Sentences with phrase «great panoply»

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Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

According to him, «It gives me even greater pleasure that the throne of Ooni as an institution has assembled a panoply of eminent personalities from all over the world to the ancient city of Ile - Ife, nay our state.

Aregbesola who described the throne of Ooni as institution that has successfully assembled a panoply of eminent personalities from all over the world to the ancient city of Ile - Ife, in Osun State expressed greater pleasure in the fact that the ancient town has tremendously lived up to the legend of the spot where creation began.

Wiseman listens raptly as a panoply of docents decode the great canvases of Da Vinci, Rembrandt, and Turner; he visits with the museum's restorers as they use magnifying glasses, tiny eye - droppers, scalpels, and Q - tips to repair an infinitesimal chip; he attends administrative meetings in which senior executives do (polite) battle with younger ones who want the museum to become less stodgy and more welcoming to a larger cross-section of the public.

The screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber («Paper Towns»), based on the novel by Kent Haruf, accentuates the little moments; there's a great, extended shot of Addie and Louis, a panoply of emotions crossing both their faces as they wordlessly drive home the morning after they've had sex for the first time.

Brisk, clean, blessedly bright, a great Katz can dominate a room like a freeway billboard, and at the same time serve up a panoply of painterly satisfactions.

John Wesley (American, b. 1928) Four Prints from Panoply: 8 Silkscreen Prints Inspired by the Splendors of The Great War, 1971, edition of 125, published by Abrams Original Editions, New York.