Sentences with phrase «aristocrats who»

This was the point discussed in the previous post — the UK's self - appointed climate aristocrats who want $ 150 billion to make wind and solar power economically competitive with coal.

The Council is about a private island populated by aristocrats who were invited there by Lord Mortimer, the owner of the island.

And this time round your targets are not such a push over, while Assassins Creed 2's targets were all overweight aristocrats who couldn't pick up a sword without slicing off their own pinky Brotherhood has Cesare.

, the chapel of the aristocrats who owned the 16th century palace in past ages.

Historically, many of these pampered pooches were cherished by the aristocrats who used them as lap and feet warmers.

Army Group Center is an enclave of Prussian aristocrats who have owned the Wehrmacht almost as long as they've owned their baronial estates, an officer class whose families have been intermarrying for generations.

ROLE: The titular Miss Julie, daughter of Irish aristocrats who gets mixed up in sex and class politics with her father's valet.

Sokurov's ark not only contains an immense wealth of art (still only a fraction of it's holdings), but countless true - to - history aristocrats who walk the decadent halls, transcending time to intermix with spiritual visitors in traditional ceremonies, modern gallery gazing, an all out ballroom celebration, and everything in between.

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.

The Sadducees, aristocrats who wished to stand in with the Roman authorities, were probably in most cases well - to - do as well as influential, for they controlled the temple worship and hence the temple riches.

(This is why I have started investing heavily in dividend paying stocks — dividend aristocrats who pay set amounts consistently, regardless of their stock price.)

This rye - and - bourbon duo is named for a Bourbon aristocrat who raced horses in the Kentucky Derby during the late 19th century and popularized the Old Fashioned cocktail.

David Hollinger, professor of American intellectual history at Berkeley, suggests in Science, Jews, and Secular Culture that secularized Jews wanted to promote the reputation of a Yankee aristocrat who was so emphatically non-Christian.

In a Frederick Wiseman - ish way, some of his subjects appear for only a single brief scene, while some recur throughout, and they're certainly a broad selection: an aristocrat who hires his family home out for film shoots, paramedics, an eel fishermen, some transsexual prostitutes, and a man trying to stop insects from destroying palm trees.

The movie follows an aristocrat who, after becoming a paraplegic following a paragliding accident, hires an unemployed man with a criminal record to be his caregiver.

Alan Cunningham is a wealthy aristocrat who has a penchant for torturing and murdering redheads that resemble his dead wife Evelyn.

Jessica Chastain stars as the titular character, a sensual young aristocrat who boldly pursues a sexual relationship with her father's handsome valet, played by Colin Farrell.

It stars Nicolas de Gunzburg (a Russian aristocrat who bankrolled the film, appearing under the alias Julian West) as an occult - obsessed young man who visits a French village haunted by a vampire.

Pike will play Lina Heydrich, an aristocrat who was married to Heydrich and reportedly introduced her husband to the Nazi ideology.

Kind Hearts And Coronets — Quite silly dark comedy with Dennis Price playing a wanna - be aristocrat who kills off all the relatives ahead of him in line for his dukedom.

It also gives Melrose a post-Imperial flare, as Patrick wrangles with his father's legacy as a wastrel aristocrat who came of age in the Jazz Age and held some, um, colorful views of the world.

Sarandon plays Granny Rags, a blind and half - crazy former aristocrat who now lives on the streets of Dunwall, the city in which the story of Dishonored takes place.

But he is depicted as far from the mellow aristocrat who made his fortune even after dropping out of the prestigious Reed College and traveling to India in 1974 to study Buddhism.

One day, Franz Creutzstein (an aristocrat who hates anyone with the name Ludwig) canes Ludwig Beethoven in the ear which causes internal bleeding.

His name is La Rochefoucauld, Robert de La Rochefoucauld, and his career as a résistant in Nazi - occupied France is the subject of Paul Kix's The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando.

The Duke of Slut refers to a type of hero commonly found in historicals — the sexy aristocrat who never met an actress, dancer, courtesan or mildly attractive and consenting woman he didn't then immediately sleep with.

The Kandy House is the former home of a Sri Lankan aristocrat who committed an act of «decadent defiance» by building himself a palatial villa using roof tiles, which at the time were decreed only for royal residences.

Set in late 18th century England, we follow the story of Lady Cornelia Darkmoor, a beguiling young aristocrat who masquerades as the notorious highwaywoman, Shadowhand.

Cyril is dashing aristocrat who comes from a famous family.

JACQUELINE DE RIBES: THE ART OF STYLE A Parisian aristocrat who served as a muse to Yves Saint Laurent and Valentino, but also ran her own design business, gets a retrospective.

Four old master paintings left to the National Gallery by a Dutch aristocrat who died in 2015 will this week go on public display.

They were subsequently passed to an exiled Russian aristocrat who claimed his family had owned the works prior to the Bolshevik revolution.

This tale of fin - de-siècle decadence tells the story of the Duc Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric aristocrat who recoils from the manners and values of conservative Parisian society and flees to the countryside to immerse himself in art collecting and exotic fetishism.

Brown's version, which is called The Marquess of Breadalbane and was unveiled yesterday in London, replaces the stag with a distorted image of the eponymous aristocrat who commissioned the original painting dating from 1851.

A favorite of Oscar Wilde and the decadent poets, it tells the story of an aristocrat who retreats from society to the seclusion of a mountain villa and his prized art collection.

Among the works included in the exhibition: Katharina Fritsch's Still Life 7 (2017), in which a statue of St Aloysius, an Italian aristocrat who renounced his wealth and took a vow of chastity and poverty, is joined with an over-sized apple, a strawberry, and a seashell, which for Fritsch are female symbols, on a specially made pedestal.

The Scotsman article says: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Aristocrat-admits-tale-of-lost.3340554.jp «A SCOTTISH aristocrat who claimed he was forced to sell his ancestral pile after losing a fortune on a $ 1 million puzzle has admitted that he invented the story to boost sales.

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It's about a young, poor artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) who falls in love with an aristocrat destined for another suitor (Kate Winslet) on the doomed Titanic ship.

For investors who aren't focused exclusively on rising dividend income, the Dividend Aristocrats are still attractive because their total returns have also been very strong.

But he's inherited the means to live like an aristocrat (which he sort of does — not needing to work and taking off as he pleases) but without taking responsibility for who he is.

That God, who rewards the wealthy landed aristocrats with riches and long lives and curses the poor, is the butt of a merciless lampoon that issues from the outraged sensitivities of a writer who has acutely observed how the oppressed and infirm suffer undeserved evil at the hands of the powerful and rich.

The good stuff in question mostly concerns a mysterious aristocrat named Alexandra (Sigourney Weaver), who is consorting with a lot of the leftover villains from the other shows and is clearly up to something, though the show is mighty cagey about what.

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

The elite Ohanaeze represents the political aristocrats, who had been part and parcel of the gravy since 1960; and after the Civil War — faithful collaborators with the Northern power elite, which IPOB now lampoons.

An «election» could, however, include a situation like that surrounding the adoption of the Magna Carta or the assembly of representatives of the various estates that was convened by the monarch shortly before the French Revolution in which the franchise is quite limited (e.g. limited only to aristocrats, or to elders, or to clergy, or to members of a political party, or to members of a particular tribe or caste, or to a council of leaders of tribes or castes) who are not all members of the incumbent's extended family and whose appointment was not primarily within the control of the incumbent as a practical matter.

The National newspaper said the list included friends of Prince William, aristocrats and leading business figures who collectively donated about # 650,000.

I tried this idea out recently on a British aristocrat, who replied, in a horrified tone, «No.

The head in question had belonged to the French aristocrat and chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, who was executed at the hands of French revolutionaries on -LSB-...]

Rita and Roddy have a reverse Han Solo / Leia thing going, with Jackman playing the uptight aristocrat needing help from Winslet's roguish loner, who captains a floating bucket of bolts that is more seaworthy than it looks.

Helen Hunt plays Mrs. Erlynne, the «woman of ill repute» who leaves New York under a cloud to join the vacationing aristocrats and nab fresh prey.