Sentences with phrase «at grandeur»

You get the feeling you could spend a happy eternity marveling at the grandeur of these seemingly limitless bodies.

Architecture can stand in for absent human presence and suggest mood, whether it be awe at the grandeur of a historical monument (San Giorgio Maggiore, 1908, Private Collection), thrill at the vitality of a teeming city street (The Pont Neuf, 1871, Dallas Museum of Art), or loneliness at the solitude of the clifftop cottage (The Douanier's Cottage, 1888, Fogg Art Museum, USA).

Property Location With a stay at Grandeur Hotel in Dubai (Al - Barsha - Tecom), you'll be convenient to Mall of the Emirates and Ski Dubai.

As you proceed further onto the junction of Central Ratchadamnoen Avenue and Dinso Road, marvel at the grandeur of Corrado Feroci's towering creation at the traffic roundabout.

Enjoy lunch at The Empire, a grand landmark hotel, which hints at the grandeur of Queenstown's past.

It's great to wonder at the grandeur and glory of the universe, the childlike wonder, the Stephen Jay Gould wonder, the Einsteinian wonder.

«I know that his enthusiasm and extensive expertise will push The Deck at Island Gardens to the forefront of Miami's world - class dining scene and provide a sneak peek at the grandeur of Island Gardens once completed.»

After God had created the animals, all the essential roles had been filled, but «the Divine Artificer still longed for some creature which might comprehend the meaning of so vast an achievement, which might be moved with love at its beauty and smitten with awe at its grandeur.»

in response to someone landing a difficult trick doesn't, of course, mean that the flip or spin made you gasp at the grandeur and majesty of the universe, but it does make you want to tap the person next to you and say, «Check that out!»

Not exact matches

So seek out opportunities to feel dwarfed by something much bigger than yourself and your problems, such as gazing at the night sky, hiking through inspiring landscapes, reading up on the mysteries and grandeurs of physics, or even checking out an awe - inspiring YouTube video if you're stuck at your desk.

Recognize, on the other hand, that within the domain of our experience man is at the head of one of the two greatest waves into which, for us, tangible reality is divided, and that therefore he holds in his hands the fortunes of the universe: and immediately you cause him to turn his face towards the grandeur of a new sunrise.

The grandeur of the river is revealed not at its source but at its estuary.

A terrible week with evidence of religious exceptionalism, stupidity, incompetence, lying, dumping responsibility at every level including the highest, and folie de grandeur.

All these spiritual reserves, guessed at and faintly apprehended, what are they but the sure evidence that creation is still on the move, but that we are not yet capable of expressing all the natural grandeur of the human mission?

These films were in stark contrast from Scorsese's work at the time, the character study of a live - at - home, celebrity - obsessed comedian with delusions of grandeur in King of Comedy and the «one crazy night in Soho» comedy After Hours — both of which met tepid results.

Daniel J. Mahoney is Associate Professor of Politics at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachussetts, and the author, most recently, of DeGaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern Democracy (Praeger 1996).

What if I just want to be glad that I'm in the kingdom, and sit there at the entrance, staring at all the beauty and grandeur?»

It is a thought not without its grandeur that a unity begun on the mission field may extend its influence and react upon us at home and throughout the older civilizations.

We scoff at the commonplace in the process of reaching for a grandeur we're convinced it lacks.

«The grandeur of politics» — a phrase that probably draws either amazed incredulity or harsh guffaws — is from George F. Will's Statecraft as Soulcraft, first presented as his Godkin lectures at Harvard.

There is a sort of morose, doom - fraught grandeur about it all that at times becomes positively enthralling.

When the Anglican patristic scholar and Church historian Trevor Jalland concluded his Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1942 (published in 1944 as The Church and the Papacy: A Historical Study), he spoke of the Roman Church as having «in its long and remarkable history a supernatural grandeur which no mere secular institution has ever attained in equal measure,» and went on to refer to «its strange, almost mystical, faithfulness to type, its marked degree of changelessness, its steadfast clinging to tradition and to precedent.»

There's no better time to take in the twinkling lights and seasonal grandeur than during a festive feast at the hotel.

After they would stand in wonder as Tomás would turn his back and delicately wander away, both utterly exposed and serenely at peace with the grandeur of demise.

DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR The Mets» Kevin Elster isn't happy about being platooned at short.

Typical week for Wenger I'd say: Poor results, having a pop at the fans, no remorse for his actions, delusions of grandeur, claiming Arsenal are still in a title race, disputing a crucial goal (claims of a foul on Bellerin for Alonso's goal have been quashed from all quarters), and so on, and so on!

At 67 he may be suffering from early signs of delusions of grandeur!

This self deluded man, with delusions of grandeur, when he has not a prayer, in reality, even of delusions of adequacy, is psychiatrically unfit to manage, at all.

While all West Ham's owners in my lifetime have demonstrated an absence of true ambition, the current board, somehow, manage to combine this with contrary delusions of grandeur; at least in their public utterances.

Take in the grandeur of Gloucester Harbor at the Dog Bar Breakwater.

North Wales and the Brecon Beacons provide height and grandeur at one end, and a more gentle sense of haunting mystery at the other.

Similarly, the grandeur of Manchester town hall, which will again play host to events at Labour party conference, seems to recall a time when the city was more certainly in command of its future.

«The study has the grandeur of providing a big picture of the advent of farming and how this shift from hunting and gathering to food production had a crucial impact on the evolutionary history of Europe, East Africa, India and Central Asia,» says Carles LaLueza - Fox, a palaeogeneticist at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, Spain.

But its founders, Weiss and Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), had no idea of such grandeur when they first met in a Washington, D.C. hotel room in the summer of 1975.

I love nature, do not cease to marvel at its beauty and grandeur.

And if you ever feel my coaching advice could tip you from a 9 to a 10, I would be honored at the privilege of facilitating your grandeur!!.

Highly attuned to the terrifying grandeur of its milieu, it discovers, at every turn, a wondrously frightening new sight to behold, none greater than that of Ben Mendelsohn's bandit leader Payne emerging from, and disappearing into, the wild landscape while wearing a big bearskin coat.

In plunging a child into the horrors of war, Spielberg treads the same ground as in Empire of the Sun — but this time, the childlike wonder at the destruction, the grandeur of war, are nowhere to be found.

Herzog naturally plays up the enigma at hand with epic grandeur, occasionally overdoing it but usually hitting the mark.

At times, Blood, feels like a slightly - filled - out television police procedural with better cinematography, but the performances have an almost Shakespearean grandeur.

In general, like «Cartel Land,» this has a cinematic grandeur to it, but at the same time, you must've had to have been as inconspicuous as possible with the equipment.

Keeping track of all those units in the heat of battle is no easy burden, and illusions of grandeur will quickly deflate after a few attempts at blindly throwing troops into a well fortified enemy position.

Such grandeur came at a high cost.

It's exactly the clever jab at 21st century vanity this franchise should own; instead, with its delusions of comedic grandeur, it turns into the same navel - gazing that its satire has been designed point out.

His Reynolds has a rather tarnished, aging grandeur, with a fragility that's almost infantile; his odd, somehow puckered voice, which seems at times to be emerging from a vintage Bakelite radio, is not so much feminine as somehow ancient, the sound of a mummified soul that could crumble to dust if exposed too brutally to the noise and fuss of the world.

However, this becomes unsettling at times and loses some of the grandeur that could have been captured.

And the ensemble pieces - from the opening «Look Down» to «At the End of the Day» to «Do You Hear the People Sing» - the grandeur of what you would find on stage really comes out on these huge numbers.

Presented in 2.35:1 widescreen and enhanced for 16x9 television, the transfer does an overall exceptional job at displaying the grandeur of 17th century Venice, although there are a few moments of fuzziness.

Eventually, «Jeff, Who Lives at Home» lands in a place of grandeur, human scale, but grand nonetheless.

(And I haven't even mentioned the framing narrative, which features an impossibly wizened Tonto telling his story to a young boy at a carnival in 1933 San Francisco...) Yet there's a certain goofy grandeur to the movie's first half or so.