All were both technical tours de force and repositories of entire realms of spiritual belief.
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Mr. Early's recent shows at the Bell House were tours de force of musings, music and mirth.
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The wall behind the checkout counter is decorated with a pair of sailfish, tours de force of taxidermy.
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" He added: "In short, the histories trapped in the work are what warm up the optical tours de force.
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And Vargas Llosa has published so many novels — 18 in all — that the tours de force can get lost among the mediocrities.
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Washington (CNN)Next week marks the anniversaries of twin American tours de force that liberated and rebuilt Europe, enshrining an unprecedented era of peace and freedom.
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Her surfaces are tours de force of color, pattern, and design, and beg the question of whether her work is painted sculpture or painting on sculpture.
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My main course choices are tours-de-force — never something like a spiral-cut ham, but dishes that require a crowd's appetite and offer a varied spread of ingredients.
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But even with SpaceX's recent technological tours de force, getting to Mars in 2018 would be a huge, quick leap for a company that has yet to leave Earth's neighborhood.
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After he crossed the line, he swore that the noise in the stadium matched the incredible din of his 2012 tours de force when he won the 10,000m and 5,000m here.
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Taking as its motto a line from Wagner's "Parsifal" — "Here time becomes space" — the concert linked fragile chamber performances and flashy orchestral tours de force spanning 400 years of music history into a riveting narrative.
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And when chaos comes, "Curious Incident" renders it in harrowing, meticulously detailed tours de force, whether the setting is a London subway or the room at home in which Christopher uncovers a cache of letters he didn't know existed.
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Jon Hendricks, a jazz singer and songwriter who became famous in the 21973s with the vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross by putting lyrics to well-known jazz instrumentals and turning them into vocal tours de force, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.
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Before Bach went to Leipzig, in 1723, he had been contentedly ensconced in Cöthen, some forty miles to the northwest, where a music-loving prince elicited such instrumental tours de force as the first book of the "Well-Tempered Clavier," the English Suites, and the music for solo violin and solo cello.
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A reviewer for The New York Times commented that Matsunaga composes in "various stylistic idioms, including Latin-tinged numbers [...] gentle ballads [...] and swinging tours de force".
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Stuever, Hank (November 10, 2009). "Tours de force: Shows plumb truths of war", The Washington Post. Conklin says that he was "very pleased with how it all came together". In January 2010 Conklin was again honorably discharged from the Army.
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They took turns writing so they could monitor each other's progress. As the two alternate there are shifts in perspectives, though the overall theme of "traceability" persisted. The general tone has been described as charming, innocent, and sometimes funny. Smith's chapters have been said to demonstrate more honesty and vulnerability, while MacKinnon's were more "show pieces, little tours de force".
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Robbins Landon (1976:602); for the tune see Robbins Landon or online. Robbins Landon notes that this finale one of the longest in the London Symphonies. He calls it "one of the great tours-de- force, formally speaking, of Haydn's career: the creation of a long movement on a single theme in which our interest never flags; on the contrary, it is a Finale of unusual tension and strength."Robbins Landon (1976:602–603) Rather unusually for Haydn,Robbins Landon (1976:602) he altered the fourth movement after it was completed, removing 13 bars fairly close to the end.
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His analytical observations of the Conservative antagonist were characteristic > The physical energy with which this election speech was delivered was > certainly very remarkable for a man in his seventy-fourth year. There is, > however, unmistakeable evidence of pumping up in the Premier's > (Beaconsfield's) latest oratorical feats. The vigour is spasmodic, the > strength artificial, and the listener has a feeling that at any moment a > spring may break, a screw go loose, and the whole machinery come to a sudden > stop. Caricature of Henry Lucy, by Kate Carew Remarking upon the Liberal counterpart's performance in the chamber he sensed that > Gladstone's tours de force are perfectly natural.
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It was also a forum in which students were expected to test and sharpen their philosophical wits. It was clear in these seminars that Rhees was not only devoted to exegesis of one of the finest thinkers of the twentieth century, but was, in fact, constantly absorbed in developing his own profound insights in Philosophy in repeated tours de force. He was self- effacing of his capacities and had to be persuaded to accept an honorary professorship at Swansea where he had previously turned down promotion during his teaching career. Gravestone In 1966 he took early retirement from the university to devote more time to editing Wittgenstein's works.
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Paulette del Baye performed as "La commère au bois" in the revue at the Moulin Rouge in 1904. "Paulette del Baye est une comédienne fine, une chanteuse spirituelle, une danseuse exquise, qui fait de véritables tours de force d'art en souriant," said one report about the revue."La revue de Moulin Rouge" Paris qui chante (11 December 1904): 2, 6. She created the role of "Zézé" in Vous n'avez rien a declarer? (1906) at the Théâtre des Nouveautés,Maurice Hennequin & Pierre Veber, Vous n'avez rien a declarer? Pièce en trois actes (Paris 1906). via Internet Archive and also appeared in Les plaques de l'Année (1906) in Paris."Les plaques de l'Année" La Revue Théâtrale (March 1906): 1356.
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Keys of various sizes for winding up mainsprings on clocks Ansonia Co. 1904 Often power for the device is stored within it, via a winding device that applies mechanical stress to an energy-storage mechanism such as a mainspring, thus involving some form of escapement; in other cases, hand power may be utilized. The use of wheels, whether linked by friction or gear teeth, to redirect motion or gain speed or torque, is typical; many clockwork mechanisms have been constructed primarily to serve as visible or implicit tours de force of mechanical ingenuity in this area. Sometimes clocks and timing mechanisms are used to set off explosives, timers, alarms and many other devices.
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Named intarsiatore to the Habsburg granducal court, by 1780 Maggiolini in his turn was able to commission from Piermarini a new façade for the Church of Saints Gervasio and Protasio in his natal Parabiago, and from Albertolli its internal redecoration. Maggiolini's characteristic furniture consists of commodes and chests, coffers and writing-desks and tables, inlaid with a wide varietyEighty different woods is the conventionally quoted number. of European woods and exotic woods imported from abroad, used in their natural colors or tinted green, like blue or rose. Cartoons for execution in marquetry were provided by artists such as Levati and Appiani, and panels of pictorial marquetry were produced purely for displays as tours de force.
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According to Gerri Hirshey: "Title agreed upon, Solomon added the trappings: a crown, a scepter, a cape, robe, dancing girls, and colored lights." Burke's crown was an exact replica of "the crown jewels of London" and the cape was trimmed with real ermine. Burke, whose shows were tours de force of riveting soul and unashamed hokum", "ticked every box from low comedy through country pleading to the kind of magisterial rock'n'roll that brought the house down",David Hepworth, "Farewell to a Heavyweight From the Golden Age of Soul", The Independent (October 11, 2010). and he "became known as much for his showmanship as he did his voice. He would often take the stage in a flowing, 15-foot-long cape and bejeweled crown, his stage theatrics predating those of such legendary showman as James Brown.
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This is called aird-rinn in Irish, as: : Fall'n the land of learned mén : The bardic band is fállen, : None now learn a song to sing : For long our fern is fading. This metre, which from its popularity must be termed the "hexameter of the Irish", is named Deibhidhe (D'yevvee), and well shows in the last two lines the internal rhyme to which we refer. If it be maintained, as Thurneysen maintains, that the Irish derived their rhyming verses from the Latins, it seems necessary to account for the peculiar forms that so much of this verse assumed in Irish, for the merest glance will show that the earliest Irish verse is full of tours de force, like this aird-runn, which cannot have been derived from Latin. There were two kinds of poets known to the early Gael.
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For the first ten years before Vienna's English Theatre acquired its permanent home, she played the female lead in every production except two. Among them were multiple roles in The World of Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, as well as the four ladies in Thornton Wilder's Queens of France. She also played the Lady in Shaw's Man of Destiny, Doris in The Owl and the Pussycat, Miss Prism in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, and Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, which subsequently toured throughout Israel. At the Josefsgasse opening, Brinkmann starred in Terence Rattigan's In Praise of Love, and when Spoon River was revived - with Ruth Brinkmann playing 22 different roles - the American Journalist Nino Lo Bello wrote in the Los Angeles Times that "she has just wrapped up another of her 'tours de force' successes".
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When conducting opera, Bottesini would frequently bring his double bass on stage during the intermission to play fantasies on the evening's opera. His fantasies on Lucia di Lammermoor, I puritani and Beatrice di Tenda are virtuosic tours de force that are still popular with those who are highly accomplished on the instrument. Bottesini wrote three operas besides those previously mentioned: Il Diavolo della Notte (Milan, 1859); Vinciguerra (Paris, 1870); and Ero e Leandro (Turin, 1880), the last named to a libretto by Arrigo Boito, which was subsequently set by Luigi Mancinelli. He also wrote The Garden of Olivet, a devotional oratorio (libretto by Joseph Bennett), which was produced at the Norwich festival in 1887, eleven string quartets, a quintet for string quartet and double bass, and many works for the double bass, including two concertos for solo double bass, the Gran Duo Concertante (originally) for two double basses, Passione Amorosa for two double basses, numerous pieces for double bass and piano, and an instructional book ("Complete Method for Double Bass").
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