Sentences with phrase «laurel crowns»

«Behold these spiny stalks and toothy leaves,» declare the herbaceous brood in a post-emergent flamboyance, «Look on our caps and laurel crowns of seeds!»

The dance sequence is key to understanding what probably happened in the film, as it's so deeply stupid and self - contradicting that you can only think the screenwriter (David Leslie Johnson (Orphan)-RRB- had it one way and Hardwicke thought it would be cooler - looking all, y» know, heathen - y and shit with masks and a laurel crown on a wolf's head and stuff.

But that doesn't mean that you should wait for Apollo to come down from Olympus and award your manuscript a laurel crown before you can publish it.

«Bronze Emperor in the laurel crown, with the scepter in one hand and Orb in the other, stands in the center of Paris on the top of his colossal Vendome column as if a reminder to which extent he was clinging stubbornly during his life to the insane idea to keep Europe in his hands.

The Canadian developer tackles Roman history this time, placing the laurel crown atop players» heads as they fight through the highlights of Caesar's career: Bridging the Rhine, conquering some Gauls, invading Brittania a little - whatever went on between orgies.

Not exact matches

Another connection is possible, I think, one that draws upon the Attic tradition of crowning the victor of the Pythian games with a laurel wreath and, more likely still, its Christian acception, symbolizing death's defeat in Christ.

But the word used for «crown» is stephanos, which can also refer to a «reward» or «laurel wreath.»

Those who reflect insufficiently find it peculiar that people suffer the oppression of this kind of sovereign with docility and patience, that they do not open their eyes to the vices and excesses of the clergymen who degrade them, and that they endure from a head that is shorn what they wold not suffer from a head crowned with laurels.

The Triple Crown differs from other sporting laurels, in that we don't know whether it will be conferred in a given year — or a given lifetime.

Of course, as a Yank, Paulson would like to win the Preakness and the Belmont Slakes and all the laurels that go to the winner of the American Triple Crown.

So the jury is still out on this one, but a truly biodegradable PUL diaper would certainly be yet another laurel in the #makeclothmainstream crown!

«If I was BONO I'd be driving around Dublin in a chariot with a laurel leaf crown.»

Now we can add yet another laurel to the crown of America's Sports...

This is why I was so pleasantly surprised when Louise Rennison's laugh - out - loud novel Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging was crowned with laurels when it copped a Printz Honor Award.

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We stood in the middle of the loft in a circle and these very uncomfortable Austrian gentlemen in their business suits crowned her with a laurel wreath and opened a bottle of champagne, with plastic glasses.

She could easily rest on her laurels and congratulate herself on the accomplishments she has already racked up, including a seven - year stint as a search and rescue airframe technician in the Canadian Armed Forces; a journeyman carpenter working in commercial concrete and steel; a successful sales rep for the past six years with Re / Max of Nanaimo; and one of her crowning achievements to date: multiple national champion powerlifter in her class and ranked among the top five in the world.