Sentences with phrase «english aristocrat»

Designed by its owner — an English aristocrat, Villa Gajah features many modern facilities inside a large and open - planned living and dining pavilion with several self - contained structures and customized interiors that set new standards for private villas in the area.

Hugh Grant also delivers a familiar performance as St Clair Bayfield, an English aristocrat posing as a gentleman.

Mia Wasikowska plays Edith Cushing (yes, we see what you did there, Guillermo), an independent young writer in turn - of - the - century New England who allows herself to be wooed and won by Tom Hiddleston's dashing but down - at - heel English aristocrat Thomas Sharpe.

She isn't the most complex of baddies, but she looks fabulous in her range of black catsuits and her chandelier - shaped headgear, and Blanchett relishes playing her as a bored, drawling, English aristocrat.

In it, an English aristocrat travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough - hewn local and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited.

For many years she is the wife of an English aristocrat, Lord Justin Portman.

Benevolent English aristocrats willing to liquidate ancestral wealth to keep the green and pleasant land from going under?

In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept «ornamental hermits» for their gardens.

As soon as the dogs were in England, English Aristocrats saw them.

Says Bronstein: «There was a real industry in the falsification of history and the falsification or works of art and they were there, really, to con English aristocrats out of a great deal of money.»

Not exact matches

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

It acquired so fashionable an aura among 18th - century British aristocrats that it became known as The English Malady.

An historical palace now a five star luxury hotel — this is the place to escape into the old world 18th century world of decor where the English grand tour was conducted by the aristocrats of England.

From the aristocrat to the beggar, via the banker, the taxi driver and the Middle English housewife, everyone had an opinion.

Following the current divorce case of Aristocrat Michael Villiers and his estranged wife Emma, arguing whether this should be settled in an English or Scottish court.