" Dong said loftily, "I caught it in a well pond.
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The drugs giant talks loftily about "embracing our responsibility to society".
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Antitrust legislation, which has been discussed loftily by progressive Democrats, might save other businesses from Facebook.
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LOFTILY as they may disdain the profit motive, Britain's judges are, on a national level, money-spinners.
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Opportunities for significant gains were largely confined to a small number of broadly-loved (and loftily-valued) companies.
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But most importantly, Blanc loftily points out, Marta has a weakness that others do not have: She cannot lie.
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Around 1915, a young New Yorker who loftily called herself Beatrice Van Rensselaer Adams started visiting him at the hospitals.
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"Of the part of solitude that it implies, and of the end of innocence that it announces," Mr. Macron added loftily.
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In 2018, the senior SoftBank executive Rajeev Misra loftily predicted the business could one day be worth as much as $100 billion.
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In 2014, the Republican Congress passed the loftily named Ukrainian Freedom Support Act, which permitted the sale of lethal weapons to Ukraine.
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If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
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Zuckerberg's speech in Thursday mentioned none of this — instead talking more loftily about how the Iraq war apparently influenced his approach to free expression.
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No longer is he the guy who speaks loftily about policy but cannot deliver results; now he has proved that he can produce the votes.
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Madness, in my admittedly limited experience, is accompanied by no superpowers; being mentally unwell doesn't make you loftily intelligent any more than having the flu does.
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In his departure speech on Saturday morning, Mr Jammeh loftily said he would submit "only to the judgement of Allah, whose judgment is above and beyond man".
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The track is an exploration of texture through a series of layers forged from feedback and loop pedals, culminating in an abrasion that loftily swells and recedes.
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And while many of his proposals remain unrealized — loftily promised futuristic cities have yet to materialize — the crown prince's obsession with technology has wrought some significant changes.
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The electronic scooter would not only revolutionize foot traffic, he loftily promised, it would eventually do to the car what the car did to the horse-drawn buggy.
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It struck me as funny at first: Coal and guns being elevated to the status of platonic ideals or, even more loftily, the refrain of a bad country song.
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The point of the Decency Collective groups and ones like it, to put it loftily, is to amplify progressive messages, counter conservative messages, and recruit and organize others around the cause.
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Thus, his speech will not "be remembered as the beginning of peace in the Middle East," as he loftily put it, but rather a boost to the war that is ravaging it.
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Assuming the role of patrician citizen, frock-coated Schoelcher takes a loin-clothed, unidentified slave by the shoulder with one arm; his other extends into the air, loftily gesturing the way to freedom.
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He was a devoted practitioner of the high style, committed to a loftily intellectual sense of the poetic vocation, with an encyclopedic range of historical and literary references embedded in syntactically knotty lines.
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Umm Abdou wanted to start a women's rebel army; he deterred her by pretending to see a mouse under the sofa, reminding "you woman", as he loftily called her, how easily terrified she was.
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The end result could well be a statement that speaks loftily of a complete foreign-force withdrawal and the noble goal of a political solution, followed by few if any changes on the ground.
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In Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un's grandfather and father are on similar display in the loftily named Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, a monument to the cult of personality that surrounds North Korea's ruling family.
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Its director, Elisa Montgomery, may speak loftily about "the intersectionality of marginalized groups," but she is passing through Hays's life like a tourist, gawking at 35 years of dead ends, bad breaks and unfortunate lapses in judgment.
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A YEAR ago, as a young freshly elected president eager to look the part, Emmanuel Macron summoned a joint sitting of both houses of parliament in the former royal palace at Versailles, and spoke loftily of grandeur and destiny.
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So far it has suited Mr. Corbyn, a longtime Euroskeptic, to stay on the fence, loftily opposing all of the Tories' proposals and declaring that if only Labour were in power, it could magically achieve a better Brexit deal.
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At the primary school in Ghanghu, a village in a desert landscape where camels nibble loftily at thorn-tree branches, children sit in the "Mindspark lab"—a bare room with tablets on desks around the walls—doing sums, playing learning games and watching videos.
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My aunt's droning was unbearable, but I may already have understood that the zone she was inhabiting was itself unbearable, and that talking loftily about nothing, non-stop, was how a person might survive in it; how, indeed, she might enable a visitor to survive in it.
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In 2018, a senior SoftBank executive loftily predicted the business could one day be worth as much as $100 billion, highlighting how investors charged with oversight of the company were helping build the buzz that has since come crashing down as the company's plans to go public go off the rails.
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These learned men loftily managed to compromise on most issues (though closing their eyes to others, like the slave market practically across the street) while enduring the clatter of horse-drawn traffic outside their windows and the noise of insatiable spectators cracking nuts in the public gallery of the House of Representatives.
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In 2007 Mr Obama proclaimed loftily that "this campaign must be […] the vehicle, of your hopes, and your dreams […] This campaign has to be about reclaiming the meaning of citizenship, restoring our sense of common purpose, and realising that few obstacles can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change".
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Read more Box-office preview: Michael Bay's Benghazi movie '13 Hours' could be politically divisive Despite the well-conveyed sense of danger that seems to lurk down every street (some of Bay's best work comes in multiple scenes of vehicles becoming trapped by would-be enemies), suspicious characters seen photographing the Yank facilities and the well-known proliferation of competing gangster and/or radical Islamist factions, official American naivete about such matters prevails from the outset; the CIA, led locally by a hard-headed, by-the-book chief (David Costabile), loftily proclaims that, "There is no real threat here," while Ambassador Stevens (Matt Letscher) arrives to make a ludicrously optimistic speech about future prospects.
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A man, said Piper loftily, should take his losings without squealing.
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A grilled gate leads to the basement. Two flights of stairs above this gate lead to a roofed colonnaded terrace. This portico was rebuilt in the 18th century. The great door in the middle, surrounded by a tiled green arch, leads to the vestibule and then to a loftily domed court.
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Tianxin Pavilion stood loftily on the city wall was not immune from the fire. The fire rose up around the main building of Tianxin Pavilion. In less than one hour, Tianxin Pavilion was engulfed by the fire. The big fire burnt for five whole nights and five whole days, from the city wall of Tianxin Pavilion, there were dozens of meters of broken walls and debris everywhere which was miserable.
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This modern architecture structure houses the central market and an underground archaeological complex. The terrace roof is a city viewpoint. The Plaza de España, in Maria Luisa Park (Parque de Maria Luisa), was built by the architect Aníbal González for the 1929 Exposición Ibero-Americana. It is an outstanding example of Regionalist Revival Architecture, a bizarre and loftily conceived mixture of diverse historic styles, such as Art Deco and Neo-Mudéjar and lavishly ornamented with typical glazed tiles.
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A pair of glazed timber doors with brass handles and kickplate and an elaborate fanlight over opens onto the main business chamber. A dogleg terrazzo stair, which extends to the roof level, has a timber handrail and decorative wrought iron balustrade. The walls in the stairwell are lined with black and yellow ochre coloured tiles. The loftily proportioned business chamber retains many original fittings and finishes including timber paneling, timber counters with marble tops and timber and glass screens.
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Through his wealth, Audley was able to buy and invest in land. He bought the manor of Ebury, in Westminster, from Lionel Cranfield, the first Earl of Middlesex. Deeply in debt, the Earl sold it cheaply, but had a negative opinion of Audley himself, whom he described as "barbarous", with "looks [that] show his disposition", and one who bore himself "loftily respectless and peremptory". The property later passed through his great- grandniece, Mary Davies, wife of Sir Thomas Grosvenor.
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The kitchen possessed a large and very low arched fireplace. The hall occupied the whole of the first floor, with light entering from the four sides. The hall differed from the great majority in Scottish castles, the ceiling having been flat and low instead of the usual loftily arched form. It is evident from the existing plans of the second floor that it had been divided into two apartments by a light partition starting from between the doors of the two garderobes in the south wall.
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The following sentence is an example which matches the first fifteen digits of : > How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving > quantum mechanics! The following Pilish poem (written by Joseph Shipley) matches the first 31 digits of π: :But a time I spent wandering in bloomy night; :Yon tower, tinkling chimewise, loftily opportune. :Out, up, and together came sudden to Sunday rite, :The one solemnly off to correct plenilune. A full-length Pilish novel has been published, which currently holds the record of the longest Pilish text with 10,000 digits.
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The king having shown marked displeasure, the bishop wrote to the pope a letter of the same import, but Pope Alexander VII made no reply. The obstinate Arnauld then wrote to Péréfixe, Archbishop of Paris, to forestall the tempest which the obligation of signing the Formulary would arouse at Port-Royal. At the same time he encouraged the religious to resist or take refuge in subtleties. Arnauld was one of the four prelates who in 1665 loftily refused to sign the Formulary of Alexander VII, and issued a mandate against it.
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Fairburn, Vol. 5, pp. 3315-3316. Some of the largest vessels built at the Southard yard, constructed between 1875 and 1879, were the full-rigged ships Charles Dennis--"a good-looking and loftily-spired ship" of 1,710 tons; Eureka (2,101 tons); Red Cross (1,300 tons) and Theodore H. Allen (1,537 tons).Fairburn, Vol. 5, pp. 3316-3317. Of these, Eureka in particular was an "outstanding" ship: the largest Maine-built vessel at time of construction, she later made several fast passages around Cape Horn or across the Atlantic.
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Hurricane had a "gracefully" rising bow and rounded stern, with a heavy brass rail running around the poop deck. The bow was decorated with a "very handsome" eagles head, which had a ribbon flowing from its mouth upon which was inscribed the ships name in gilt letters, the whole creating "a very novel appearance". Hurricane was loftily sparred and fitted with rolling topsails, with her name emblazoned across the lower part of the foretopsail in large black lettering "that could be read much further than any signals and looked very smart and shipshape." Overall, she was described as a "truly beautiful ship".
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In The Daily Telegraph, Gerard O'Donovan found that in the second episode, > There is such a dearth of decent human beings in The Secret Agent (BBC One) > that it makes for a deeply uncomfortable viewing. Set at the precise point > where political idealism and terrorism intersect, it features such cynicism > at its core that, even 109 years since it was published, it feels utterly > contemporary. Revolutionaries are portrayed as egoists and mad men. The > concern for humanity loftily expressed by radicals and idealists is depicted > as rarely extending beyond concern for themselves, let alone that of the > ordinary man in the street.
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Up until now seven voyages have taken place and, each time, we have commanded several tens of thousands of government soldiers and more than a hundred oceangoing vessels. We have...reached countries of the Eastern Regions, more than thirty countries in all. We have...beheld in the ocean huge waves like mountains rising sky-high, and we have set eyes on barbarian regions far away, hidden in a blue transparency of light vapors, whilst our sails, loftily unfurled like clouds, day and night continued their course, rapid like that of a star, traversing those savage waves.
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The General Archive of the Indies, is the repository of extremely valuable archival documents illustrating the history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and the Philippines. The building itself, an unusually serene and Italianate example of Spanish Renaissance architecture, was designed by Juan de Herrera. The Plaza de España in the Parque de María Luisa (María Luisa Park) was built by the architect Aníbal González for the 1929 Exposición Ibero-Americana. It is an outstanding example of Regionalist Revival Architecture, a bizarre and loftily conceived mixture of diverse historic styles, such as Art Deco and lavishly ornamented with typical glazed tiles.
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Neither as colourful as the Polish rebellions nor as loftily enshrined in national memory, the quotidian methods of organic work proved well suited to the political conditions of the late 19th century. The international balance of forces then did not favour the recovery of Polish statehood, and both Russia and Germany appeared bent on the eventual eradication of Polish national identity. The German Empire, established in 1871 as an expanded version of Prussia, aimed at the assimilation of the eastern provinces inhabited by Poles. At the same time, St. Petersburg attempted to russify the former Congress Kingdom and joined Berlin in levying restrictions against use of the Polish language and culture.
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Neither as colorful as the rebellions nor as loftily enshrined in national memory, the quotidian methods of Organic Work proved well suited to the political conditions of the later 19th century. The international balance of forces did not favour the recovery of statehood when both Russia and Germany appeared bent on the eventual eradication of Polish national identity. The German Empire, established in 1871 as an expanded version of the Prussian state, aimed at the assimilation of its eastern provinces inhabited by Poles. At the same time, St. Petersburg attempted to russify the former Congress Poland, joining Berlin in levying restrictions against use of the Polish language and cultural expression.
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If there is parody in the Satyricon it is not about the main characters—Encolpius, Giton and Ascyltos—but of the described social reality, and the literary genres of certain famous poets and writers, Homer, Plato, Virgil and Cicero included. Petronius's realism has a Greek antecedent in Aristophanes, who also abandoned the epical tone to focus on ordinary subjects. The Satyricon was widely read in the first centuries of the Common Era. Through poetry and philosophy, Greco-Roman literature had pretended to distance itself from everyday life, or to contemplate it loftily as in history or oratory. Petronius rebelled against this trend: (“There is nothing as blatantly false as unconvincing statements made by men and nothing as blatantly unconvincing as their fake seriousness” —section 132).
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Parkin continues: :As if to make secure its newly-won respectability, professorial Marxism has, in the manner of all exclusive bodies, carried out its discourse through the medium of an arcane language not readily accessible to the uninstructed. Certainly no-one could possibly accuse the Marxist professoriate of spreading the kind of ideas likely to cause a stampede to the barricades or the picket lines. Indeed, the uncomplicated theory that has traditionally inspired that sort of extra-mural activity is now rather loftily dismissed as 'vulgar' Marxism – literally, the Marxism of the 'common people'. This is not necessarily to suggest that the new breed of Marxists are less dedicated than the old to the revolutionary transformation of society; their presence at the gates of the Winter Palace is perfectly conceivable, provided that satisfactory arrangements could be made for sabbatical leave.
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Although he has a tomb in China, it is empty since he was buried at sea. Zheng He led seven expeditions to the "Western" or Indian Ocean. Zheng He brought back to China many trophies and envoys from more than thirty kingdoms, including King Vira Alakeshwara of Ceylon, who came to China as a captive to apologize to the Emperor for offenses against his mission. Zheng He wrote of his travels: > We have traversed more than 100,000 li of immense water spaces and have > beheld in the ocean huge waves like mountains rising in the sky, and we have > set eyes on barbarian regions far away hidden in a blue transparency of > light vapors, while our sails, loftily unfurled like clouds day and night, > continued their course [as rapidly] as a star, traversing those savage waves > as if we were treading a public thoroughfare....Tablet erected by Zheng He > in Changle, Fujian, in 1432.
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