Sentences with phrase «great crown jewel»

Wim Wenders is enjoying a retrospective tour that features a great crown jewel: the director's 5 - hour preferred cut of his road movie Until the End of the World.

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The best companies have always known that it takes just short of forever to build a great brand and only a few highly - visible boo boos to jeopardize the crown jewels.

The stock surged 30 percent on Nov. 19, when it announced the discovery of the diamond, second in size only to the Cullinan diamond cut into the Great Star of Africa gem in the British Crown jewels.

It was cut to form the Great Star of Africa and the Lesser Star of Africa, which are set in the Crown Jewels of Britain.

«And obviously the Riverwalk... is one of the crown jewels of our community and extending it to reach further into that part of town I think is a great thing.

JUST 600 metres away from the Great Barrier Reef, the jewel in Australia's crown, a less spectacular but more ancient reef has been discovered.

Work can often be the great missed opportunity to practice mindfulness, awareness, and compassion in everyday life — which is the jewel in the crown of the meditation tradition.

Here's the bottom line: In a season that has delivered and still promises great movies, «Star Trek Into Darkness» will be a crown jewel.

And yet, there's something undeniably irritating about someone remaking An American Werewolf in London, one of the greatest horror movies of all time and the crown jewel of writer / director John Landis «career.

Regarded among the world's greatest inns, the Williamsburg is the crown jewel of the Colonial Williamsburg hotels, offering luxurious accommodations adjacent to the country's most celebrated live interactive history museum.

From the Crown Jewels, visit the Royal Apartments, the Great Hall, and the Scottish National War Memorial.

Kids will love seeing the Crown Jewels, the Great Hall, Mons Meg, and the views of the city.

This is one of the primary reasons Campbell River is such a great place to visit, we have numerous parks including the crown jewel of the province - Strathcona Provincial Park encompassing 250,000 hectares of supreme wilderness.

Some of our favorite family - friendly options include seeing the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London; touring awe - inspiring Westminster Abbey to learn about some of England's greatest monarchs, poets and scientists; coming face - to - face with mummies at the British Museum and dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History; visiting Harry Potter sites such as the London Zoo and Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station; taking a ride on the London Eye for spectacular views over the city; seeing the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace; sampling sweets and treats galore in the food halls of Harrods; riding a double - decker bus; and browsing one of the best toy stores in the world.

Hosting the Scottish Crown Jewels, you can find out more of Scottish history in its grandiose Great Hall and the barracks that may be haunted by the ghosts of angry prisoners.

Today, visitors have the opportunity to examine the crown jewels as well as explore the great hall and the royal palace.

Palma de Mallorca is the crown jewel of the island and offers up some great historical sights as well as a booming nightlife.

The game is great fun both in single - player and multiplayer and adds another, somewhat slightly tarnished, jewel to Housemarque's crown.

#IDARB: By far the jewel in the Xbox One's crown as far as local multiplayer is concerned, this four - on - four eSports - fueled chaos-fest lets you customize everything from the players and teams to music and «hashbomb» settings, and the result is simultaneously a great pick - up - and - play game and something with some serious bite.

Super Mario Bros. 3, in its own right, remains one of the greatest platformers ever made, one of the crown jewels of 8 - bit gaming, and one of the finest games to don the Mario name.

The result of that effort is a 180 - page report released today called «CREATENYC: A Cultural Plan for All New Yorkers,» which aims to reorient the city's cultural life toward neglected corners of the five boroughs by bringing the arts to previously ignored neighborhoods and pushing some of the jewels in the city's cultural crown to make a greater effort towards getting residents of those neighborhoods through their doors.

Calling digital legal tender the «jewel in the crown» of the fintech industry, Qian argued that it would have a great impact on the future of finance.

Full Microsoft Office support is the jewel in the crown of the Surface which along with the keyboard makes it a great tool for productivity, but whether that is enough along with the other notable features to warrant recommending over the iPad or the Asus Transformer Infinity we are not so sure.