Sentences with phrase «victorian age»

Botanical fabrics that hint at the Victorian age of discovery marry well with utilitarian pieces, such as the modern wood stools and metal light fittings seen here.

Designer: Arne Jacobsen, 1955 Details: From # 349, Fritz Hansen at The Conran Shop If the antimacassared sofa defined the Victorian age,...

Even though we abandoned the strict Victorian Age more than 100 years ago, we're still terribly scared of «producing» spoiled children.

[Part 3 of 5 parts of Dr. DiFonzo's review of the Michael Grossberg book exploring a Victorian Age custody battle when common law doctrine granted full sway to a father's decisions regarding child custody and family residence.]

[Part 2 of Dr. DiFonzo's review of the Michael Grossberg book exploring a Victorian Age custody battle when common law doctrine granted full sway to a father's decisions regarding child custody and family residence.

WOA presents Part 4 of 5 parts of Dr. DiFonzo's review of the Michael Grossberg book exploring a Victorian Age custody battle when common law doctrine granted full sway to a father's decisions regarding child custody and family residence.]

There was a Romantic age, a Victorian age, a Neo-classical age, a pre-Raphaelite age.etc.

Limerick Everyone's favourite, this ya - ta - ta - ya - ta - ta - ta - ta verse was popularized — but not invented — by Edward Lear, one of the Victorian age's eccentric versifiers and artists.

I'd like a piece of tech which can turn on - off all the technology in the room in one go, plunging us into the Victorian age and then instantly back again.

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has claimed that a new clause introduced to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill by the Government has put workplace health and safety back into the Victorian age.

You guys sound like you come from some Victorian age.

John Sauven, Greenpeace UK executive director, said: «This pledge marks a turning point in the collective effort to take Britain's energy system out of the Victorian age and into the 21st century.

Hunt and Rossetti's Pre-Raphaelitism was the most significant art movement of the Victorian age in England.

Pre-Raphaelites The most important art movement of the Victorian age in England.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82), William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910), John Everett Millais (1829 - 96), and Ford Madox Brown (1821 - 93)- and later including Edward Burne - Jones (1833 - 1898)- was the most important artist group of the Victorian age in England.

Our archive starts its story in the Victorian age and moves through to Henry Moore's twentieth - century contemporaries.

He thinks we could be living through «a new Victorian age» — or at least that's his explanation for the mixed responses he's received for his gender - confusing neo-Cubist nudes, which play out sexualized fantasies in hotel rooms and surrealist swimming - pool dreamscapes, and evoke Joan Semmel's erotic works from the 1970s.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood lent its name to one of the most significant and innovative artistic movements of the Victorian age.

The lush art of Alma - Tadema is a strange fruit of the Victorian age.

Featuring graphic design, film, photography, ceramics, taxidermy, furniture, textiles and fine art, this multi-media show explores work inspired by the 19th century and created over the last 20 years, highlighting the ongoing influence of the Victorian age.

Hull's interest in Egypt stems from the ways in which Egyptian motifs, mysteries and history have been appropriated, quantified and qualified by westerners since the Victorian age.

The art of the Victorian age is not itself much in fashion, but heading back to it as a source to twist does seem to be

Set in the Victorian Age, the game is supposed to have a storyline that's both dark and Gothic, with players assuming different roles, be it monster hunter or priest, to do battle against the armies of demons.

Finally: not a resort, but an elite hotel in London: this five - star hotel in one of London's most exclusive areas overlooks Hyde Park and is shows off vintage architecture of the Victorian age.

The Egyptians worshipped them; the ancient Chinese kept them for decorative purposes; and from medieval times through the Victorian Age, people used fish to make table arrangements more attractive — though perhaps not more fragrant

The breed became established in the early 1800's and achieved prominence during the Victorian age in southern Scotland.

Recent research has shown that momentum, as an investment phenomenon, has worked for the U.K. equity market right back to the Victorian Age and for the U.S. stock market even further back to the year 1801!

The creation of cheap publishing solutions in the later Victorian age used low cost and quality inks and papers to create books on a shoestring budget.

In the book's prologue Matthew Goodman writes, «Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland were not only racing around the world; they were also racing through the very heart of the Victorian age.»

Day believes Carroll included these elements to round out the narrow education Alice would've received as a female in the Victorian age.

They were also racing through the very heart of the Victorian age.

The gas - lit glamour of the Victorian age is a frequent backdrop for stories of women struggling against oppression.

«Today's classroom looks almost exactly the same as it did in the Victorian age: a teacher standing in front of a roomful of kids with only a textbook, a blackboard and a piece of chalk,» Murdoch said.

The Victorian Web This site, created by George P. Landow, professor of English and art history at Brown University, includes information about the Victorian Age's history, sociology, art, religion, economy, and more.

At the same time, neoconservative thinkers like Gertrude Himmelfarb were extolling the much - denigrated virtues of the Victorian age.

SYNOPSIS: Based on the graphic novel by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight envisions Batman in the Victorian Age as he chases down famed serial killer -LSB-...]

The film finds Victorian age vampire Barnabas Collins loose in the late 20th century.

By the time the end of this twisty, topsy - turvy narrative has caught up with its beginning in a world of illusions and performances, nothing seems the same any more, all roles have been reversed, and the script has been rewritten several times to centre, elevate and immortalise the Victorian age's bit players.

He grunts and growls with occasional Chewbacca whinnies; he huffs like a mill owner, or like one of those steam engines of the Victorian age whose encroaching modernity makes Turner so uncomfortable.

Pictures of society clothes Dating in the Victorian Age The Unsuitable Suitor of 1879 by Heather Palmer

Having lived half a decade in Deutschland I've had my fair share of experiences — some grand, others regrettable Dating in the Victorian Age The Unsuitable Suitor of 1879 by Heather Palmer

Dating in the Victorian Age The Unsuitable Suitor of 1879 by Heather Palmer

Real tartanware pieces were produced in Scotland, beginning in the Victorian Age, and are now considered collectibles.

Yes, bicycle - riding required a shift away from the restrictive, modest fashion of the Victorian age, and ushered in a new era of exposed ankles — or at least visible bloomers — that represented such a departure from the laced up, ruffled down fashion that preceded it that bicycling women became a fascination to the (mostly male) newspaper reporters of the time.

And you can see these like, paintings of Newton saying that he got thinking about the rainbow because he was playing with his nephew and his nephew had bubbles he was playing with and it's an effort to domesticate Newton for the Victorian age so he's a recognizable person instead of this crazy, heretical monk.

The Victorian age is at its zenith and a new, powerful and monied middle class is looking for things to do with their cash.

The Victorian Age may have been a tough place to live in for those with a weak stomach or those, like me, with a finely tuned aesthetic apparatus, but at least the monsters of that time had the courtesy to declare themselves as such.

In the Victorian age the questions were mainly about how we should treat other people.

Mr Osborne will insist he is overseeing Britain's largest programme of rail investment «since the Victorian age».

I've had a very useful response to my questions about the «greatest investment since the Victorian age» from David Turner on Twitter.