virginia Brown (Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press, 2001) pp. 109-110 () She is famous (as Boccaccio says) "more through the lavishness of her ancestors than through the worthiness of any of her own deeds. For at that time it seemed such a marvellous thing to give 50,000 bronze coins as dowry to one's husband..."Boccaccio, Giovanni, Concerning Famous Women, translated by Guido A. Guarino (New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1963) pp.
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Ultimately, he and many of his contemporary architects were eclipsed by the designs of Robert Adam. Adam remodelled Brettingham's York House in 1780 and, in addition to Kedleston Hall, went on to replace James Paine as architect at Nostell Priory, Alnwick Castle, and Syon House. In spite of this, Adam and Paine remained great friends; Brettingham's relationships with his fellow architects are unrecorded. Brettingham's principal contribution to architecture is perhaps the design of the grand town house, unremarkable for its exterior but with a circulating plan for reception rooms suitable for entertaining within on a forgotten scale of lavishness.
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Due to the touristic approach of many Dubaites in the entrepreneurial sector and the high standard of living, Dubai's culture has gradually evolved towards one of luxury, opulence, and lavishness with high regard for leisure-related extravagance.Luxury Fashion Branding: Trends, Tactics, Techniques - Page 80, Uché Okonkwo - 2007Dubai - Page 100, Terry Carter - 2009Introduction to Sociology - Page 14, George Ritzer - 2012 A combination of local prosperity and visions of a Dubaian tourist Mecca by successive Dubaian rulers have resulted in numerous forms of infrastructure that caters to self-indulgence, coziness, and a pleasurable sense of living the high-life.
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Les Misérables, today, has received widespread critical acclaim, and audiences have often cited it as one of the greatest musicals ever made.Guardian 2013“Readers’ Poll: The 10 Best Musicals of All Time” The Rolling StonesBroadway World However, this was not always the case. Initially, critical reviews for Les Misérables were predominately negative. At the opening of the London production, The Sunday Telegraphs Francis King described the musical as "a lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness" and Michael Ratcliffe of The Observer considered the show "a witless and synthetic entertainment", while literary scholars condemned the project for converting classic literature into a musical.
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1278-98 is here preferred to BM's 1277-1286, see below. A miscellany is a manuscript containing texts of different types and by different authors, and this volume contains a wide range of Hebrew language texts, mostly religious but many secular. The manuscript is exceptional among medieval Hebrew manuscripts both for its size and the diversity of the texts and the quality and lavishness of its illuminations, which as was often the case were added by Christian specialists.Tahan, 10-11; BM This manuscript was digitized by the British Library's Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project and is available online.
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The New York Times review of the premiere of Princess Flavia described the show as "beautiful, tuneful, majestic and splendid in all its appointments." > Last night's audience, a gathering of habitual theatregoers who have known > the splendors of The Student Prince and Rose-Marie and The Love Song during > recent months, was forced to pay homage repeatedly throughout the evening to > the even greater lavishness … and the stirring choruses evoked prolonged > ovations at the end of each act. Particular praise was accorded the performances of Welchman, Herbert, Dumbrille and the large chorus, as well as the sets by Watson Barratt.
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Although in terms of the technical characteristics the Kaiser Friedrich was inferior to the , in terms of interior design and lavishness she was a lot more sophisticated, with a harmonious blend of high quality and good taste. All the 180 first-class and 111 second-class cabins were placed on higher decks, offering their occupants remarkable views. Some of the first-class cabins were also convertible into large seating areas. In addition to the 420 crew, the ship could accommodate 1,350 passengers out of which 400 in first class, 250 in second and 700 passengers in third-class.
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Construction work began in August 2016 but was abandoned in the first week of December after the Sri Lankan Catholic Church criticised it as "waste of money", and added "Construction work should be abandoned. Christmas is an occasion for sharing funds with the needy, not to waste money on lavishness... The market economy is using religion as a tool for selling Christmas." Later, work on the tree recommenced after a meeting with Catholic Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo. Originally the tree was planned to be tall but the height had to be reduced to due to the delays in construction.
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The genre often explores the essential themes related to economics such as money, wealth, materialism, greed, profiteering, power, corporatism, economic inequality, corporate criticism, anti-corporate activism, corporate corruption, and dishonesty. The genre is also characterized by references to famous real life and fictional businesspeople such as William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane), Howard Hughes (The Aviator), and Gordon Gekko (Wall Street). Though economic films are socially conscious and focused on many aspects related to the business world, many other films are focused on extreme wealth, lavishness, self-indulgence, materialistic, and luxurious subject matter such as having braggadocios about high-end luxury goods, cars, wine, houses, and expensive champagne.
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Prior to 2006, the weekend was Thursday-Friday. Because of the touristic approach of many Dubaites in the entrepreneurial sector and the high standard of living, Dubai's culture has gradually evolved towards one of luxury, opulence, and lavishness with a high regard for leisure-related extravagance.Luxury Fashion Branding: Trends, Tactics, Techniques – Page 80, Uché Okonkwo – 2007Dubai – Page 100, Terry Carter – 2009Introduction to Sociology – Page 14, George Ritzer – 2012 Annual entertainment events such as the Dubai Shopping FestivalDubai Shopping Festival 2011 More Details (DSF) and Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) attract over 4 million visitors from across the region and generate revenues in excess of $2.7 billion.DSF Milestones .
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Ornately designed yet highly functional, the helmet was probably intended for both parades and battle. Its delicate covering is too fragile to have been put to use during cavalry tournaments, but the thick iron core would have defended against blows and arrows. Narrow slits for the eyes, with three small holes underneath to allow downward sight, sacrificed vision for protection; roughly cut notches below each eye suggest a hastily made modification of necessity. The helmet was found in a tomb near a monument to a former ruler of Emesa and, considering the lavishness of the silver and gold design, likely belonged to a member of the elite.
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A ball in honor of the new Spanish Gonvernor-General of the Philippines, Fernando Miguel Bustamante is in progress. The guests assembled have come to the palace to offer gifts of welcome. To their consternation, he responds to their chorus of "Viva El Rey, Viva España, Viva El Governador Bustamante" with a harangue against lavishness and ostentation as well as bribery which he says could only lead to corruption. He reminds the people of the glory that is Spain and tells them to keep the trust of King Felipe V. The entrance of Fray Totanes posturing elicit sarcastic remarks from the governor causing embarrassment to the governor's wife, Luisa.
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A critic in the New York Herald Tribune wrote, "Since some kind of story was needed to lead up to the film debut of "The International Ice Follies," and top-flight players to give it the necessary publicity gloss, Joan Crawford, James Stewart, and Lew Ayres were given the unenviable job of trying to make it digestible. Their acting is smart and likable; their material is not....Miss Crawford should avoid this type of film in the future, when she has to buck poor material, a group of specialists and Metro's own lavishness.""The Ice Follies of 1939". The Best of Everything: A Joan Crawford Biography.
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The similar form which developed in France at the same time was called the intermède; it was more reliant on dance than the Italian version. The French court under Catherine de' Medici was also staging court festivities of increasing lavishness – Catherine's granddaughter was the Medici bride in 1589. The masque in England also had many similarities to the intermedio, although it did not originate as a "filler" between acts in a play in the same way. The later 18th century intermezzo in opera showed a reversal of the Renaissance scheme; now a single short comic intermezzo was inserted between the acts of a heroic opera seria.
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The generous personality of Refia Sultan was more apparent on special occasions such as festivals. During the Eid-al-Adha, she gave rams and sheep to some relatives, servants. The help and generosity of Refia Sultan attracted a great deal of attention. As a matter of fact, due to her aid to the soldiers who were injured in the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78) and to the Muslim immigrants who had to leave their homes after the war. She was awarded with the “Order of Compassion” by her half-brother Abdul Hamid II. In addition to all this benevolence and generosity, Refia Sultan also appears with her lavishness.
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The miniatures on pages 144, 146, 160, 162, 164 and 172 It is highly likely that Pedro the Ceremonious insisted on Ferrer Bassa completing this spectacular psalter for him whilst respecting its sumptuous lavishness. Modern-day researchers have found many clues linking its completion to the king himself. The seven paintings drawn by the Canterbury masters and painted by Ferrer Bassa a century later are the result of a truly unique combination of the Anglo-Byzantine culture close to the 1200 and the pictorial forms of the 1300 Italianate Gothic. They constitute a remarkable fusion of cultures, a hybrid art in which no boundaries of space, time or culture exist.
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Paola Gambara Costa (3 March 1463 - 24 January 1515) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. She was born to nobles and married in 1475 to the nobleman Lodovico Antonio Costa - and had one child - who soon acquired a mistress and chastised her for her generous nature towards the poor and ill. Her husband later repented and died leaving her widowed and she died not long after this. Gambara desired to become a nun but complied with the desire of her parents to embrace marriage and so dedicated herself to serving her husband while at the same time learning to detest his excessive lavishness and the pomp of his noble court.
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The opera's first, ornate production, costing 150,000 francs, was conducted by François Habeneck. The performances of the soprano Cornélie Falcon in the title role and the dramatic tenor Adolphe Nourrit as Eléazar were particularly noted. Nourrit had significant influence on the opera: Eléazar, originally conceived as a bass part, was rewritten for him, and it appears that it was largely his idea to end act 4 not with a traditional ensemble, but with the aria "Rachel, quand du seigneur" for which he may also have suggested the text. The production was notable for its lavishness, including the on-stage organ in Act I, the enormous supporting cast, and the unprecedentedly elaborate decor.
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Zennie directed many of the Middle East's first Hip Hop music videos starting in 2008; several of them reached #1 on MTV Arabia’s International Express Chart. In 2011 he crossed over to the Desi market directing a music video for up and coming Indian rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh. The video for the song Brown Rang showcased the lavishness of Dubai with Zennie’s creative vision, styling, and marketing experience in artist branding being instrumental in the success of the video. After the tremendous success of Brown Rang, Zennie was asked to direct the music video for the song Long Drive for the feature film Khiladi 786 starring Bollywood action superstar Akshay Kumar and Asin Thottumkal.
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In the case of the Dingle Church, the stones that set its foundation came from the mountains of Bulabog Putian National Park, a network of caves and tunnels which eventually historically served as a hide-out of Visayan revolutionaries of the Katipunan. The Dingle Church is a classic example of Baroque architecture, characterized by its broad facade, simplistic niche and its sturdy, triangular-shaped pediment. Though it lacks the opulent lavishness of most churches, it is infused with the Neoclassical elaborate style of volute shaping the upper facade. Unlike the baroque churches of Ilocos, the pediment of Dingle Church is attached to the church itself but is heavily fortified by pilasters and multi-faceted columns.
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Sara began to be much more materialistic and scheming, and persistently fights for her rights as the "legal daughter" of Antonio (Allen Dizon). This later started a hefty and exasperating rivalry between Sara and Lucille (Carmina Villarroel). Sara started to covet for highly luxurious properties, desiring to outclass Kara for all the lavishness she used to have, and even induced Antonio to buy her own house to make up for all those years she suffered in scarcity. After the struggles that Kara has faced, every pieces of their family's secrets are finally discovered by Lucille who had known nothing about her family's well-kept secrets because of Sara's intentional declaration and evil schemes.
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On 21 August 2019, al-Faki became one of the civilian members of the joint civilian–military transitionary head of state of Sudan called the Sovereignty Council of Sudan. Al-Faki frequently acted as the Sovereignty Council's spokesperson. A week after the formal transfer of power from the Transitional Military Council to the Sovereignty Council, al-Faki commented on a controversy regarding facilities to be provided to the Sovereignty Council members. According to Asharq Al-Awsat, rumours circulated that council members "received Infiniti luxury cars and were offered by the presidential palace authorities to move to first-class hotels until their presidential residences were equipped", which was considered by Sudanese citizens to represent the lavishness of the Omar al-Bashir government.
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Edward R. Ware came to Athens in 1829 and was one of Athens' most prominent physicians practicing during the antebellum, Civil War, and post-Civil War periods. The house was the site of many parties; William Hope Hull (founder of University of Georgia's law school in 1859) described Mrs. Edward R. Ware as "full of life, loving the company of old and young, rich and poor, hospitable to lavishness, never too sick to go to a 'party,' and never too tired to give one…that youthful vivacity and unfeigned cordiality, which added to the other attraction of her elegant home [today the Lyndon House, a city-owned art center] made it one of the centers of social life in Athens."Thomas, Frances Taliaferro.
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Luigi Maria Palazzolo was born in Bergamo on 10 December 1827 as the last of eight brothers to Octavius Palazzolo and Theresa Antoine. He had a childhood of lavishness in the sense that his parents could provide for their children to a manageable degree and owned land and houses across Bergamo and in San Pellegrino Terme where his father hailed from. During this time Palazzolo's brothers died and his father died on 8 August 1837. Due to his naïve disposition as a child and his wit he was often dubbed "Palazzolino" during his life. Palazzolo commenced his studies for the priesthood in 1844 and on 23 June 1850 he was ordained to the priesthood under the Bishop of Bergamo Gritti Morlacchi.
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The reasons for his resignation from Enron remain shrouded in mystery. Despite a reputation for being extremely introverted, taciturn, and reclusive around the office, Pai also came to symbolize the legendary lavishness and excesses of Enron's corporate culture. Though married, Pai was known to spend inordinate amounts of time during and after working hours in Houston-area strip clubs, use the Enron corporate jet for personal commuting, and charge several hundred dollars worth of lunches for himself and accompanying staff to the corporate expense account until Chairman Ken Lay later prohibited it. Between May 18 and June 7, 2001, Pai sold 338,897 shares of Enron stock and exercised Enron stock options that put another 572,818 shares on the open market.
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The Obelisk, carved in France by an unknown sculptor out of an igneous rock similar to granite for the London 1862 International Exhibition, was purchased that November by John Paterson, founder of the oldest English- language newspaper in South Africa (the Eastern Province Herald), for the grave of his brother-in-law and partner, George Kemp (who died on October 15, 1852). Kemp's family objected to the lavishness of the memorial, but it was too late because the Obelisk was already aboard the Rose of Montrose and soon after ashore in Algoa Bay. The Kemp family then donated it to the city, which put it in storage. James Searle, superintendent of the Union Boating Company, handled the extremely delicate, complicated landing of the Obelisk.
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The Office of the Dead features a version of a rather unusual composition to be found in the Hours of Mary of Burgundy, Berlin showing Mary on horseback in the legend of the three living and three dead creatures. This miniature may well suggest that that book was commissioned for a woman or for someone closely related to the Duchess of Burgundy. The lavishness of the manuscript indicates that it was commissioned by a monarch. The presence of St Celedonius, St Ildephonsus and St Isidore suggest that the codex was made for a member of Spanish royalty, possibly Joanna the Mad, Queen of Castile, judging by the references to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and St Isidore.
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Seneb was a high-ranking court official in the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, circa 2520 BC. A dwarf, Seneb was a person of considerable importance and wealth who owned thousands of cattle, held twenty palaces and religious titles and was married to a high-ranking priestess of average size with whom he had three children. His successful career and the lavishness of his burial arrangements are indicative of the acceptance given to dwarfs in ancient Egyptian society, whose texts advocated the acceptance and integration of those with physical disabilities. Seneb is depicted with his wife and children in a painted sculpture from his tomb, rediscovered in 1926, that is a famous example of Old Kingdom art.Hermann Junker: Gîza V: Die Mastaba des Snb (Seneb) und die umliegenden Gräber.
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Maria Irene Celestina Marcos-Araneta (born September 16, 1960) is the third child of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and First Lady Imelda Marcos. Known as being "the quiet one" among the Marcos siblings and the only one not holding public office, her best-remembered role father's 21-year rule involved expensive events, such as her 1983 wedding to Gregorio Maria Araneta III which was said to cost US$10.3 million, and for her September 1985 party on the presidential yacht BRP Ang Pangulo, whose lavishness caused a scandal when video coverage of it came out in the wake of the 1986 EDSA Revolution. More recently she gained media attention after being tagged in the Panama Papers leak, and for triggering student protests after her attendance in various campus events.
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He would journey to Warsaw, Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Odessa like a prince, travelling in his own private rail coach with a retinue of servants and innumerable trunks containing a vast stage wardrobe renowned for its elegance and lavishness. Indeed, the composer Jules Massenet was prepared to adjust the rôle of Werther for the baritone range, when Battistini elected to sing it in Saint Petersburg in 1902, such was the singer's prestige. The industrious Battistini also appeared with some regularity in Milan, Lisbon, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Budapest and Paris (where he sang for the first time in 1907). But his many social connections in Russia, and the favour that he enjoyed with the imperial family and the nobility, ensured that Russia—more than perhaps even Italy—became his artistic home prior to the outbreak of the First World War, in 1914.
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Such figures understate the value of Australian aid, for every ton of supplies procured in Australia meant a ton that did not have to be shipped across the Pacific Ocean. This required the same shipping space as two tons of supplies shipped across in the Atlantic Ocean, the distance there being half as great. Cannan was responsible for rationing the American forces in Australia until the American Quartermaster Corps felt capable of taking over the function in 1943. When requirements to support the British Pacific Fleet were piled on top of American demands and an increasing tight Army manpower situation, Cannan protested the "lavishness and extravagance which characterised US demands whilst the Australian services' demands were being subjected to rigid scrutiny and economies", citing examples, and urged that economies be made on goods and services supplied to Allied countries.
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The extravagant costumes, which even Ziegfeld initially considered too flamboyant, were designed by Adrian, who had worked with many of the greatest actresses of the period, including Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Jeanette MacDonald, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford, and later designed for films such as Marie Antoinette (1938), The Women (1939), and The Wizard of Oz (1939). Howard Gutner documents that due to MGM's wealth and the high budget, Adrian indulged in "sheer lavishness" in making the costumes, surpassing anything he had done previously. It took 250 tailors and seamstresses six months to sew the costumes that Adrian had designed for the film, using of silver sequins and of white ostrich plumes. The costumes worn by women in the film are diverse, varying from "puffy hooped skirts to catlike leotards" to "layers of tulle and chiffron", with the men mostly wearing black tuxedos.
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After Love Never Dies opened on 9 March 2010 in London, it received mostly negative critical reviews. Perhaps the most positive review was Paul Taylor's in The Independent giving the show five stars, and writing, "What is in no doubt is the technical excellence of Jack O'Brien's seamlessly fluent, sumptuous (and sometimes subtle) production, or the splendour of the orchestra which pours forth Lloyd Webber's dark-hued, yearning melodies as if its life depended on them. Special praise should go to the lyrical lavishness of Bob Crowley and Jon Driscoll's designs, with their gilt interiors where the vegetation-imitating contours and giant peacock- plumage of Art Nouveau run rampant, and their ghostly external locations where a brilliantly deployed combination of flowing projection (timed to perfection with emotional/ rhythmic shifts in the music) and solidly presented stage- effects create a dizzying Coney Island of the mind".Taylor, Paul.
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Harbison (1997), 163 The word Kan derives from the Middle Dutch word kunnen related to the Dutch word kunst or to the German Kunst ("art"). The words may be related to a type of formula of modesty sometimes seen in medieval literature, where the writer prefaces his work with an apology for a lack of perfection,Koerner (1996), 107 although, given the typical lavishness of the signatures and mottos, it may merely be a playful reference. Indeed, his motto is sometimes recorded in a manner intended to mimic Christ's monogram IHC XPC, for example in his c 1440 Portrait of Christ. Further, as the signature is often a variant of "I, Jan van Eyck was here", it can be seen as a, perhaps somewhat arrogant, assertion of both the faithfulness and trustworthiness of the record and the quality of the work (As I (K)Can).
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Mary Magdalene announces the Risen Christ The St Albans Psalter, also known as the Albani Psalter or the Psalter of Christina of Markyate, is an English illuminated manuscript, one of several psalters known to have been created at or for St Albans Abbey in the 12th century.Rodney M. Thomson, Manuscripts from St. Albans Abbey, 1066-1235, 2 vols (Woodbridge, published for the University of Tasmania by D. S. Brewer, 1982). It is widely considered to be one of the most important examples of English Romanesque book production; it is of almost unprecedented lavishness of decoration, with over forty full-page miniatures, and contains a number of iconographic innovations that would endure throughout the Middle Ages. It also contains the earliest surviving example of French literature, the Chanson de St Alexis or Vie de St Alexis, and it was probably commissioned by an identifiable man and owned by an identifiable woman.
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Dominis, where Santa Claus had given out that he > would hold his court...A magnificent Christmas Tree had been provided...and > the little folks as they gathered about it...found it all lighted up with > candles, and the branches bending with the weight of gifts. Prompt as old > Father Time ever was, bells were heard at the windows...and in a moment old > Santa Claus stood at the door before the youthful group, who greeted him > with a volley of merry shouts. He was dressed in the garb in which children > love to imagine the saintly old elf...For an hour he bestowed his gifts with > princely lavishness among the 100 children present, creating one of the > happiest groups ever witnessed in Honolulu...who will long continue to talk > of Santa Claus of Washington Place. The tradition of opening Washington House for Christmas celebrations has continued in Honolulu for over 160 years.
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The journal's structure was loosely based on its contemporary British publication The Connoisseur, which was mainly aimed at collectors and had firm connections with the art trade. The Burlington Magazine, however, added to this late Victorian tradition of market-based criticism new elements of historical research inspired by the leading academic German periodicals and thus created a formula that has remained almost intact to date: a combination of archival and formalist object-based art historical research juxtaposed to articles on collectors’ items and private collections, enlivened with notes on current art news, exhibitions and sales.A. Burton, 'Nineteenth Century Periodicals', in: The Art Press – Two Centuries of Art Magazines, London, 1976, pp. 3–10, The lavishness of this publication almost immediately created financial troubles and in January 1905Sutton, Denys, Select Chronology--'Letters of Roger Fry ' ,Chatto and Windus, London, 1972 Fry embarked on an American tour to find sponsorship to assure the survival of the journal,C.
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Her early history of excessive spending caused her public image to be already blemished, but the Diamond Necklace Affair catapulted public opinion of her into near-hatred since she had appeared to have plotted to misuse more of the kingdom's depleting money for personal trinkets. Marie Antoinette's Execution on 16 October 1793 The Diamond Necklace Affair heightened the French general public's hatred and disdain for Marie Antoinette since it was "designed to leave the queen in a state of scandal, with the impossibility of claiming any truth for herself". The public relations nightmare led to an increase in salacious and degrading pamphlets, which would serve as kindling for the oncoming French Revolution. It could be said that "she symbolized, among other things, the lavishness and corruption of a dying regime" and served as "the perfect scapegoat of the morality play that the revolution in part became", which made her a target for the hatred of the French Republic and groups like the Jacobins and the sans-culottes.
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Just before the "mystery voice" tells the listeners the title of the subject, Humph usually announces that the team to perform it and the audience are being shown it on the "laser display screen" (sometimes described in more elaborate terms). This is, in fact, the programme's producer running on to the stage holding a large card with the title written on it — a joke only for the benefit of the studio audience (and to make listeners wonder why they laugh a moment after the words "laser display screen"). Occasionally, particularly if the apparatus has been described with more ridiculous lavishness (with terms such as "multiplex", "digitally enhanced", etc.), Humph has added another joke based on its actually being a big card by saying it has been "so generously funded by our hosts". In keeping with the nature of the show, sometimes the team giving the definition purposely make it so obvious that the opposing team pretends not to know what the title is, and has to be given numerous hints, for comic effect.
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Among the many displays of lavishness and greatness of Simão da Câmara, the present he sent Pope Leo X in 1514, thanking him for the creation of the Diocese of Funchal, is particularly notable for its inventiveness; it was recorded by chronicler Jerónimo Dias Leite. The offer was brought to the Pope by a large delegation of people dressed in dark velvet, in Portuguese fashion, led by Madeiran fidalgo João de Leiria and Vicente Martins, a canon of Funchal Cathedral who delivered a speech in Latin before the pontiff. The delegation was presented by Manuel de Noronha, a prelate in Rome (later Bishop of Lamego) and the younger son of Simão da Câmara himself. The gift was, along with an expensive Persian horse and many other products from the island, a miniature Apostolic Palace made out of sugar and real-size effigies of the Sacred College of Cardinals made in —at that time, sugarcane was the primary resource of the island's economy, as sugar from Madeira attracted Genoese and Flemish traders and flooded the major European markets.
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A popular legend claims that the Rule of Saint Benedict contains the following passage: :If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts, with a wish to dwell as a guest in the monastery, and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place, and do not perchance by his lavishness disturb the monastery, but is simply content with what he finds: he shall be received, for as long a time as he desires. If, indeed, he would find fault within anything, or expose it, reasonably, and with the humility of charity, the Abbot shall discuss it prudently lest perchance God has sent for this very thing. But if he have been found gossipy and contumacious in the time of his sojourn as guest, not only ought he not to be joined to the body of the monastery, but also it shall be said to him, honestly, that he must depart. If he does not go, let two stout monks, in the name of God, explain the matter to him.
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The diptych Agamemnon's Daughter/The Successor is considered by Kadare's French publisher, Fayard's editor Claude Durand, "one of the finest and most accomplished of all Ismail Kadare's works to date". Characterizing it as "laceratingly direct" in its criticism of the totalitarian regime, in a longer overview of Kadare's works, James Wood describes the diptych as "surely one of the most devastating accounts ever written of the mental and spiritual contamination wreaked on the individual by the totalitarian state". Wood compares Kadare favourably to both Orwell and Kundera, considering him to be "a far deeper ironist than the first, and a better storyteller than the second". As an especially good example of Kadare's irony, he points out to one of the concluding passages of The Successor's third chapter, when the almost blind Guide, led by his wife, visits the Successor's renovated home for the first time and suddenly discovers a dimmer, a novelty in Albania at the time, the lavishness of which may be treated as a possible bourgeois trait by the paranoid leader: The same passage is excerpted by James Lasdun as representative of Kadare's power to chillingly portray fear and "the reptilian consciousness" of dictators.
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