Sentences with phrase «as stately»

We often think of a colonial as stately and symmetrical with an orderly arrangement of windows around a central front door.

However, there is a distinct possibility that people may live in them, says Miller Hendry, which points to inhabited buildings such as stately homes and converted churches as examples.

«Another concern is with private property owners living in a place that used to be, or perhaps still is, a landmark or cultural destination, such as stately homes, churches and converted buildings.

The King Mini Suite features the amenities of the standard superior room, as well as a stately separate seating area or parlor included in the 750 sq. ft. floor plan.

It has been since beautifully restored, with 90 elegant guestrooms and suites that boast high ceilings and large windows, allowing an abundance of natural light to fill the room, as well as stately décor, rich indigenous textiles and plush furniture.

There are topics of general interest such as English and Scottish soccer, premiership football teams, patriotic songs, Christmas carols, the monarchs of Britain and the history of British towns and cities and others more specific such as stately homes, churches and cathedrals, hymns and Bible Study.

Though many architectural details remain, such as the stately stone fireplace, the furnishings have a relaxed, modern feel, thanks to natural - fiber rugs, glass - topped tables and striped upholstery.

The 2014 Mercedes - Benz C - Class coupe offers competitive power and luxury for thousands less, while the 2014 Mercedes - Benz E-Class convertible serves as a stately alternative to the Audi S5 Cabriolet.

Burnished, noble of countenance, as if specifically designed as a stately ornament for the gardens of Lombardy, he resembles the Roman statues that the professor studies — one of which, in a scene of euphoric calm, is hauled up from the waters of Lake Garda to the rippling accompaniment of a John Adams piano piece.

Featuring Patrick Warburton as stately narrator Lemony Snicket and Neil Patrick Harris clowning around as the nefarious Count Olaf, it's a family - friendly caper with some nifty tricks up its sleeve, designed to introduce the story to a new generation of fans whilst retaining those who have loved the books for the past 18 years.

As befitting his directorial portfolio and his on - screen presence, Clooney's fifth helming effort unravels as a stately but jovial affair, though one set against the most tragic of backdrops — and always cognisant of that fact.

Whatever the veiled motives of the Commission, the drift towards the final «main gate» decision to renew Trident - now just two years away - seems as stately as it is assured.

In short, constitutional discourse today appears both as a stately expression of reason and as the shabby antithesis of anything that could plausibly be called rational.

The surrounding area is just as beautiful as the stately brick hotel, since the Appalachian Trail is nearby.

Not exact matches

Courtyard, for instance, opened as a no - frills alternative to classic stately Marriott resort, appealing to travelers who don't desire a full pampering.

But as the farmer goes about the task of raising wheat, he finds the most beautiful of flowers springing up in odd corners; he notices for the first time a grove of stately trees.

But another nearby locale has emerged as a national platform for such skirmishes: the stately campus of Georgetown University, the country's oldest Roman Catholic college.

Early reviews of Melvin Urofsky's Louis D. Brandeis: A Life (Pantheon, 955 pages, $ 40) have described the book as «magisterial,» «comprehensive,» even «stately.»

One can almost see the stately procession of those oriental women, dignified as queens, in the peace of the oriental evening coming down the slope from the little city, each with her graceful water - jar on her shoulder, while around the tree - sheltered well lie the ten great hulking beasts still saddled with their baggage and gaudy with the beads and trinkets that camel - drivers have always loved.

Esther, like Moses, was unable to live long in stately comfort (as Moses was unable to live in Midian obscurity).

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!

Cupcakes can be cute and fanciful or dainty cakes, as decadent and stately as miniature Sachertortes.

14 - Thornton Winery The impressive French - Mediterranean setting of the Thornton estate, Temecula Valley's original sparkling wine producer, includes stately indoor venues as well as the Fountain Terrace with vineyard views.

The Watergate Hotel boasts 336 stylish guestrooms, including six exquisite Diplomat Suites, 24 premier suites and two stately Presidential Suites, as well as 27,000 square feet of flexible meeting and event space, including a brand new ballroom and 10,000 square feet of outdoor terraces overlooking the Potomac River.

Together, they will make the room feel stately and your home as stylish as it has ever been.

THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — The stately solar system of today was in turmoil in its first several million years, theorists believe, with giant planets sowing chaos as they strayed far from their current orbits.

Gould and Eldredge challenged the traditional view of Darwinian evolution as a gradual, stately unfolding.

I hoped that encountering them up close would resolve a question I've long harbored: Why do we, as animals, uproot ourselves rather than maintaining the stately fixity of trees?

Salt is no longer the evil villain lurking on your table next to the stately and proper pepper (known as the master spice).

It's been quite a while since we posted a home on here that I would describe as «stately», but this home is just that.

Basically the fashion of maxi is originated from European countries or is known as Western trend but some fashions have probably faded the stately borders so now this fashion trend is getting adopt by people of countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and India with the amendments of not having long leg cuts.

In traditional bedrooms, deeper shades of blue create a stately backdrop for antiques and classic furnishings, as well as artwork.

A single hurricane looks stately and fine, and they look beautiful when arranged in different heights and sizes as a centerpiece.

Also very colorful, this stately turkey planter will be snatched up quickly from my booth as they are quite popular (cost: 50 cents, value: $ 12 - 15.00).

From stately gay bars to some of the best museums anywhere in the country, we have compiled a list that includes only the cream of the crop, so keep your reading glasses on as you get ready to absorb some serious date advice.

Dotted with colourful houseboats and oftimes lined by magnificent stately homes head East towards Camden; if you're lucky you might even catch sight of the hyenas and birdlife as you wander through Regents Park and London Zoo — all for free!

With Keith David again serving as narrator, and Jamie Foxx providing Robinson's voice reading correspondence and from his autobiography, Jackie Robinson exudes class — unhurried, stately, yet never dull.

As the once - stately Hogwarts is nearly reduced to dun rubble and Voldemort and his legion are advancing, it's seldom been clearer just how deeply British this story's roots are.

Emergency medical workers cover their noses in disgust, as clearly the stately place is permeated by something foul.

And, in many ways, the film's biggest drawback is the very real sense, as the film progresses at its stubbornly stately pace, that we are being subjected to the self - indulgence of a supremely talented but unbridled director.

The building's elegantly restrained colonial architecture, the gray sky, the stately camera movement and music all convey an austere gravity, which, together with Schrader's use of Academy ratio (inspired, he has said, by Pawel Pawlikowski's «Ida»), point us back not only to an earlier era of American religion but also to such European cinema models as Bergman's «Winter Light» and Bresson's «Diary of a Country Priest.»

As is, Red Sparrow is a stately B - movie, enlivened by committed performances and striped with florid streaks of brutality.

Well - meaning portrait of intolerance concludes as grand tragic melodrama, executed with a stately beauty in somber colors.

(Hans Zimmer's score is a witty pastiche that includes some choice»70s - style chopsocky riffs as well as more stately pseudoclassical swatches.)

The fourth season of «Downton Abbey,» which follows the lives of the family and servants living in an English stately house, will include newcomers Paul Giamatti as an American relation and opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa.

«Schrader works in a stately, dark - toned style that's far more compelling than the frenetic genre hash of his last two films, «Dying of the Light» (2014) and «Dog Eat Dog (2016),» Variety opined in a review, coming into «First Reformed» as a summation of Schrader's work: «Paul Schrader pours all his obsessions, from Robert Bresson to pulp violence, into a grindhouse art film you can't stop watching.»

Branagh made his name with the stately prestige of Shakespeare, both as an actor and director, but he's dabbled in this kind of splashy, effects - laden spectacle before with 2011's «Thor» and last year's «Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.»

Fonda, as his longtime wife, Hilary, gathers her grown children around her in the family's stately, traditional home in a leafy, New York suburb.

It could easily play as a monster movie or a modern horror movie, with the haunted tension of a supernatural story like The Orphanage mixed with the big, stately action of Pacific Rim.

Few of those places have drawn as much attention as the iconic «blue house,» a stately two - story home built in 1935 and impossible to miss in the Sacramento neighborhood known as the «Fabulous Forties.»