Sentences with phrase «as midsummer»

In North America there's a tendency to call the summer solstice the «first day of summer»; but, as the Guardian points out, in Europe it's celebrated as midsummer's day — which, when you think about it astronomically at least, makes more sense.

And as the midsummer sun set over Peckham, those that hadn't left by the prescribed hour looked set to settle in for cocoa.

Gnoli was well - received in his too - brief lifetime as a theater set designer in Rome, and Carsen's affinity for the Italian artist's enigmatic, Surrealist - inflected work is evident in his own concepts for such productions as A Midsummer Night's Dream, which has traveled the world since its premiere in Aix - en - Provence in 1991.

Though I'm old now, crabbed and near - blind, my memory is long as a midsummer's day and with my inner eye, I see clear.

Already a veteran director, having made such classics as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Story of Louis Pasteur, and Juarez at Warner Bros., Dieterle was hardly one to take lessons from Orson Welles.

Despite a plethora of Bay's usual flourishes (casual sexism, ridiculous premises, gratuitous slow - motion shots of guys climbing out of choppers), The Island actually succeeds as a midsummer diversion.

The best place to get started is to try an online dating agency such as Midsummer's Eve.

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By midsummer, a month in advance of product arriving on retailer shelves, Spin Master planned to build buzz by reaching out to tech writers and mommy bloggers, and on social media — Pinterest, Facebook as well as through a dedicated website.

As Dr. J. S. Whale exclaims, «If water might suddenly freeze in midsummer; if the specific gravity of lead might at any time become that of thistledown; if pigs might fly or the White House turn into green cheese — man's life would be a nightmare.»

By midsummer the herb garden is flourishing with them as well as basil, rosemary, thyme, cilantro, dill, sage, mint, lavender and oregano.

My husband's MBA graduation, a Midsummer picnic out of town, picking berries and freezing them for special treats as the weather cools down, the majority of dinners eaten outside on the patio, and plenty of writing, recipe development, and recipe testing to keep me inspired — I can't complain.

While some regions start to see peaches as early as May, here in the Northeast the season starts in midsummer (the cold, late spring doesn't allow early fragile peach blossoms to set).

Midsummer — also known as the summer solstice, June 21, or the longest day of the year — is celebrated across Scandinavia but especially enthusiastically in Sweden.

By midsummer you could plainly see Leo Durocher leaping and pivoting at shortstop when Brooklyn played Cincinnati in the first televised major league game, inaugurating a new era in baseball and perhaps a new era in ham acting as well.

The midsummer call for arms is as predictable a part of the season as the trading deadline itself.

The three short pieces feature «SouthSide Sailor Scouts» (think: Beyonce - meets - Selena - meets song, dance and stories), Peter Carpenter's «Rituals of Abundance for Lean Times # 7: Divisions of Labor» (one part humorous and two parts conversation starter) and The Hypocrites» «Midsummer Dream» (a retelling of Shakespeare's most popular comedy as told by four actors, who also double as production designers).

To the Globe Theatre, as we diarists say, with my daughter Georgia and her friend Rosie for an enjoyable production of A Midsummer Night's Dream on a perfect summer evening.

(It could be argued that Shakespeare also linked synesthesia, in a broader form, to meaning: Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, describes his dream as being indescribable because «The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen... what my dream was.»)

Carbon dioxide concentrations will probably drop below 400 ppm by midsummer, as the vast forests of the Northern Hemisphere leaf out fully and begin breathing it in.

I feel the fabrics of this outfit balance out well for day and evening in midsummer as the ribbed knit maxi skirt keeps you warm whilst the top lets your skin breathe a little without it being too chilly.

We had a pretty long weekend of holidays as Finnish people have a celebration called Midsummer and that's when 90 % of the country «moves» to their summer cottages with their families and friends and have a big get together, grill feast and they burn so called Midsummer fire We didn't this celebration, but instead we went to visit our friends to have a playdate with kids, indoor picnic and also went to check out the little fishes in our much loved Sea Life.

Midsummer's Eve is renowned the world over as being the most romantic night of the year.

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Chef Daniel has bought two Michelin stars to Midsummer House, and as such it is one of the finest dining experiences Britain has to offer.

In pursuit of a dramatic career, Zea subsequently moved to the Big Apple, where she enrolled in the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and built a solid foundation as a theatrical player in such off - Broadway productions as Chekhov's The Three Sisters and William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Miscast as Puck in «A Midsummer Night's Dream» (1999), Tucci bounced back as producer, director and star in «Joe Gould's Secret» (2000).

He recently wrapped the film CADAVER and can also be seen in Julie Taymor's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT»S DREAM, as well as FORBIDDEN LOVE and FORT GREEN.

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And the opening is a doozy: Legendary director Julie Taymor is mounting a new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring Homeland's David Harewood as Oberon (through Jan 12, $ 20 and up).

The film stars Academy Award ® nominee Jessica Chastain (Best Actress, Zero Dark Thirty, 2012) and Golden Globe ® winner Colin Farrell (Best Actor, In Bruges, 2009) as lovers mixed up in the madness of a midsummer night.

The story goes as follows; on the eve of Midsummer's Night, in a famous Baron's castle, three people contend with escalating passions, desires, and prejudices on subjects of love, lust, and class.

But as best I could follow, the idea is that de Vere first writes and performs a version of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the late 1550s or early 1560s, when he is a prepubescent boy.

Strange Magic re-imagines Shakespeare's «A Midsummer's Night Dream» as an animated fantasy musical about two fairy princesses, Marianne (Evan Rachel Wood) and Dawn (Meredith Anne Bull), who are each promised to a suitor they don't really love.

A film without surprise geared toward maximum comfort and familiarity, The Emperor's Club is bound to garner some fans for its easy solutions and broad topics (like any other populist soaper, I guess) but, like Hoffman's own version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (which saw Kline as its highlight), it's possessed of a peculiar rootless malaise.

Here are some excellent titles chosen by our film critic, recently available for home viewing: Miss Julie The heat is rising on Midsummer's Eve, 1890, on an Irish country estate as the lovely, Home Movies / Out On Digital

The heat is rising on Midsummer's Eve, 1890, on an Irish country estate as the lovely mistress of the manor (Jessica Chastain) thrusts herself at the handsome footman (Colin Farrell).

This is the most imaginative Shakespeare film in years, as we await Julie Taymor's wonderful unreleased A Midsummer Night's Dream.

A Shakespeare action figure with a removable quill sits between a full - text edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the manga version of As You Like It.

As I browsed Lois Burdett's revised version of A Midsummer Nights Dream, I tried to picture her grade 2 students performing this Shakespearean play.

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Midsummer Night's Dream Assembly This version of A Midsummer Night's Dream is directed, as a school assembly, by William Shakespeare's own son, Hamnet.

A SOW focusing on some key scenes from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, including activities where students reimagine part of the film as a science fiction.

We are using it in our Junior Literature class this semester as a supplement to what is being done in the high school classes and preparing our younger students to attend a production of «A Midsummer Night's Dream» at Southside Enrichment for Language Arts and History, Homer Glen, Illinois.

The better cooling results in higher engine output in hot conditions and at low speeds, such as when sitting in midsummer traffic.

But scooping up a dirty, empty - eyed skull along with the rich bottomland soil, having it leer at him in that white blast of midsummer sunlight was enough to have 233 - pound Billy scream like a girl and leap down from the machine as nimbly as a dancer.

You are ten years old, and the midsummer air is warm, oppressively warm, so humid and uncomfortable that even as you sit in...

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell makes a dramatic departure with this enthralling, action - packed standalone novel that tells the story of the first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream - as related by William Shakespeare's estranged younger brother.

There's no cacophony — it being midsummer and high noon — but he can hear the thin, come - hither whistle of a phoebe from the woods in front, the fish hawk mewling as it circles high above the point.

Some Shakespeare plays, like «A Midsummer Night's Dream» might fall into this genre as well.

And so where earlier Europeans identified May Day and Midsummer Night as the festivals most connected with passion, the Christian world focussed on the day of the saint of the pierced heart.